Cloud & Virtualization Architect 14+years

Role Overview As the Cloud & Virtualization Architect, you will own the design and architecture of the enterprise virtualization platform (primarily Hyper-V) and its hybrid-cloud integration across a large-scale environment.

This is a senior architecture and engineering role — not an operations or day-to-day administration role.

You will define how virtualization clusters are designed, sized, automated, and self-healed, setting the standards and reference architectures that operations teams execute against.

You will be the technical authority for cluster performance, capacity/right-sizing, and infrastructure automation, solving the hardest platform-level problems and driving the strategy rather than handling ticket queues.

• Serve as the design authority for the enterprise virtualization platform, primarily Hyper-V (Failover Clustering, storage, and networking design)
• Architect virtualization clusters for performance, availability, and scale — including host standards, HA/failover design, and cluster topology
• Own capacity planning and right-sizing across the fleet: node sizing, RAM/CPU/storage ratios, HA reservation models, and consolidation ratios grounded in real utilization data
• Design and drive infrastructure automation and orchestration using Ansible and Terraform — provisioning, configuration, and lifecycle as code
• Architect self-healing infrastructure: automated detection and remediation of host, cluster, and VM health issues to reduce manual intervention
• Define reference architectures, design standards, and build/validate/release pipelines for virtualization hosts and templates
• Architect hybrid-cloud and cloud integration (Azure preferred), including landing zone design, connectivity, and workload placement between on-prem and cloud
• Establish performance baselines and observability standards for cluster health, capacity, and utilization; use data to guide design decisions
• Partner with compute, storage, network, and security teams to align virtualization design with hardening, compliance, and DR/BC requirements
• Provide senior-level architecture guidance and root-cause analysis for platform-wide virtualization and performance issues; mentor engineers and set technical direction