principal vmware to nutanix migration architect
quantoriPrincipal VMware-to-Nutanix Migration Architect
We are looking for a Senior VMware migration expert with proven hands-on experience migrating enterprise environments from VMware to Nutanix or similar platforms. This is a contract/consulting opportunity, starting with an initial 4–8 week strategic engagement, with the potential to extend into the delivery phase and longer-term technical leadership. You’ll support a large US enterprise client in shaping and validating the migration strategy, identifying risks, and recommending practical solutions based on real-world migration experience. This is a high-impact, client-facing role combining deep technical expertise, architecture, and strategic consulting.
Location:
Quantori is an international team: we have colleagues who work not only from office but also remotely from all over the world.
Responsibilities:
- Act as a technical SME during client workshops, discovery sessions, and architecture discussions.
- Provide expert guidance on VMware-to-Nutanix migration strategies, architecture, tooling, and best practices.
- Review and validate proposed migration approaches, assumptions, timelines, and delivery models.
- Identify technical risks, dependencies, potential bottlenecks, and mitigation strategies.
- Advise on workload assessment, dependency mapping, migration wave planning, cutover, and post-migration validation.
- Recommend approaches for minimizing downtime and operational risk during migration.
- Evaluate migration tooling and opportunities for automation and high-volume migration.
- Contribute to effort estimation, delivery planning, and migration team design.
- Present and explain technical recommendations clearly to client architects, infrastructure leaders, and other stakeholders.
- Share practical experience and lessons learned from previous enterprise migration projects.
What we expect:
- Extensive hands-on experience with VMware vSphere environments, including vCenter and ESXi.
- Strong understanding of VMware infrastructure, networking, storage, and enterprise virtualization operations.
- Proven hands-on experience with VMware migrations, ideally VMware-to-Nutanix.
- Strong knowledge of Nutanix or comparable VMware-alternative platforms and their migration approaches.
- Experience with workload assessment, dependency mapping, migration wave planning, cutover orchestration, and post-migration validation.
- Ability to identify real-world migration risks and recommend practical solutions based on previous experience.
- Experience designing, implementing, or reviewing migration strategies for enterprise-scale environments.
- Ability to discuss specific migration projects you have personally worked on, including your role, scale, approach, challenges, and lessons learned.
- Strong client-facing and communication skills, with the ability to explain complex infrastructure topics clearly and confidently.
- Comfortable working with ambiguous requirements and helping turn them into a realistic technical and delivery approach.
Nice to have:
- Deep hands-on experience with Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), AHV, Prism Central, AOS, and Nutanix Move.
- Experience with large-scale migrations involving 2,000+ VMs.
- Experience designing or operating a migration factory or other high-volume migration model.
- Previous experience with Nutanix Professional Services, VMware Professional Services, or a similar infrastructure consulting organization.
- Nutanix and/or VMware certifications.
- Experience automating migration activities using PowerCLI, PowerShell, Python, or infrastructure automation frameworks.
- Experience leading migration architecture workstreams or providing technical oversight to migration engineering teams.
We offer:
- Competitive compensation
- Remote or office work
- Flexible working hours
- A team with excellent tech expertise
If you don't see an open position that suits your skills stack and/or professional background but you are interested in working with us — please send your CV to career@quantori.com. We will try to find something special and interesting for you!