Hyper-V Administrator - Senior

Responsible for unique or complex information systems and/or information technology projects across more than one discipline, such as application support, database administration, software quality assurance/quality control, software engineering, network telecommunications, and infrastructure operations of administration, analysis, engineering and design. Provides direction to other IT Administrators on the project in a senior administrator capacity. Considered a technical specialist in a variety of IT administrator disciplines.

• Manage Microsoft Hyper-V infrastructure across Windows Server environments. 
• Perform VM provisioning, configuration, and lifecycle management.
• Monitor Hyper-V environment health and performance.
• Participate in 24x7 on-call rotation.
• Implement virtualization automation using PowerShell and System Center. 
• Perform capacity planning and resource optimization.
• Support disaster recovery and backup operations using Hyper-V Replica.
• Maintain Hyper-V documentation and runbooks.
• Manage Hyper-V networking (virtual switches) and storage configurations. 
• Coordinate with Windows Systems Administrators for host management.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or a related field or equivalent relevant experience; Master’s Degree preferred.
• 8-15 years of experience in information technology, systems administration or other IT related field with 4+ years Hyper-V Admin experience.

Other Job Specific Skills

• Strong in: Hyper-V 2016/2019/2022, System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM), Failover Clustering.
• Knowledge: PowerShell automation, backup solutions, disaster recovery, Hyper-V Replica.
• Microsoft Certified: Windows Server Hybrid Administrator Associate or equivalent.