Hyper-V Virtualization Engineering

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Job Role: Hyper-V Virtualization Engineering

Duration: 6 months with extension for 12+ months or offer to hire.

Rate: $70/hr. on C2C/1099

Location: Onsite 5 days a week - Jersey City, NJ

Eligibility: GC or USC

Job Descripti

onSenior Infrastructure Engineer - Hyper-V Virtualization & Infrastructure Engineeri

ng
We're looking for a talented, senior engineering professional ready to take their career to new heights at one of the world's most influential compani
es.You will engineer and operate enterprise-scale Microsoft Hyper-V virtual infrastructure across global data centers. You will apply depth and breadth of knowledge across multiple domains hypervisor platforms, storage, networking, clustering, performance engineering, and security compliance to deploy, optimize, and maintain virtual infrastructure that supports tens of thousands of workloads across multiple regio
ns.This role sits within the Compute Engineering team, which owns the full lifecycle of virtual infrastructure: hypervisor deployment and upgrade, cluster operations, performance engineering, storage optimization, workload management, and compliance remediation. A separate hardware engineering function handles server certification, firmware lifecycle management, and hardware lab validation. You will collaborate closely with hardware engineering evaluating hardware BOMs for performance characteristics specific to Hyper-V and providing technical feedback, but your primary focus is the virtualization platform layer and above. You will work across Windows Server and Hyper-V clustering, storage subsystems, and automation tooling maintaining and extending a custom .NET-based workload management platform as needed. You will provide stewardship to other engineers through technical guidance, peer review, and design documentation. Experience with Hyper-V at enterprise scale is a strong differentiat

or.
Job Responsibili

tiesDesign and maintain Hyper-V cluster architectures including failover clustering, live migration, storage configuration, and network topology across global data center po
ols.Evaluate hardware BOMs proposed by hardware engineering for Hyper-V performance characteristics processor/memory ratios, storage throughput, network bandwidth, and overcommit suitability and provide technical feedback to inform procurement decisi
ons.Audit performance of complex virtual infrastructure across the full stack compute, storage, networking, and hypervisor layers and maintain architecture artifacts (high-level design documents, decision records, diagrams) using firmwide tool
ing.Develop and document reference architectures and best practices for Hyper-V cluster deployment, storage configuration, and workload placem

ent.
C

odingCreate and maintain automation for virtual infrastructure lifecycle management — provisioning, configuration, patching, compliance enforcement, and decommissioning of Hyper-V workloads using PowerShell, WMI, and the team's .NET-based workload management plat
form.Write PowerShell scripts for host configuration management, inventory collection, cluster operations, and firmware deployment across the Hyper-V f
leet.Maintain and extend the existing C# / .NET 8 workload management platform as needed — including the server-side orchestration API, distributed worker engine, and Windows client agent compon
ents.Provide stewardship to other engineers in support of quality delivery — peer reviewing automation scripts, infrastructure designs, and technical documenta

tion.
Automation & Continuous De

liveryAdvocate for and implement infrastructure automation, identifying opportunities to automate, combine, or simplify operational processes with a focus on scalability versus resourc
e use.Develop and maintain automation for Hyper-V host configuration, cluster provisioning, rolling upgrades, and compliance enforcement using PowerShell DSC, scripts, and the team's workload management pla
tform.Support and evolve CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure automation tooling, including multi-environment deployment and automated te

sting.
Distributed Systems Design & Deve

lopmentPlan and execute Hyper-V cluster upgrades, Windows Server rolling upgrades, and hypervisor patch rollouts across production environments with zero or minimal do
wntime.Troubleshoot production issues across the virtual infrastructure stack — hypervisor, clustering, storage, and networking layers — using structured logging, event tracing, performance counters, and vendor diagnostic
tools.Consider all risks, potential environmental impacts, and FinOps implications when designing and implementing infrastructure c

hanges.
Data

FluencyIdentify appropriate data sources and apply appropriate methodologies when making data-based recommendations for capacity planning, performance optimization, and hardware procurement de
cisions.Conduct storage and compute performance benchmarking using industry and internal tooling (e.g., elbencho, VMFleet, diskspd) to validate hardware configurations and inform deployment de
cisions.Deliver against defined SLOs and SLAs; track and reduce events leading to errors o

r risks.
Cross-F

unctionalCollaborate with hardware engineering on server platform evaluation, providing Hyper-V-specific performance requirements and validation
feedback.Collaborate with vendor partners (Microsoft) on Hyper-V roadmap alignment, feature adoption, and escalation
support.Collaborate effectively across infrastructure engineering, operations, security, and capacity planni
ng teams.Leverage AI-assisted tooling for research, prototyping, and automation development to accelerate engineering cycles.Contribute to team and organization
al goals.Champion the firm's culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and

respect.
Required Qualifications, Capabilities,

and Skills5+ years of hands-on experience in infrastructure engineering with demonstrated depth and breadth of knowledge across multiple domains (virtualization, storage, networking, Windows Server admini
stration).Strong expertise in Microsoft Hyper-V at enterprise scale: failover clustering, live migration, storage spaces / S2D, virtual networking (Hyper-V virtual switch, SET), and Windows Server admin
istration.Strong proficiency in PowerShell scripting for infrastructure automation, host configuration management, WMI-based inventory collection, and operationa
l tooling.Demonstrated ability to audit performance of complex infrastructure architecture across the full stack and to maintain architecture artifacts (design documents, decision records,
diagrams).Experience with storage performance analysis and optimization in virtualized environments benchmarking, capacity planning, and storage poli
cy design.Ability to evaluate hardware BOMs for Hyper-V suitability assessing processor/memory ratios, storage I/O characteristics, network throughput, and overcommit
profiles.Experience with infrastructure automation and configuration management tools (DSC, SCCM, Ansible, or equivalent) at data cen
ter scale.Experience advocating for and implementing infrastructure automation CI/CD pipelines, operational process improvement, and configuration-as-code with a focus on scalability versus res
ource use.Track record of providing stewardship to other engineers through technical guidance, design review, and docu
mentation.• Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or a related techni

cal field.
Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities,

and SkillsExperience with Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC) and Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) at enterp
rise scale.Experience with additional hypervisors (VMware ESXi, KVM, etc.) production experience with dual-hypervisor environments
are a plus.Familiarity with server hardware architecture (Intel Xeon, AMD EPYC, NVMe storage, GPU accelerators) sufficient to evaluate hardware proposals for Hyper-V workload s
uitability.Experience with network fabric integration in virtualized environments VLAN, SDN, load balancing, and network adapt
er teaming.Working knowledge of C# / .NET for maintaining and extending infrastructure automation
platforms.Experience with Microsoft System Center (VMM, SCOM, SCCM) at enterp
rise scale.Experience with security compliance remediation Qualys vulnerability management, break management, and security baseline e
nforcement.Experience with performance testing frameworks (elbencho, VMFleet, diskspd, fio or similar) for storage and compute
validation.Familiarity with using generative AI tools to accelerate

engineering

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