Sify - Lead Cloud/Virtualization Engineer in Chennai, भारत

Exp range : 10 - 20 yrsMax Budget : ConfidentialLocation : ChennaiWe are currently hiring for a Cloud / Virtualization Engineer role and are looking for professionals with strong hands-on experience in virtualization infrastructure, open-source hypervisors, cloud infrastructure, automation, and infrastructure https://jobeax.com/link/60A4LTP1RtnIcSFF Responsibilities : - Architect scalable and secure virtualization solutions using open-source hypervisors.- Design and implement High Availability (HA), Disaster Recovery (DR), and resource-efficient infrastructure solutions.- Evaluate and integrate suitable orchestration and virtualization management platforms.- Lead deployment of virtualized compute, storage, and network stacks.- Standardize and automate infrastructure configuration using Ansible, Terraform, or custom scripts.- Maintain golden images and VM templates for rapid provisioning.- Benchmark virtualization hosts and perform hypervisor performance tuning.- Analyze workloads and optimize VM placement, NUMA affinity, and overcommitment strategies.- Perform capacity planning and forecasting based on business and infrastructure growth requirements.- Investigate and resolve performance bottlenecks, system crashes, and resource contention.- Lead RCA for major virtualization infrastructure incidents.- Harden hypervisors and implement tenant isolation using security frameworks such as SELinux and AppArmor.- Ensure secure VM images, patching, vulnerability remediation, audit trails, and compliance requirements.- Integrate virtualization management with DevOps pipelines and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices.- Automate VM lifecycle operations including provisioning, snapshots, migration, and decommissioning through APIs/CLI tools.- Work closely with Development and Platform teams on infrastructure automation and IaC.- Provide architecture enhancement recommendations considering performance, scalability, security, and TCO.- Validate infrastructure upgrade requirements and determine the need for new architecture/devices based on performance and capacity requirements.- Participate in partner meetings, technology workshops, POCs, and architecture evaluations.- Develop test cases/use cases for POCs and prepare technical evaluation reports.- Provide expert-level support to Operations and Delivery teams for technical issues and https://jobeax.com/link/hHif1BrrOnNr0xbC Preference : Immediate joiners to candidates with a maximum notice period of 30 to 45 days. (ref:hirist.tech)