What are the responsibilities and job description for the SOFTWARE VIRTUALIZATION ENGINEER position at NorthHill Technology?
Our client, a fast-growing Federal Integrator, is looking for a Software Virtualization Engineer to support the virtualization of a variety of mission applications supporting the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency systems. You’ll be at the forefront of innovation and play a meaningful part in improving the operation of the systems that matter most.
Responsibilities:
- Development of Virtualized Packages for Mission Baseline Applications
- Applications will be consumed both by VDI sessions and thick clients
- Applications include those with plugins and advanced graphics requirements
- Work with application testers and mission SME's to validate mission application behavior
- Incorporate any required sequencing changes into the app sequencing process
- Identify facets of user application settings (registry, AppData, etc.) that need to be persisted across sessions in a non-persistent VDI environment
- Identify automation opportunities for application sequencing and work with the engineering team to streamline the sequencing process for mission applications, once established
- Assist the virtualization team and VDI team with application delivery infrastructure configuration, as needed
- Improve backup/Disaster Recovery and Continuity of Operations.
- Articulating knowledge, discoveries, designs, etc. rapidly and concisely in written detailed designs, test plans and test cases, implementation plans, operational guides, and training guides under project management time and cost-constrained deadlines.
- Performing work without appreciable direction and exercising considerable latitude in the determination of technical objectives of assignments.
- Working with VMware software defined data center products and tools for troubleshooting and performance tuning.
- Analyze, test, and apply regular security patches and software updates as required
- In-depth and up-to-date knowledge of Virtualization products and capabilities
- Ability to analyze and apply virtualization product capabilities to changing program requirements
- Create and maintain technical documentation and provide training to other team members
- Incident resolution and fulfillment of software requests
- Bachelor's Degree and 5 years of experience with Systems Administration/Virtualization. (Additional Education, Training, Certifications or Work Experience can be substituted in lieu of degree or work experience)
- 8140.01M IAT Level II certification
- 3 years of experience with VDI technologies, including VMware Horizon, Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops, or Microsoft Remote Desktop Services.
- 2 years of experience with Citrix XenApp or comparable application virtualization technology (Microsoft App-V, FlexApp, App Volumes, etc)
- Experience with Windows Desktop (10/11) and Server (2012 ) Operating Systems
- Utilize scripting and automation tools (e.g., PowerShell) to automate tasks and manage deployments.
- Experience with non-persistent desktop environments
- Experience with profile management solutions such as VMware DEM or Liquidware Labs' Profile-Unity
- Familiarity with ActiveDirectory, specifically Group Policy
- Understanding of load-balancing application delivery services
- Understand principles of ITIL
- Able to create architectural design documents and presentations
- Able to test and apply hardware and software updates
- Understand architectural frameworks such as TOGAF
- Virtualization compute environment certification, i.e. VMware Certified Associate for Data Center Virtualization (VCA-DCV)
- Familiarity with ticketing systems (Service , ServiceNow, Remedy, etc)