Senior Infrastructure Engineer — Hyper-V Virtualization & Infrastructure Engineering

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.

 Collaborate with vendor partners (Microsoft) on Hyper-V roadmap alignment, feature adoption, and

escalation support.

 Collaborate effectively across infrastructure engineering, operations, security, and capacity planning

teams.

 Leverage AI-assisted tooling for research, prototyping, and automation development to accelerate

engineering cycles.

 Contribute to team and organizational goals.

 Champion the firm's culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

 5+ years of hands-on experience in infrastructure engineering with demonstrated depth and

breadth of knowledge across multiple domains (virtualization, storage, networking, Windows Server

administration).

 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 administration.

 Strong proficiency in PowerShell scripting for infrastructure automation, host configuration

management, WMI-based inventory collection, and operational 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 policy 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 center scale.

 Experience advocating for and implementing infrastructure automation — CI/CD pipelines,

operational process improvement, and configuration-as-code — with a focus on scalability versus

resource use.

 Track record of providing stewardship to other engineers through technical guidance, design review,

and documentation.

 Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical

field.

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

 Experience with Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC) and Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) at

enterprise 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 suitability.

 Experience with network fabric integration in virtualized environments — VLAN, SDN, load

balancing, and network adapter teaming.

 Working knowledge of C# / .NET for maintaining and extending infrastructure automation platforms.

 Experience with Microsoft System Center (VMM, SCOM, SCCM) at enterprise scale.

 Experience with security compliance remediation — Qualys vulnerability management, break

management, and security baseline enforcement.

 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 and research cycles.