Senior Infrastructure Engineer (Citrix/Azure VD)

Senior Infrastructure Engineer (Citrix/Azure VD)
Two days per week in the office

My client requires a Senior Infrastructure Engineer (Citrix/Azure VD) to join them as the Technical lead within the firm.

They are looking for someone with a background in Citrix who can be the SME for the estate whilst moving them across to Azure Virtual Desktop (and then become the SME in this)

Duties:

- Administer the day-to-day operations of the current Citrix infrastructure and service, as well as any future adopted VDI technology.
- Work with multiple teams support and administer the full life cycle of VDI infrastructure operations, services, projects and initiatives.
- Manage and maintain the VDI Work Plan and the delivery of the VDI Annual Continuous Service Improvement Plan.

Requirements:

- You will be an experienced enterprise Citrix SME and Engineer, comfortable being the highest point of escalation for Citrix issues in a high uptime and change controlled environment.
- Possess a focus on managing, maintaining, supporting and continuously improving the existing Citrix environment. The role will be the technical lead on VDI projects.
- Am engineering level background in Citrix and VDI roles
- The ability to be quickly comfortable with their Citrix technology stack comprising a new Citrix DaaS with two Legacy CVAD environments, VMware-based on-prem hosting transitioning to XenServer, ShareFile, and dedicated storage infrastructure built on PureStorage arrays.

Technical Skills:

- Demonstrable experience of Citrix XenDesktop, XenServer, Citrix Cloud, Azure Virtual Desktop, Active Directory, EntraID, Group Policies, Citrix Profile Management (FSLogix), NetScaler, VMware ESX/Hyper-V and server administration.
- Expertise in applications packaging, databases, storage, networking, and security.
- Knowledge of PowerShell Scripting and automation
- Strong experience of Citrix service upgrades and migrations
- Experience with hybrid VDI environments and transitioning between Citrix and Microsoft VDI desirable
- Ideally possess recent Citrix and Microsoft certifications (eg, Citrix Certified Professional, Microsoft Certified: Azure Virtual Desktop Specialty) is desirable
- Experience of ITIL environments and processes, preferably using ServiceNow

Senior Infrastructure Engineer (Citrix/Azure VD)
Two days per week in the office

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