Our mission is simply stated:ERS offers competitive benefits to enhance the lives of its members.Each team member across the agency contributes to our ongoing success. ERS operates in a hybrid work environment, with flexible work schedules available to all employees.

Rewarding opportunity for an experienced VDI Administrator to perform highly advanced work including design, delivery, maintenance, administration and innovation of the Virtual Desktop systems ensuring alignment with ERS strategic goals, business needs and management priorities. Work involves highly advanced operational tasks and projects related to the systems lifecycle, including analysis, design, innovation, implementation, integration, evaluation, testing, documentation, training, monitoring, troubleshooting, maintenance, administration and security of infrastructure, systems, services and applications. Candidates identifying as a VDI subject matter expert are strongly encouraged to apply.

Essential Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• VDI Infrastructure Setup and Configuration: Conducts design, implementation, administration, and support of the virtual desktop infrastructure including VMware data-center products, Horizon View and related components, server and data storage systems and systems software. Ensures capacity, performance, usability, security, reliability, modularity and sustainability.

• User Access and Management: Manages virtual desktop environment user profiles, roles and groups using role-based best practices and ensuring user profile data is adequately and appropriately permissioned, located and stored.

• Virtual Desktop Deployment and Maintenance: Conducts design, implementation, administration, and support of virtual desktops. This includes creating and managing virtual machine templates, deploying virtual desktop pools, configuring group policies, installing, configuring and updating system and desktop applications to ensure optimal user experience and productivity while maintaining security and current update levels.

• Performance Monitoring, Optimization and Issue Resolution: Monitors the virtual desktop environment and take necessary steps to optimize efficiency and improve performance. This includes investigating and diagnosing problems, coordinating with other teams and vendors as necessary, and implementing solutions to optimize the user experience and minimize disruptions to end users.

• Innovation: Conducts assessment, planning and design review sessions with ERS staff to gather information concerning the current environment. Researches, assesses, and evaluates new and developing technologies to determine suitability for current and future agency enterprise computing needs. Provides recommendations including new features, licensing requirements, high-availability, identity integration and risk assessment as appropriate.

• Documentation and Training: Develops and documents all aspects of the VDI environment as well as best practices and operating procedures. Actively collaborates with and trains Service Desk staff and others to ensure proper troubleshooting and other methods, and to ensure the overall desktop user experience is polished, consistent and meets customer needs. Performs analysis, validation, and revision of existing documents for currency, accuracy, efficiency, and effectiveness.

• Participates in disaster recovery including planning, documentation, backup management, and exercises to ensure preparedness to respond to disasters and other unplanned situations and events which could impact system availability for business operations.

Required Minimum Qualifications: Your application for employment must reflect how you meet each of the following minimum qualifications:

1) Graduation from an accredited four-year college or university with major course work in data processing, computer science, management information systems, business or related field. Each year of related experience over the required minimum may be substituted for one year (30 semester hours) of required college credit.

2) Five (5) years of experience with Desktop Virtualization Technologies such as VMware Horizon View or Citrix.

3) Three (3) years of experience in Windows system administration including server operating systems and Active Directory.

Preferred Qualifications: Your application for employment should reflect how you meet the following preferred qualifications:

4) VMware Certified Professional - Desktop and Mobility (VCP-DTM),MCSE,CompTIA Server , Security and similar certifications.

5) Experience scripting, automation skills and experience with PowerShell, task scheduler, logon group policies.

PLEASE NOTE: All applications should contain complete job history entries, which includes job title, dates of employment, name of employer, supervisor's name and phone number and a description of duties performed. If this information is not submitted, your application may be rejected because it is incomplete. Resumes do not take the place of this required information.

Other Information: This is not a remote only position. This position may require access to privileged, confidential, or sensitive data. ERS will conduct either a TXDPS or FBI criminal history check on all new hires. For more information about this policy inquiries can be made to employment@ers.texas.gov.

Military Occupational Specialty Codes:

Veterans, Reservists or Guardsmen with experience in the Military Occupational Specialty (https://hr.sao.texas.gov/Compensation/MilitaryCrosswalk/MOSC_InformationTechnology.pdf) along with the minimum qualifications listed above may meet the minimum requirements and are highly encouraged to apply. Please contact Human Resources at employment@ers.texas.gov with questions or for additional information.

How to Apply: Ready to join the dedicated, customer-focused team at ERS? Submit the following to the ERS Human Resources Office:

A State of Texas Application for Employment submitted online through CAPPS Recruit.

• Use the link below to create a CAPPS Recruit account and build your profile on the “My JobPage” tab in the upper left corner of the screen.

• https://capps.taleo.net/careersection/327/jobsearch.ftl?lang=en

• Once your profile is complete, click on the “Job Search” tab in the upper left corner of the screen to view available career opportunities and submit your application.

• Note: Resumes will be accepted only as supplements to a State of Texas Application for Employment.

Applications submitted through Work in Texas:

If you apply for an ERS position via Work in Texas https://www.workintexas.com/vosnet/Default.aspx, you will also need to complete a supplemental questions form. For more details, refer to the instructions in the email you receive from CAPPS Recruit.

Please contact a Human Resources representative if you need assistance or require accommodation during the application process.

Email: Employment@ers.texas.gov

Web: www.ers.texas.gov

Relay Texas TDD: (800) 735-2989

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/employees-retirement-system-of-texas/

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