VMware to Hypervisor Migration Engineer

You are an experienced VMware to Hypervisor Migration Engineer with over 5 years of experience located in Chennai. Your main responsibility will be to lead and support the migration of virtual workloads from VMware environments to alternative hypervisors such as KVM, Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, or other open-source solutions. You should have a strong understanding of VMware infrastructure, expertise in multiple hypervisor platforms, and a track record of successfully planning and executing virtualization migration projects. Your key responsibilities include assessing the existing VMware infrastructure, designing migration strategies based on business needs and technical requirements, conducting proof of concepts for alternate hypervisors, leading end-to-end migration processes, ensuring minimal downtime and data integrity, collaborating with other teams for seamless integration, troubleshooting issues, documenting the migration process, and providing training to internal IT teams post-migration. To excel in this role, you must possess strong experience with VMware vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, as well as deep knowledge of alternate hypervisors like KVM, Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, or Proxmox. Hands-on experience with virtual machine conversion tools, familiarity with Linux and Windows operating systems, networking, storage systems, and cloud integrations is essential. Strong troubleshooting, performance tuning, documentation, communication skills, and experience with automation/scripting tools are also required. Preferred qualifications for this role include VMware Certified Professional (VCP) or equivalent certifications, experience in regulated or enterprise IT environments, and familiarity with containerization and hybrid infrastructure.,