About Cronos Europa
Cronos Europa is a leading IT and digital transformation partner dedicated exclusively to European Institutions and agencies, delivering mission‑critical solutions that shape Europe’s digital future. As part of the Cronos Group, one of the most innovative and fastest‑growing tech ecosystems in Europe, we benefit from a vast pool of expertise and cutting‑edge capabilities. With over 1,000 specialists across Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands, we combine deep institutional knowledge with strong engineering excellence to support long‑term, high‑impact EU programmes requiring reliability, scalability, and innovation.
About the job
Cronos Europa is looking for a Nutanix Migration Specialist to support a project for the European Parliament. This is a short-term consulting assignment offering an attractive compensation package for an experienced professional. The selected consultant will provide high-level expertise in the design and definition of a Nutanix-based platform, supporting architecture, automation, provisioning, and disaster recovery initiatives. Services will be performed primarily remotely. On-site presence may be required at European Parliament premises when justified by project needs.
Key Responsibilities
- Define platform baseline standards for Nutanix AHV environments, including compute, storage, networking, and security principles.
- Establish operational practices covering lifecycle management, monitoring, and governance.
- Design Linux provisioning approaches using technologies such as cloud-init and automation platforms (e.g. Ansible).
- Define VM templates, image preparation standards, and integration with configuration management tools.
- Develop disaster recovery strategies leveraging Nutanix capabilities, including failover scenarios and recovery procedures.
- Define integration patterns with enterprise backup, monitoring, and logging solutions.
- Identify automation opportunities and recommend operational workflows.
- Review proposed architectures against industry best practices.
- Assess risks, constraints, and improvement opportunities, providing recommendations for future implementation phases.
Profile requirements
- Proven experience with Nutanix AHVarchitecture and operations.
- Strong knowledge of infrastructure design, virtualization, and enterprise platforms.
- Experience defining Linux provisioning and automation frameworks.
- Solid understanding of disaster recovery concepts, business continuity, and infrastructure resilience.
- Experience integrating infrastructure platforms with monitoring, logging, and backup solutions.
- Ability to produce architectural recommendations, technical assessments, and design documentation.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Professional proficiency in English.
Desired Assets
- Experience within EU Institutions or other large public-sector organizations.
- Knowledge of Ansible Automation Platform and Infrastructure-as-Code practices.
- Familiarity with enterprise governance, security, and operational frameworks.
- Experience working in complex, multi-stakeholder international environments.
- Relevant Nutanix certifications.
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Skills Required
- Proven experience with Nutanix AHV architecture and operations.
- Strong knowledge of infrastructure design, virtualization, and enterprise platforms.
- Experience defining Linux provisioning and automation frameworks (e.g., cloud-init, Ansible).
- Solid understanding of disaster recovery, business continuity, and infrastructure resilience.
- Experience integrating infrastructure platforms with monitoring, logging, and backup solutions.
- Ability to produce architectural recommendations, technical assessments, and design documentation.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Professional proficiency in English.
- Experience within EU Institutions or other large public-sector organizations.
- Knowledge of Ansible Automation Platform and Infrastructure-as-Code practices.
- Familiarity with enterprise governance, security, and operational frameworks.
- Experience working in complex, multi-stakeholder international environments.
- Relevant Nutanix certifications.
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
