Wave Group
Migration Engineer
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Wave Group is recruiting on behalf of a client undergoing a large-scale infrastructure transformation programme within a complex, highly regulated environment. We're looking for an experienced VMware Migration Engineer to support the migration of 2,000+ servers across 70+ VMware hosts, moving workloads from the existing VMware estate onto a combination of Nutanix and OpenShift Virtualization.
This is a hands-on delivery role, not a BAU VMware position — we need someone who has personally planned and executed large-scale server and VM migrations, and can speak to that experience in detail.
What you'll be doing
- Supporting the migration of 2,000+ servers across 70+ VMware hosts
- Assessing the existing VMware estate — dependencies, migration requirements, risks
- Categorising workloads and mapping them to the right target platform (Nutanix or OpenShift Virtualization)
- Building detailed migration plans, runbooks and migration waves
- Running VM discovery, assessment, remediation and migration end-to-end
- Coordinating across infrastructure, application, network, storage and security teams
- Leading pre-migration readiness checks and post-migration validation
- Supporting rehearsals, cutover, rollback planning and troubleshooting
- Identifying dependencies that could impact migration
- Maintaining migration tracking, documentation and status reporting
- Supporting legacy VMware decommissioning once migrations complete
- Operating within established change, risk and governance processes for a regulated enterprise environment
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Essential experience
- Extensive hands-on VMware vSphere/ESXi experience, including vCenter, clusters/hosts, storage, networking, HA/DRS and capacity management
- A proven track record delivering large-scale VMware migration programmes — not just operating an existing estate
- Experience with workload discovery, dependency assessment, migration-wave planning and detailed runbooks
- Strong troubleshooting across virtualisation, server, network and storage
- Comfortable working within complex enterprise infrastructure and formal change/risk/rollback processes
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Target platform experience
(strong experience in at least one required; both is a strong plus)
Nutanix
- AHV, Prism, VMware-to-Nutanix migration, Nutanix Move (or equivalent), VM deployment/management on Nutanix
OpenShift Virtualization
- Red Hat OpenShift, OpenShift Virtualization/KubeVirt, migrating VM workloads into OpenShift, VM lifecycle management, storage/networking considerations within OpenShift
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