Senior Hyper-V Infrastructure Engineer

Role: Senior Hyper-V Infrastructure Engineer
Location: Jersey City, NJ / Houston, TX / San Francisco, CA

We are looking for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer / Architect with strong enterprise-level Microsoft Hyper-V experience to design, operate, automate, and optimize large-scale virtual infrastructure across global data centers.

The ideal candidate will have deep hands-on experience with Hyper-V, Windows Server, Failover Clustering, PowerShell automation, Storage, Networking, and infrastructure performance engineering.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and maintain enterprise Hyper-V cluster architectures, including Failover Clustering, Live Migration, S2D, Virtual Switch, and Windows Server.
• Manage Hyper-V deployment, upgrades, patching, cluster operations, workload placement, and lifecycle management.
• Develop PowerShell/WMI/DSC automation for provisioning, configuration, inventory, compliance, patching, and infrastructure operations.
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues across compute, storage, networking, Windows Server, and Hyper-V.
• Perform capacity planning, performance analysis, benchmarking, and root-cause analysis.
• Work with storage technologies including Storage Spaces Direct (S2D), SAN, NVMe, and storage performance optimization.
• Support virtual networking including VLAN, Hyper-V Virtual Switch, SET, network teaming, and SDN.
• Contribute to infrastructure CI/CD and Infrastructure-as-Code automation.
• Maintain and enhance automation/control-plane applications using C#/.NET.
• Create technical documentation, architecture diagrams, design decisions, and operational best practices.
• Provide technical guidance, code/design reviews, and mentorship to other engineers.

Required Skills

• 5+ years of hands-on Infrastructure Engineering experience.
• Strong enterprise experience with Microsoft Hyper-V.
• Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC) and Live Migration.
• Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) and/or SAN experience.
• Strong PowerShell scripting and infrastructure automation.
• Experience with WMI, DSC, SCCM, Ansible, or equivalent automation/configuration tools.
• Strong understanding of virtual networking, VLAN, Hyper-V Virtual Switch, SET, and network performance.
• Experience with infrastructure performance tuning, capacity planning, benchmarking, and troubleshooting.
• Experience supporting large-scale data center/virtualization environments.

Preferred Skills

• C# / .NET 8 development for infrastructure/control-plane applications.
• CI/CD / DevOps automation.
• Microsoft SCVMM / SCOM / SCCM.
• VMware ESXi or KVM experience.
• Storage/compute performance tools such as DiskSpd, VMFleet, FIO, or elbencho.
• Experience with Qualys/security compliance and infrastructure security remediation.
• Knowledge of server hardware architecture including Intel Xeon, AMD EPYC, NVMe, and GPU platforms.
• Experience with large-scale enterprise data centers.