Hyper-V Admin C2C jobs – L3 & L4 – Pleasanton, CA

Microsoft Hyper‑V Core Administration (Must‑Have)

Install & configure Hyper‑V Role

Create and manage Virtual Machines

Generation 1 vs Generation 2 VMs

VHD / VHDX creation and management

Dynamic vs Static Memory

Virtual CPU allocation & NUMA awareness

Integration Services

VMWARE Administration

Windows Patching process

Vcenter Administration

ESX Upgrade skills

Firmware Upgrade

Migration skills

Fixed

Dynamic

Differencing

Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV)

NTFS vs ReFS

Storage performance monitoring (IOPS, latency)

iSCSI concepts (targets, initiators)

SMB 3.0 storage knowledge

Hyper‑V High Availability

Live Migration & Storage Live Migration

Cluster validation

Cluster‑Aware Updating (CAU)

Hyper‑V aware backups (VSS based)

Production checkpoints vs Standard checkpoints

VM restore (full / file‑level)

Understanding of popular tools:

Veeam

DPM

Virtual Machine Configuration

PowerShell Scripting

Networking in Hyper-V

Storage Management

Cluster & High Availability Setup

Performance Monitoring & Tuning

Evaluate current Hyper-V environment, storage, network, and compute resources.

Set up live migration parameters, storage paths, and network configurations.

Perform complex migrations: Handle critical workloads, clustered environments, and cross-domain migrations.

Escalation point: Act as the final escalation tier for unresolved issues from Level 1 and Level 2 teams.

Maintain migration runbooks: Document procedures, fallback plans, and post-migration validation steps.

Ensure compliance: Validate that migration adheres to security, data protection, and regulatory standards.

Coordinate with stakeholders: Work with Client stake holders, project managers, application owners, and infrastructure teams.

Mentor junior staff: Guide Level 1 and Level 2 & Level 3 engineers on best practices and troubleshooting techniques. Strong ESXi VMware skilled resource handled critical migrations:

VMware vSphere/ESXi: Experience with VMware helps understand VM lifecycle, resource allocation, and migration concepts.

KVM or Xen: Familiarity with other hypervisors builds transferable skills in virtual machine management.

Migrate tools knowledge : Especially useful for Hyper-V to Azure or relevant OS transitions. Knowing how to assess, replicate, and migrate workloads is critical

Installing and configuring new ESXi in blade serves

Upgrade vCenter Server Appliance from 6.5 to 6.7, 6.7 to 7 and 7 to 8

Windows servers patching

Upgrade ESXi from 6.5 to 6.7 and 6.7 to 7 and 7 to 8

Configure and Manage HA, DRS, Resource Pools clusters

Perform patching of vCenter and ESXi using Lifecycle manager

Perform Physical server firmware update

Daily Health checks and Performance of the VMware infrastructures

Configuring Alarms for the Hosts and VMs

Migrate Physical Server to Virtual Server using VMware Convertor (P2V Convention)

Creation of new LUN from storage as per requirement

Expand Datastore and increase VM hard disks

Monitor and manage datastore health check

Restore VMs from snapshot/Veeam Backup based on requirement

Deploy windows server (VM and Physical) as per standard Template and ISO image

Migration of Windows Server 2016 to 2019 to 2022

Monitor Physical servers alert for ESXi and Windows hosted blade servers

Coordinate with vendor for hardware related issues

Review VMWare vulnerability reports and take appropriate actions

Basic troubleshooting in RHEL servers

Follow end-to-end decommission process for unused Windows Server (Physical and VM

Creating, managing, and optimizing VMs for performance and resource allocation in Hyper -V

Navigating and utilizing Hyper-V Manager for VM lifecycle operations

Automating tasks, managing VMs, and troubleshooting using scripts

Configuring virtual switches, VLANs, and ensuring secure connectivity

Configuring failover clustering and live migration for uptime and resilience

Applying security baselines, patching, and role-based access controls.