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About the Company:

Gruve is an innovative Software Services startup dedicated to empowering Enterprise Customers in managing their Data Life Cycle. We specialize in Cyber Security, Customer Experience, Infrastructure, and advanced technologies such as Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. Our mission is to assist our customers in their business strategies utilizing their data to make more intelligent decisions. As a well-funded early-stage startup, Gruve offers a dynamic environment with strong customer and partner networks.

Why Gruve:

At Gruve, we foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive and contribute their best work. If you’re passionate about technology and eager to make an impact, we’d love to hear from you.

Gruve is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and thank all who apply; however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

Position summary:

We are looking for a Senior Software Development Engineer with 5-8 years of experience specializing in infrastructure deployment automation and VMware workload migration. The ideal candidate will have expertise in Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), VMware vSphere, vMotion, HCX, Terraform, Kubernetes, and AI POD managed services. You will be responsible for automating infrastructure provisioning, migrating workloads from VMware environments to cloud and hybrid infrastructures, and optimizing AI/ML deployments.

Key Roles & Responsibilities

• Automate infrastructure deployment using Terraform, Ansible, and Helm for VMware and cloud environments.
• Develop and implement VMware workload migration strategies, including vMotion, HCX, SRM (Site Recovery Manager), and lift-and-shift migrations.
• Migrate VMware-based workloads to public cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) or hybrid cloud environments.
• Optimize and manage AI POD workloads on VMware and Kubernetes-based environments.
• Leverage VMware HCX for live and bulk workload migrations, ensuring minimal downtime and optimal performance.
• Automate virtual machine provisioning and lifecycle management using VMware vSphere APIs, PowerCLI, or vRealize Automation.
• Integrate VMware workloads with Kubernetes for containerized AI/ML workflows.
• Ensure workload high availability and disaster recovery post-migration using VMware SRM, vSAN, and backup strategies.
• Monitor and troubleshoot migration performance using vRealize Operations, Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK.
• Develop and optimize CI/CD pipelines to automate workload migration, deployment, and validation.
• Ensure security and compliance for workloads before, during, and after migration.
• Collaborate with cloud architects to design hybrid cloud solutions supporting AI/ML workloads.

Basic Qualifications

• 5–8 years of experience in infrastructure automation, VMware workload migration, and cloud integration.
• Expertise in VMware vSphere, ESXi, vMotion, HCX, SRM, vSAN, and NSX-T.
• Hands-on experience with workload migration tools such as VMware HCX, CloudEndure, AWS Application Migration Service, and Azure Migrate.
• Proficiency in Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform, Ansible, PowerCLI, and vRealize Automation.
• Strong experience with Kubernetes (EKS, AKS, GKE) and containerized AI/ML workloads.
• Experience in public cloud migration (AWS, Azure, GCP) for VMware-based workloads.
• Hands-on knowledge of CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, ArgoCD, and Tekton.
• Strong scripting and automation skills in Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
• Familiarity with disaster recovery, backup, and business continuity planning in VMware environments.
• Experience in performance tuning and troubleshooting for VMware-based workloads.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with NVIDIA GPU orchestration (e.g., KubeFlow, Triton, RAPIDS).
• Familiarity with Packer for automated VM image creation.
• Exposure to Edge AI deployments, federated learning, and AI inferencing at scale.
• Contributions to open-source infrastructure automation projects.

VMware Horizon / View, VMware vSphere, NSX • Azure Cloud VDI/AVD – Azure Virtual Desktop • VMware Virtualization • Hyper converged Infrastructure, VSAN, Storage devices SAN/NAS etc.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Designing, implementing, testing and deployment of the virtual desktop infrastructure
• Facilitating the transition of the VDI solution to Operations, providing operational and end user support when required.
• Acting as the single point of contact for all technical engagements on the VDI infrastructure.
• Creation of documented standard processes and procedures for all aspects of VDI infrastructure, administration and management.
• Working with the vendor in assessing the VDI infrastructure architecture from a deployment, performance, security and compliance perspective.

 Knowledge around security best practices and understanding of vulnerability assessments.

• Providing mentoring and guidance to other VDI Administrators.

• Document designs, development plans, operations procedures for the VDI solution.