8 to 10 years
This role is STARs-friendly: Skilled Through Alternative Routes.
35% STARs in role.
Description
Our client is seeking a senior-level systems engineer to support a major virtualization modernization initiative involving the migration of approximately 50% of its applicable workload from VMware to Microsoft Hyper-V.
The engineer will help plan and execute the migration while providing ongoing engineering and operational support for the Hyper-V environment. This is not a general VMware or infrastructure engineering role with occasional Hyper-V exposure. The organization needs a Microsoft virtualization specialist who has directly owned production Hyper-V clusters and can independently troubleshoot complex clustering, compute, networking, and storage issues.
Responsibilities:
- Engineer, administer, maintain, and troubleshoot enterprise Microsoft Hyper-V environments.
- Build, configure, validate, upgrade, and support Windows Server Failover Clusters.
- Manage Hyper-V hosts and clusters through SCVMM.
- Plan and execute production workload migrations from VMware to Hyper-V.
- Perform workload discovery, dependency analysis, migration testing, cutover planning, rollback planning, and post-migration validation.
- Evaluate workload readiness and identify migration risks or technical dependencies.
- Configure and support cluster quorum, witnesses, Cluster Shared Volumes, Live Migration, Storage Migration, virtual networking, and high availability.
- Troubleshoot complex Hyper-V, Windows clustering, storage, networking, performance, and availability issues.
- Analyze cluster logs, Windows event logs, SCVMM jobs, PowerShell output, and platform telemetry to identify root causes.
- Support the integration of Microsoft virtualization with HPE Synergy compute and HPE storage.
- Participate in infrastructure incidents, root-cause analysis, and post-incident improvement activities.
- Participate in occasional after-hours production changes and on-call support.
- Develop and maintain operating procedures, technical documentation, architecture diagrams, runbooks, and knowledge-transfer materials.
- Collaborate with architecture, network, storage, security, operations, vendor, and offshore engineering teams.
- Mentor other engineers and provide senior-level technical direction when needed.
Qualifications
- Extensive enterprise infrastructure engineering experience, typically 8–10+ years.
- Deep, recent, hands-on ownership of Microsoft Hyper-V in a large production environment.
- Expert-level Windows Server Failover Clustering experience.
- Strong hands-on SCVMM administration experience.
- Direct experience migrating production workloads from VMware to Hyper-V.
- Advanced Windows Server engineering and troubleshooting experience.
- Strong understanding of enterprise SAN/NAS storage and virtualization dependencies.
- Experience identifying whether an issue originates in compute, storage, networking, Windows, SCVMM, or the virtualization layer.
- Experience supporting business-critical, highly available production environments.
- Experience participating in on-call rotations and after-hours change windows.
- Strong PowerShell skills are preferred.
- HPE Synergy and HPE storage experience are strongly preferred.
- Healthcare or similarly regulated enterprise experience is preferred.
- Strong documentation, communication, and knowledge-transfer skills.
Job Type & Location
This is a Contract position based out of Pleasanton, CA.
Pay and BenefitsThe pay range for this position is $75.00 - $91.00/hr.
Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job
classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be
subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits
available for this temporary role may include the following:
• Medical, dental & vision
• Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
• 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
• Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
• Short and long-term disability
• Health Spending Account (HSA)
• Transportation benefits
• Employee Assistance Program
• Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)
This is a hybrid position in Pleasanton,CA.
Application DeadlineThis position is anticipated to close on Jul 21, 2026.
About TEKsystems
We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.
The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.
About TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services
We’re a leading provider of business and technology services. We accelerate business transformation for our customers. Our expertise in strategy, design, execution and operations unlocks business value through a range of solutions. We’re a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 customers, including 80% of the Fortune 500 across North America, Europe and Asia, who partner with us for our scale, full-stack capabilities and speed. We’re strategic thinkers, hands-on collaborators, helping customers capitalize on change and master the momentum of technology. We’re building tomorrow by delivering business outcomes and making positive impacts in our global communities. TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services are Allegis Group companies. Learn more at TEKsystems.com.
The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.
San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, for all positions located in the city and county of San Francisco, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Massachusetts Lie Detector: It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.
Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI): We may use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to support parts of our hiring process, including sourcing, screening, and evaluating candidates. AI helps assess applications and qualifications, but final decisions are made by our hiring team. By applying, you acknowledge and agree that your application may be reviewed using AI tools.
Posting ID: JP-006159072