Nutanix System Engineer

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Assess Nutanix usage and promote adoption; advise customers on best practices, architecture, reference architectures, and validated designs.
• Install and configure products; perform upgrades, patching, and migrations from three-tier systems or between hypervisors.
• Monitor alerts, remediate issues, troubleshoot performance and availability, and plan capacity.
• Manage VM lifecycles, coordinate advanced troubleshooting, and participate in disaster recovery drills.
• Automate administrative work, collaborate with sales on opportunities and customer reporting, and keep customers informed with project updates and documentation.
• Conduct product proofs of concept, train customer resources, and mentor junior team members.

Required qualifications

• At least 5 years of system administration and virtualization experience.
• Strong knowledge of Nutanix AOS/AHV and/or Hyper-V/VMware ESXi.
• Ability to independently analyze and diagnose complex cross-platform problems.
• Excellent communication skills and a customer-centric approach.
• Arabic speaker required.

Preferred qualifications

• VMware VCP/VCAP or Nutanix NCP certification is a plus.
• Workload migration experience, including P2V and V2V, is advantageous.
• Storage and data protection knowledge is advantageous.
• Automation and scripting exposure, preferably Python or PowerShell, is advantageous.