Lead Cloud/Virtualization Engineer
First seen by Alion on Sep 24, 2026.
Exp range : 10 - 20 yrs
Max Budget : Confidential
Location : Chennai
We 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 architecture.
Key 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 escalations.
Joining Preference : Immediate joiners to candidates with a maximum notice period of 30 to 45 days.
Skills
Virtualization, Cloud, Ansible, Terraform, IT Infrastructure, IT Disaster Recovery, IT Risk, VMware, IAC Terraform, DevOps