What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Virtual Desktop Engineer position at Associa?
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Virtual Desktop Engineer to join our team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for working with the team to manage and support our Citrix virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) to ensure optimal performance, security, and user experience. This role requires expertise in deploying, configuring, and maintaining Citrix VDI solutions and ancillary systems, as well as providing technical support and troubleshooting. This role is hybrid and will have some onsite presence in our Richardson, Texas office. Must be local to the Dallas/Ft Worth metroplex.
Qualifications:
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide solution and design recommendations on a multi-cluster enterprise Citrix deployment.
- Manage and support an existing Citrix 2402 environment with over 3000 concurrent users running on VMWare ESXi, utilizing multi-user sessions in a server OS.
- Implement and manage user access policies, ensuring appropriate permissions and security protocols are in place while utilizing least privileged access.
- Provide escalation support related to end-user computing group’s operations, providing training and knowledgebase articles to level 1 and 2 as needed.
- Collaborate with monitoring team to ensure visibility and performance optimization of virtual desktop environments, ensuring a seamless user experience.
- Collaborate with security, database and network teams to ensure the security, availability and integrity of the VDI environment.
- Maintain documentation of the VDI environment, including system configurations, processes, and troubleshooting guides.
Qualifications and Experience:
- 10 years in IT with at least 5 years of experience supporting VDI solutions
- Ability to design, architect, and implement a Citrix or AVD environment from scratch.
- Knowledge of redundancy and scalability methods and solutions.
- Familiarity with thin-client management and configuration (e.g. Dell Wyse ThinOS and IGEL)
- Familiarity with Azure administration and/or Azure Virtual Desktops.
- Citrix NetScaler management and configuration (e.g. Load-balancing and Gateway).
- Experience configuring and supporting FSLogix profile management in an on-premises and/or cloud environment.
- Experience working in an agile environment utilizing a work management system for project tracking (e.g. JIRA, Asana, etc.)
- Citrix WEM (Workspace Environment Manager) experience
- Citrix Cloud Control Plane migration and management experience
- PowerShell scripting and tooling experience
- Azure Administration
- Azure Virtual Desktop and Azure VDI hosting