Req ID: 137883
Remote Position: No
Region: Asia
Country: India
State/Province: Chennai
City: Guindy, Chennai
The Technical Lead (Architect) serves as a senior technical authority responsible for the strategic design, modernization, and lifecycle management of enterprise virtualization and compute infrastructure. This is a hands-on leadership role that drives the architecture and delivery of hybrid, hyperconverged, and cloud-integrated platforms. You will bridge the gap between business requirements and technical execution, leading complex modernization initiatives while mentoring Global Server Administration teams and ensuring enterprise-grade scalability, resiliency, and performance across Nutanix, VMware, and Hyper-V environments.
Strategic Architecture: Lead the development of target-state platform architectures, defining standards for Nutanix virtualization, disaster recovery (DR), and high availability (HA).
Infrastructure Transformation: Architect and execute large-scale migrations, specifically focusing on transitioning legacy virtualization (VMware) to modern Nutanix HCI ecosystems.
Technical Leadership: Act as a senior escalation point and primary advisor for complex compute and virtualization challenges. Provide oversight for design reviews, proof-of-concepts (POCs), and technical governance.
Operations & Engineering: Define engineering standards and operational best practices. Drive the adoption of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation frameworks (e.g., Ansible, Terraform, PowerShell) to shift toward self-healing, "as-code" infrastructure models.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with storage, networking, and application owners to ensure platform capabilities align with business objectives, EMR/EHR dependencies (if applicable), and security compliance.
Stakeholder Engagement: Prepare and deliver executive-level presentations, articulating technology strategy, risks, trade-offs, and modernization roadmaps to senior leadership and Architecture Review Boards.
Core Expertise: Deep expertise in enterprise virtualization platforms, specifically Nutanix (AOS, AHV, Prism), VMware vSphere/vCenter, and Microsoft Hyper-V.
Architecture Proficiency: Strong understanding of HCI architecture, converged infrastructure, storage (SAN), and hybrid cloud integration.
Automation: Proven proficiency in automation scripting and orchestration tools (PowerShell, Python, Ansible, or Terraform).
Soft Skills: Demonstrated ability to lead technical teams, mentor engineers, and manage stakeholder relationships under pressure.
Certifications: Active Nutanix certifications (NCP, NCM, NCA), VMware Certified Professional (VCP), or equivalent.
Ecosystem Knowledge: Experience with Nutanix DR solutions (Leap, replication), Prism Central, and modern data center tools (Device42, ServiceNow).
Hybrid/Cloud: Experience integrating on-premises infrastructure with public cloud (Azure/AWS) and managing hybrid identity/compute patterns.
Compliance: Familiarity with operating in regulated environments (e.g., healthcare/financial services) and infrastructure security hardening.
- Duties of this position are performed in a normal office environment.
- Duties may require extended periods of sitting and sustained visual concentration on a computer monitor or on numbers and other detailed data. Repetitive manual movements (e.g., data entry, using a computer mouse, using a calculator, etc.) are frequently required.
Experience: 15+ years in infrastructure architecture, platform engineering, or senior IT leadership roles within large enterprise environments.
- Bachelor's Degree or consideration of an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Educational requirements may vary by geography.
This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities of the position. Employees are held accountable for all duties of the job. Job duties and the % of time identified for any function are subject to change at any time.
Celestica is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on any protected status (including race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran or disability status or other characteristics protected by law).
At Celestica we are committed to fostering an inclusive, accessible environment, where all employees and customers feel valued, respected and supported. Special arrangements can be made for candidates who need it throughout the hiring process. Please indicate your needs and we will work with you to meet them.
COMPANY OVERVIEW:
Celestica (NYSE, TSX: CLS) enables the world’s best brands. Through our recognized customer-centric approach, we partner with leading companies in Aerospace and Defense, Communications, Enterprise, HealthTech, Industrial, Capital Equipment and Energy to deliver solutions for their most complex challenges. As a leader in design, manufacturing, hardware platform and supply chain solutions, Celestica brings global expertise and insight at every stage of product development – from drawing board to full-scale production and after-market services for products from advanced medical devices, to highly engineered aviation systems, to next-generation hardware platform solutions for the Cloud. Headquartered in Toronto, with talented teams spanning 40+ locations in 13 countries across the Americas, Europe and Asia, we imagine, develop and deliver a better future with our customers.
Celestica would like to thank all applicants, however, only qualified applicants will be contacted.
Celestica does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies or fee based recruitment services.
