We are currently looking for a Nutanix AHV Virtualization Engineer to strengthen the Cronos Europa team.
As a member of the infrastructure team, you will play a key role in the transition from existing virtualization platforms to a Nutanix AHV-based infrastructure.
You will contribute to the design, build and implementation phases in close collaboration with engineering teams, while ensuring the transition to operations and lifecycle management of the platform.
Responsibilities:
- Contribute to the design and implementation of Nutanix AHV clusters.
- Participate in the migration strategy from existing virtualization platforms to AHV.
- Prepare and validate infrastructure prerequisites, including network, storage and hardware.
- Support deployment activities, including cluster creation, configuration and validation.
- Define and implement best practices for AHV adoption.
- Work closely with infrastructure engineering teams across compute, network, storage and security.
- Contribute to architecture design decisions and technical validation.
- Align with engineering standards, reference architectures and security requirements.
- Operate and maintain Nutanix AHV clusters once deployed.
- Manage Prism Element and Prism Central.
- Perform lifecycle management activities, including upgrades, patching and compatibility checks.
- Ensure high availability, performance and resilience of workloads.
- Manage VM lifecycle activities, including snapshots, backup integration and performance tuning.
- Configure Nutanix storage, including AOS and containers.
- Implement replication and backup strategies and support disaster recovery mechanisms.
- Develop automation workflows using Ansible, REST APIs and scripting.
- Contribute to Infrastructure-as-Code and standardisation efforts.
- Automate provisioning and operational processes.
- Integrate the platform with enterprise observability tools.
- Apply security best practices and contribute to secure configuration baselines and compliance with internal standards.
Technical skills:
- Strong expertise in Nutanix AHV.
- Strong knowledge of the Nutanix ecosystem: AOS, Prism Element, Prism Central and LCM operations.
- Solid understanding of virtualization concepts, including compute, storage and networking.
- Experience with infrastructure build and migration projects.
- Experience with Ansible, REST APIs and scripting.
- Understanding of high-availability and disaster recovery principles.
- Knowledge of replication, backup and disaster recovery mechanisms.
- Experience with VMware vSphere, ESXi and vCenter is considered a strong asset, particularly in migration contexts.
- Experience with platform lifecycle operations, including patching, upgrades, backups, certificate renewal and disaster recovery, is an asset.
Profile:
- 4+ years of experience in virtualization and infrastructure engineering.
- Proven hands-on experience with Nutanix AHV in project or production environments is mandatory.
- Experience in infrastructure build and migration projects, ideally involving a transition to Nutanix AHV.
- Ability to work in close collaboration with engineering teams.
- Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving capabilities.
- Good communication and collaboration skills
Why Cronos Group?
We’ll propose you:
- An attractive salary package.
- A good work-life balance environment.
- The assurance of working in cutting-edge technologies in an entrepreneurial spirit.
- The opportunity to develop your skills thanks to tailor-made training courses according to your needs.
- A good job in a friendly place.
If you wish to integrate a dynamic structure on a human scale while working with the latest technologies, don't wait anymore and join Cronos!
General Information
Location: Luxembourg
Workload: Full-time
Start date: ASAP
Languages: English required; French is an asset
On-call: May be required according to operational needs
Working model: Infrastructure Operations / RUN
Skills Required
- 4+ years of experience in virtualization and infrastructure engineering
- Proven hands-on experience with Nutanix AHV
- Strong expertise in Nutanix ecosystem (AOS, Prism Element, Prism Central, LCM operations)
- Experience in infrastructure build and migration projects
- Solid understanding of virtualization concepts (compute, storage, networking)
- Experience with automation tools (Ansible, scripting, REST APIs)
- Understanding of high-availability and disaster recovery principles
- Language EN / FR
- Experience with VMware vSphere (ESXi, vCenter, cluster operations)
What We Do
Cronos Europa is an IT and digital communications company uniquely dedicated to serving the European institutions, agencies and bodies. From the European Union to EUROCONTROL, we partner with a range of supranational and interinstitutional authorities. Our mission is to arm them with the tools they need to thrive in the digital age. Every aspect of our organisation is designed to complement their capabilities - from our people to our processes and our premises. Our brand combines the expertise of former companies Cronos International and C-Dev, with the creative skills of Inspiiro and the breadth of capabilities of the Cronos Group. Today, Cronos Europa employs over 1,000 people in offices across Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, serving institutions across diverse framework contracts. Cronos Europa is part of the Cronos Group, one of the largest IT service providers in the Benelux, employing over 8,000 people across 200 competence centres. By leveraging the Group’s resources, Cronos Europa can help clients extract value from new and emerging technologies, for everything from Artificial intelligence to Zg Quantum. For spontaneous applications: https://cronoseuropa.breezy.hr/p/7a64ee973c6701-spontaneous-application?state=published
