About us:
Intuitive is an innovation-led engineering company delivering business outcomes for 100's of Enterprises globally. With the reputation of being a Tiger Team & a Trusted Partner of enterprise technology leaders, we help solve the most complex Digital Transformation challenges across following Intuitive Superpowers:
Modernization & Migration
- Application & Database Modernization
- Platform Engineering (IaC/EaC, DevSecOps & SRE)
- Cloud Native Engineering, Migration to Cloud, VMware Exit
- FinOps
Data & AI/ML
- Data (Cloud Native / DataBricks / Snowflake)
- Machine Learning, AI/GenAI
Cybersecurity
- Infrastructure Security
- Application Security
- Data Security
- AI/Model Security
SDx & Digital Workspace (M365, G-suite)
- SDDC, SD-WAN, SDN, NetSec, Wireless/Mobility
- Email, Collaboration, Directory Services, Shared Files Services
Intuitive Services:
- Professional and Advisory Services
- Elastic Engineering Services
- Managed Services
- Talent Acquisition & Platform Resell Services
About the job:
Title: Server Hardware Migration Engineer
Start Date: Immediate
Position Type: Full Time
Location: Remote across India
Job Description:
We are looking for an experienced Server Hardware Migration Engineer ( Need Individual Contributor with 25-30% our Guidance fine with us) with a solid understanding of modern datacenter platforms, workload profiling, and infrastructure assessment. The ideal candidate should be capable of managing hardware refresh, platform rehosting, and guiding transitions to virtualized and cloud-native environments such as OpenStack, KVM, and VMware.
Key Responsibilities:
- Assess and plan server hardware migrations from legacy platforms (HP ProLiant, Dell PowerEdge, HPE c7000, Synergy, M1000e, UCS) to modern infrastructure
- Perform hardware lifecycle assessments, including BIOS/firmware audits, compatibility validation, and performance baselining
- Analyze current workloads (compute/storage/network) and determine best-fit platform (VMware, KVM, OpenStack, Bare Metal)
- Design and implement P2V, V2V, or B2V migration strategies using industry tools
- Coordinate with platform engineering to execute workload placement and platform modernization
- Document and maintain system inventories, network topology maps, and migration runbooks
- Work closely with application owners to determine critical workloads and migration windows
- Collaborate with platform SMEs (OpenStack, vSphere, Red Hat) for seamless handoffs and optimization
- Understand server I/O, NUMA architecture, firmware dependencies, storage controller configs, and cooling/power requirements for physical planning
- Participate in risk assessment and rollback planning for hardware and virtualization transitions
Required Skills & Experience:
- 6-10 years experience in server infrastructure or hardware engineering roles
- Strong knowledge of Dell EMC (PowerEdge, M1000e) and HPE (c7000, Synergy) platforms
- Experience with OpenStack (Nova, Ironic), KVM/libvirt, and VMware vSphere/ESXi
- Proficiency in firmware/driver compatibility, RAID, iLO/iDRAC, SMBIOS, UEFI/Legacy BIOS
- Experience with hardware inventory tools (OpenManage, OneView, iDRAC CLI, etc.)
- Exposure to workload characterization: compute-intensive, memory-bound, I/O bound
- Familiarity with Cloud Migration Planning or tools like Cloudamize, LiveOptics, RVTools
- Understanding of network/storage fabrics - FC/iSCSI/NVMe, vSwitch, SR-IOV, NIC teaming
- Knowledge of OS/platform compatibility (RHEL, Ubuntu, Windows Server, SUSE)
- Scripting (Python, Bash, PowerCLI) for automation and inventory
Preferred Qualifications:
- Certifications: VMware VCP-DCV, RHCE, or OpenStack Administrator
- Hands-on experience with OpenStack Ironic (for bare metal provisioning)
- Familiarity with infrastructure automation (Ansible, Terraform)
- Exposure to containerized workloads (OpenShift, Kubernetes) is a plus
- Experience migrating between heterogeneous platforms (KVM VMware Bare Metal)