Infrastructure Engineer - Virualization

TensorWave • Las Vegas, NV

23d

About The Position

TensorWave is seeking a Virtualization Operations Engineer to focus on the day-to-day operation, stability, and performance of their virtualization platforms. This role is responsible for ensuring that hypervisor environments are reliable, performant, and scalable. This is a hands-on operations role working across hypervisors, virtual machines, and underlying infrastructure systems, supporting high-performance AI workloads across multiple data centers. The environment includes GPU-intensive systems, high-throughput networking, and rapidly scaling compute clusters.

Requirements

• 4–7+ years of experience in infrastructure, systems, or platform operations
• Hands-on experience operating Linux-based virtualization platforms, such as KVM/QEMU, Proxmox, VMware (with strong Linux fundamentals)
• Strong Linux systems knowledge, including process management, networking, disk and filesystem management
• Experience troubleshooting CPU and memory contention, disk I/O bottlenecks, network performance issues
• Familiarity with virtualization concepts: VM lifecycle, resource allocation, live migration
• Experience with infrastructure automation tools (e.g., Ansible or similar)
• Ability to work effectively during incidents and production issues

Nice To Haves

• Experience operating infrastructure at scale (100+ hosts)
• Familiarity with GPU-based systems or high-performance workloads, NUMA awareness and performance tuning
• Exposure to high-throughput networking (bonding, VLANs, SR-IOV), distributed or high-performance storage systems
• Experience working alongside Kubernetes or container platforms
• Experience in cloud or CSP environments

Responsibilities

• Operate and maintain large-scale virtualization environments (Proxmox and/or KVM-based systems)
• Manage the full lifecycle of virtual machines: provisioning, configuration, migration, decommissioning
• Monitor and respond to platform health issues, including host failures, VM performance degradation, resource contention (CPU, memory, disk, network)
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues across hypervisors, guest operating systems, storage and networking layers
• Execute infrastructure changes safely, including cluster expansions, host maintenance and upgrades, configuration updates
• Work with automation tools to standardize deployments, reduce manual intervention, improve operational consistency
• Collaborate with DevOps (automation and platform tooling), Network Engineering (connectivity and performance), Storage Engineering (I/O performance and reliability)
• Participate in incident response and root cause analysis
• Contribute to runbooks, documentation, and operational best practices

Benefits

• Stock Options
• 100% paid Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance for Employees
• Company Health Savings Account Contributions
• 100% paid Short Term and Long Term Disability Insurance for Employees
• Life and Voluntary Supplemental Insurance Options
• Other Insurance Options, such as Pet & Legal Insurance
• Various Supplementary Health Benefits, such as discounted Virtual Healthcare Appointments and Serious Illness Support
• Flexible Spending Account
• 401(k)
• Employee Assistance Program
• Flexible PTO
• Paid Holidays
• Parental Leave
• Other In-Office Perks

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed