Senior Principal Architect

Senior Principal Architect Nutanix

An exciting opportunity to join our team within a growing ICT Services company with a global portfolio, as a Nutanix Architect Role Overview Getronics is executing a critical strategic migration of our enterprise customer base from legacy VMware architectures to the Nutanix Cloud Platform (NCP). We are seeking a battle tested Senior Principal Architect to serve as the primary technical authority for this transformation.

You will be the "Tip of the Spear"the expert who defines the architecture, builds the migration factory, and hands-on leads the execution of moving complex workloads from vSphere to Nutanix AHV. This role requires deep expertise in cross-hypervisor migration, Nutanix AOS/AHV performance tuning, and infrastructure modernization.

Responsibilities/Accountabilities.

1. Strategic Architecture & Leadership

Define the Target State: Architect secure, scalable, and multi-tenant solutions on Nutanix Cloud Platform (running on Dell XC/Hardware) to replace legacy VMware VCSP environments.

Migration Strategy: Develop a comprehensive "Migration Factory" methodology to assess, group, and migrate thousands of VMs from ESXi to AHV with minimal downtime.

Technical Authority: Serve as the ultimate escalation point for all technical issues related to Nutanix implementation, cluster design, and V2V migrations.

Mentorship: Upskill the existing VMware-centric operations team on Nutanix AHV, Prism, and Flow, effectively building our Nutanix capability from the ground up.

2. Hands-on Execution (The "Builder" Role)

Infrastructure Build: Lead the deployment and configuration of Nutanix clusters (AOS, AHV, Prism Central) on Dell hardware, ensuring optimal performance and high availability.

Migration Execution: Personally oversee and execute complex migrations using Nutanix Move, troubleshooting driver issues, network cutovers, and application performance post-migration.

Interoperability: Design and implement the networking fabric (Flow Networking, VPNs, VLAN mapping) required to connect legacy environments with new target landing zones during the transition period.

3. Customer Engagement

Solution Defence: Collaborate with Pre-Sales and Account Management to present the migration roadmap to anxious enterprise customers, validating the technical integrity and security of the Nutanix platform.

Workload Assessment: Conduct deep-dive discovery of customer environments to identify dependencies, risks, and hard-coded configurations that could break during migration to Nutanix AHV.

Required Skills & Qualifications Core Competencies (Must Have):

Nutanix Expertise: Expert-level mastery of the Nutanix stack, specifically Nutanix AHV (Acropolis Hypervisor), AOS, and Prism Central. Must have proven experience replacing ESXi with AHV in production environments.

Migration Mastery: Demonstrated hands-on experience with Nutanix Move for V2V migration (ESXi to AHV).

VMware Deep Dive: 10+ years of deep VMware vSphere knowledge (vCenter, ESXi, NSX) to understand exactly what is being migrated and how to untangle legacy dependencies.

Hardware: Experience with Dell Infrastructure (PowerEdge/VxRail or Dell XC Series) and software-defined storage concepts.

Certifications (Highly Preferred):

Nutanix: Nutanix Certified Master (NCM) - Multicloud Infrastructure (MCI).

Nutanix: Nutanix Certified Professional (NCP) with significant field experience.

VMware: VCAP (Design/Deploy) or VCDX (Beneficial for understanding the source environment).

Experience Profile.

Minimum 15+ years of total IT Infrastructure experience.

At least 5-7 years of dedicated experience designing and implementing Hyper Converged Infrastructure (HCI), with a specific focus on Nutanix.

Proven Track Record: Must cite specific projects where you led a migration of 1000+ VMs from a legacy 3-tier architecture (or VMware VCSP) to Nutanix AHV.

Experience working in a Managed Service Provider (MSP) or large enterprise environment, dealing with multi-tenancy and strict SLAs.

Why This Role?

This is not a "maintenance" role. You will be the architect of a massive modernization engine, moving Getronics and our customers away from legacy constraints into a diversified, future-proof Nutanix ecosystem. You will have full autonomy to design the technical path and lead the charge.