Senior HCI Upgrade Migration Engineer

JOB DESCRIPTION
We are seeking a highly skilled Senior HCI Upgrade Migration Engineer to lead enterprise scale Hyperconverged Infrastructure modernization initiatives. The successful candidate will be responsible for planning, designing, executing and supporting HCI platform upgrades, migrations and lifecycle management activities across production environments while ensuring minimal business disruption.

The role requires extensive experience in HCI technologies, infrastructure transformation, migration methodologies, virtualization platforms, storage systems, security controls and operational governance.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead end-to-end HCI upgrade migration and transformation projects across enterprise environments
  
• Assess existing HCI infrastructure and develop upgrade and migration strategies
  
• Plan and execute hardware refresh, firmware upgrades and software lifecycle management activities
  
• Perform HCI cluster expansion, consolidation and migration between data centres or cloud connected environments
  
• Develop detailed migration runbooks, rollback plans, testing procedures and cutover strategies
  
• Lead infrastructure discovery, dependency mapping, risk assessments and impact analysis activities
  
• Coordinate migration activities with application, network, security, server and business teams
  
• Ensure platform stability, performance and availability throughout upgrade and migration activities
  
• Provide Level 3 support during migration windows and post-migration stabilization phases
  
• Prepare technical documentation, architecture diagrams and implementation procedures
  

REQUIREMENTS
Technical Skills Required:

HCI Platforms:

• Nutanix AHV
  
• VMware vSAN
  
• Azure Stack HCI
  
• Dell VxRail
  
• HPE SimpliVity
  
• Cisco HyperFlex
  

Virtualization Technologies:

• VMware vSphere
  
• ESXi
  
• HyperV
  
• Virtual Machine Migration
  
• Cluster Management
  

Infrastructure Technologies:

• Windows Server
  
• Active Directory
  
• DNS/DHCP Services
  

Storage Technologies:

• SAN/NAS Integration
  
• Backup & Recovery Solutions
  

Migration & Upgrade Activities - Strong hands-on experience in:

• HCI cluster upgrades
  
• Hypervisor upgrades
  
• Firmware and BIOS upgrades
  
• Hardware refresh programs
  
• Storage migrations
  
• VM migrations
  
• Data center migrations
  
• Platform modernization
  
• Capacity expansion
  
• Disaster Recovery validation
  
• Patch management and lifecycle operations
  

Security & Compliance Expertise:
The candidate should demonstrate strong understanding of:

• Infrastructure security hardening
  
• CIS benchmark compliance
  
• ISO 27001 controls
  
• Vulnerability assessment and remediation
  
• Security patch management
  
• Access management and RBAC controls
  
• Privileged access management
  
• Backup and ransomware protection controls
  
• Audit and compliance reporting
  
• Change management governance
  
• Business continuity and disaster recovery controls
  

Required Experience:

• 8+ years of Infrastructure and Data Center Operations experience
  
• 5+ years focused on HCI platforms upgrades and migrations
  
• Proven experience delivering large-scale HCI transformation projects
  
• Strong understanding of virtualization, compute, storage and networking technologies
  
• Experience working in regulated enterprise environments with strict change management controls
  
• Customer-facing experience managing critical migration and upgrade programs