Microsoft Hyper- V Control Plane Development SME / Architect
Job Responsibilities
Architecture & Systems Design
Design and maintain Hyper-V cluster architectures including failover clustering, live migration, storage configuration, and network topology across global data center pools.
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 decisions.
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 tooling.
Develop and document reference architectures and best practices for Hyper-V cluster deployment, storage configuration, and workload placement.
Coding
Create 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 platform.
Write PowerShell scripts for host configuration management, inventory collection, cluster operations, and firmware deployment across the Hyper-V fleet.
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 components.
Provide stewardship to other engineers in support of quality delivery - peer reviewing automation scripts, infrastructure designs, and technical documentation.
Automation & Continuous Delivery
Advocate for and implement infrastructure automation, identifying opportunities to automate, combine, or simplify operational processes with a focus on scalability versus resource 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 platform.
Support and evolve CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure automation tooling, including multi-environment deployment and automated testing.
Distributed Systems Design & Development
Plan and execute Hyper-V cluster upgrades, Windows Server rolling upgrades, and hypervisor patch rollouts across production environments with zero or minimal downtime.
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 changes.
Data Fluency
Identify appropriate data sources and apply appropriate methodologies when making data-based recommendations for capacity planning, performance optimization, and hardware procurement decisions.
Conduct storage and compute performance benchmarking using industry and internal tooling (e.g., elbencho, VMFleet, diskspd) to validate hardware configurations and inform deployment decisions.
Deliver against defined SLOs and SLAs; track and reduce events leading to errors or risks.
Cross-Functional
Collaborate with hardware engineering on server platform evaluation, providing Hyper-V-specific performance requirements and validation feedback.
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