Sr Hyper-V Virtualization & Infrastructure Engineering
2 days ago
Jersey City
Senior Infrastructure Engineer(OpenShift Engineer / Architect) — Hyper-V Virtualization & Infrastructure Engineering Jersey City, NJ(Day 1 Onsite) Contract Job Description We're looking for a talented, senior engineering professional ready to take their career to new heights at one of the world's most influential companies. You will engineer and operate enterprise-scale Microsoft Hyper-V virtual infrastructure across global data centers. You will apply depth and breadth of knowledge across multiple domains — hypervisor platforms, storage, networking, clustering, performance engineering, and security compliance — to deploy, optimize, and maintain virtual infrastructure that supports tens of thousands of workloads across multiple regions. This role sits within the Compute Engineering team, which owns the full lifecycle of virtual infrastructure: hypervisor deployment and upgrade, cluster operations, performance engineering, storage optimization, workload management, and compliance remediation. A separate hardware engineering function handles server certification, firmware lifecycle management, and hardware lab validation. You will collaborate closely with hardware engineering — evaluating hardware BOMs for performance characteristics specific to Hyper-V and providing technical feedback — but your primary focus is the virtualization platform layer and above. You will work across Windows Server and Hyper-V clustering, storage subsystems, and automation tooling — maintaining and extending a custom .NET-based workload management platform as needed. You will provide stewardship to other engineers through technical guidance, peer review, and design documentation. Experience with Hyper-V at enterprise scale is a strong differentiator. Job Responsibilities Architecture & Systems Design • Design and maintain Hyper-V cluster architectures including failover clustering, live migration, storage configuration, and network topology across global data center pools., • Evaluate hardware BOMs proposed by hardware engineering for Hyper-V performance characteristics — processor/memory ratios, storage throughput, network bandwidth, and overcommit suitability — and provide technical feedback to inform procurement decisions., • Audit performance of complex virtual infrastructure across the full stack — compute, storage, networking, and hypervisor layers — and maintain architecture artifacts (high-level design documents, decision records, diagrams) using firmwide tooling., • Develop and document reference architectures and best practices for Hyper-V cluster deployment, storage configuration, and workload placement. Coding • Create and maintain automation for virtual infrastructure lifecycle management — provisioning, configuration, patching, compliance enforcement, and decommissioning of Hyper-V workloads — using PowerShell, WMI, and the team's .NET-based workload management platform., • Write PowerShell scripts for host configuration management, inventory collection, cluster operations, and firmware deployment across the Hyper-V fleet., • Maintain and extend the existing C# / .NET 8 workload management platform as needed — including the server-side orchestration API, distributed worker engine, and Windows client agent components., • Provide stewardship to other engineers in support of quality delivery — peer reviewing automation scripts, infrastructure designs, and technical documentation. Automation & Continuous Delivery • Advocate for and implement infrastructure automation, identifying opportunities to automate, combine, or simplify operational processes with a focus on scalability versus resource use., • Develop and maintain automation for Hyper-V host configuration, cluster provisioning, rolling upgrades, and compliance enforcement using PowerShell DSC, scripts, and the team's workload management platform., • Support and evolve CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure automation tooling, including multi-environment deployment and automated testing. Distributed Systems Design & Development • Plan and execute Hyper-V cluster upgrades, Windows Server rolling upgrades, and hypervisor patch rollouts across production environments with zero or minimal downtime., • Troubleshoot production issues across the virtual infrastructure stack — hypervisor, clustering, storage, and networking layers — using structured logging, event tracing, performance counters, and vendor diagnostic tools., • Consider all risks, potential environmental impacts, and FinOps implications when designing and implementing infrastructure changes. Data Fluency • Identify appropriate data sources and apply appropriate methodologies when making data-based recommendations for capacity planning, performance optimization, and hardware procurement decisions., • Conduct storage and compute performance benchmarking using industry and internal tooling (e.g., elbencho, VMFleet, diskspd) to validate hardware configurations and inform deployment decisions., • Deliver against defined SLOs and SLAs; track and reduce events leading to errors or risks. Cross-Functional • Collaborate with hardware engineering on server platform evaluation, providing Hyper-V-specific performance requirements and validation feedback., • Collaborate with vendor partners (Microsoft) on Hyper-V roadmap alignment, feature adoption, and escalation support., • Collaborate effectively across infrastructure engineering, operations, security, and capacity planning teams., • Leverage AI-assisted tooling for research, prototyping, and automation development to accelerate engineering cycles., • Contribute to team and organizational goals., • Champion the firm's culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect. Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills • 5+ years of hands-on experience in infrastructure engineering with demonstrated depth and breadth of knowledge across multiple domains (virtualization, storage, networking, Windows Server administration)., • Strong expertise in Microsoft Hyper-V at enterprise scale: failover clustering, live migration, storage spaces / S2D, virtual networking (Hyper-V virtual switch, SET), and Windows Server administration., • Strong proficiency in PowerShell scripting for infrastructure automation, host configuration management, WMI-based inventory collection, and operational tooling., • Demonstrated ability to audit performance of complex infrastructure architecture across the full stack and to maintain architecture artifacts (design documents, decision records, diagrams)., • Experience with storage performance analysis and optimization in virtualized environments — benchmarking, capacity planning, and storage policy design., • Ability to evaluate hardware BOMs for Hyper-V suitability — assessing processor/memory ratios, storage I/O characteristics, network throughput, and overcommit profiles., • Experience with infrastructure automation and configuration management tools (DSC, SCCM, Ansible, or equivalent) at data center scale., • Experience advocating for and implementing infrastructure automation — CI/CD pipelines, operational process improvement, and configuration-as-code — with a focus on scalability versus resource use., • Track record of providing stewardship to other engineers through technical guidance, design review, and documentation., • Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field.