Senior VMware-to-Hyper-V Migration SME / Senior Systems Engineer - Remote

Senior VMware-to-Hyper-V Migration SME / Senior Systems Engineer

The client is seeking an experienced VMware-to-Hyper-V Migration SME or Senior Systems Engineer for a time-sensitive infrastructure transition. A key member of the client’s infrastructure team has given notice, creating an immediate need for knowledge transfer and specialized migration support.

REQUIRED SKILLS: (Need All)

• Significant hands-on experience administering production VMware environments, including VMware ESXi and vCenter.


• Prior experience planning and executing migrations of production virtual machines from VMware to Microsoft Hyper-V.


• Ability to assess an existing VMware environment and develop a practical, phased migration plan that minimizes operational risk and downtime.


• Experience building or configuring Hyper-V hosts and preparing the target Hyper-V environment for migrated workloads.


• Experience migrating Windows Server workloads and validating compute, storage, networking, security, application, and performance functionality following migration.


• Strong knowledge of virtual networking, VLANs, virtual switches, storage dependencies, DNS, IP addressing, and related infrastructure considerations.


• Experience with backup, recovery, replication, and rollback planning in virtualized environments.


• Ability to independently take ownership of a migration initiative, identify technical risks, recommend an approach, and communicate clearly with IT leadership.


• Availability to begin quickly and provide sufficient continuity during a time-sensitive infrastructure transition.

NICE TO HAVE SKILLS:

• Experience using Veeam for backup, replication, recovery, or workload migration in VMware and Hyper-V environments.


• Experience integrating Veeam with Wasabi or another S3-compatible cloud object-storage platform.


• Experience migrating workloads that include Microsoft SQL Server.


• Experience administering Microsoft Intune and Microsoft Entra ID.


• Experience supporting F5 technologies, including load balancing or application-delivery infrastructure.


• Broader Windows systems administration experience in environments containing both on-premises and externally hosted infrastructure.


• Experience supporting network infrastructure spanning local datacenters and hosted environments.


• Experience working with third-party infrastructure providers, managed-service partners, or vendors such as CDW.


• Experience developing infrastructure documentation, migration runbooks, validation procedures, and operational handoff materials.