Platform Engineer – Nutanix

📍Host360 | Platform Engineering Team For engineers who love understanding how modern infrastructure actually works - not just using it.

Job Title : Platform Engineer – Nutanix Company : Host360 Location : Remote Type : Full Time Experience : 0–4 years Positions : 1 CTC - Upto 5 LPA (Experienced Members will be given more preference) Role Description Host360 is seeking an exceptional Platform Engineer to join our Platform Engineering team.

This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of cloud infrastructure by exploring emerging technologies, validating innovative ideas through hands-on experimentation, and transforming technical concepts into market-ready products using and deploying LLMs, AI Tools and self learning. You will operate at the intersection of engineering excellence, platform architecture, and product innovation.

This role is ideal for technologists who thrive on discovery, experimentation, and translating cutting-edge technical possibilities into real-world solutions that drive business value. ##What You'll Do 1.

Nutanix Infrastructure Engineering Deploy, configure, and manage Nutanix AHV clusters, Prism Central, and Prism Element across single and multi-site environments.

Administer Nutanix

Acropolis (AOS), AHV hypervisor, and associated storage fabric including distributed storage (DSF) and volume groups. Implement and maintain Nutanix Calm for infrastructure automation, blueprint design, and self-service provisioning workflows. Configure and manage Nutanix Flow (microsegmentation and network security policies) and Nutanix Files/Objects for NFS, SMB, and S3-compatible storage workloads.

Manage cluster upgrades, Life Cycle Manager (LCM) operations, and hardware replacements with minimal downtime. Perform capacity planning, right-sizing, and workload placement analysis using Nutanix X-Ray and performance monitoring tools. Troubleshoot hardware, hypervisor, storage, and networking issues across the Nutanix stack; liaise with Nutanix support for escalations. 2.

Technology Discovery &

• Innovation Research and evaluate emerging Nutanix capabilities (Xi Leap DR, Karbon Kubernetes, Xi Frame VDI, Cloud Clusters on AWS/Azure) to identify adoption opportunities.

Track

Nutanix product roadmap, NEXT community developments, and hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) industry trends. Assess new technologies for scalability, security, cost-efficiency, and operational impact before recommending adoption. Stay current on cloud-native architectures, automation frameworks, and infrastructure-as-code best practices. 3.

Proof of Concept (POC) Development &

• Prototyping Design and implement rapid POCs to validate new ideas and technical hypotheses Build reference architectures, experimental labs, and prototype environments Benchmark performance, reliability, cost, and operational complexity Identify technical risks, limitations, and operational considerations early in the innovation cycle Document findings with detailed analysis, trade-offs, and actionable recommendations 4.

Product Ideation &

Requirements Definition Convert validated technical concepts into structured product ideas Define target users, customer use cases, and clear value propositions Create comprehensive Product Requirement Documents (PRDs) including problem statements, objectives, functional/non-functional requirements, architecture overviews, security considerations, and dependency mapping Translate technical innovation into business outcomes and customer benefits Develop go-to-market readiness documentation for new platform capabilities 5.

Cloud Infrastructure Management &

• Operations Monitor cloud infrastructure for availability, performance, and operational health across multi-cloud environments Perform proactive capacity planning to support scalability and business growth objectives Provision, configure, and manage cloud compute resources with a focus on automation and repeatability Administer cloud storage systems ensuring performance, redundancy, and cost efficiency Manage virtual networking components including VPCs/VNets, subnets, routing tables, load balancers, and gateways Implement and maintain cloud-native monitoring, alerting, and observability tools Optimize resource utilization to control cloud spend and eliminate waste through Fin Ops best practices Support backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity solutions for cloud workloads Conduct routine infrastructure health checks and preventive maintenance Troubleshoot infrastructure-related alerts, service disruptions, and performance degradation Maintain comprehensive documentation of cloud architecture, configurations, and resource inventory Provide incident support and root cause analysis for cloud infrastructure issues Collaborate with security teams to identify and remediate cloud infrastructure vulnerabil