Infrastructure Migration Engineer

Senior Infrastructure Engineer - ESXi to Hyper-V Migration

Location: Multi-site (UK-wide travel required, European travel optional)
Duration: 4 weeks
Start: 6th April

We're delivering a large-scale VMware ESXi to Microsoft Hyper-V migration across multiple UK sites, moving 8-9 VMs per location using an Acronis-based backup & restore approach. This is a hands-on, high-impact role requiring a senior engineer to execute end-to-end migrations in time-critical windows, including overnight cutovers and production rebuilds.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead end-to-end ESXi to Hyper-V migrations across multiple client sites.
• Perform VM backups, restores, and V2V conversions using Acronis.
• Configure and manage Hyper-V hosts, virtual Switches, and networking.
• Rebuild production Servers including RAID config & Windows Server installs.
• Conduct AD health checks (dcdiag, replication, SYSVOL/NETLOGON).
• Troubleshoot boot issues, driver conflicts, and network re-config post migration.
• Validate file services, applications, and infrastructure stability before handover.
• Follow strict runbooks, change control, and validation checkpoints.

Required Experience & Skills

• Strong dual-hypervisor experience (VMware ESXi + Microsoft Hyper-V)
• Proven delivery of V2V migration projects
• Solid experience with Acronis Backup (or similar enterprise backup tools)
• Hands-on RAID configuration & physical server builds (HPE preferred)
• Strong Active Directory experience, including domain controller management
• Networking fundamentals: IP Addressing, VLANs, virtual switching
• Advanced troubleshooting across Windows Server, boot issues, and services
• Must have valid Driving License and have a mode of transport travel between sites.

If you are available and interested in this opportunity, please apply for further information. Please note due to high volumes of applications we are unable to contact every application.

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