VDI Engineer

General Dynamics Information Technology; Henegouwen; On-site; EUR 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Growth opportunities

Internal mobility support

Rewards program

Military-friendly workplace

Job summary

General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc. is seeking a VDI Engineer in Mons, Belgium to design, implement, and maintain resilient Horizon-based virtual desktop services for NATO SOFCOM.

You will manage DEM configurations, performance monitoring, and cross-site connectivity with a focus on high availability and rapid incident response. The role requires 5+ years in VDI, VMware horizons, and COOP planning, with relevant certifications and an active security posture.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required; additional years of experience can substitute for degree
• 5+ years of related experience for VDI engineering role
• VMware Horizon and DEM expertise required; COOP planning experience a plus
• Certifications: IAT Level II or higher, VCP, ITIL Foundation within 90 days of hire

Responsibilities

• Maintain Horizon control-plane and desktop-pool configurations and profile-management integrations.
• Support image engineering, pool refresh, patching, testing, and delivery of virtual desktops.
• Troubleshoot brokers, gateways, sessions, authentication, performance, and display protocols.
• Coordinate ESXi/vCenter, storage, networking, and MECM dependencies with engineers.
• Ensure maintenance, capacity monitoring, HA checks, and COOP readiness.
• Document pool configurations, inventories, user experience issues, and changes.
• Apply SRE practices to Horizon/VDI services including alerting and dashboards.

Skills

VMware Horizon

DEM

COOP Implementation

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

IAT Level II or higher

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)

ITIL Foundation

Tools

VMware vSphere

Job description

VDI Engineer

Advance how our customers operate while you advance your career. Join GDIT as a VDI Engineer and build an impactful career in enterprise IT, collaborating with people who are driven and resourceful like you.

MEANINGFUL WORK AND PERSONAL IMPACT

As a VDI Engineer, the work you’ll do at GDIT will be impactful to the mission of NATO SOFCOM. You will play a crucial role in providing resilient VMware Horizon virtual desktop services, administering Dynamic Environment Manager (DEM) for consistent user experience, improving platform observability and site reliability, and planning/testing VDI support for the upcoming SOFCOM continuity-of-operations (COOP) site.

• Maintain approved VMware Horizon control-plane and desktop-pool configurations, entitlements and profile-management integrations.
• Support golden image engineering, pool refresh/recomposition, authorized patching, testing and delivery of virtual desktop services.
• Troubleshoot brokers, gateways, sessions, authentication, performance, display protocols and virtual endpoint access.
• Coordinate ESXi/vCenter, storage, networking, identity and MECM dependencies with the responsible technical engineers.
• Support approved maintenance, capacity monitoring, high availability checks and VDI recovery exercises.
• Document pool configurations, virtual endpoint inventories, user experience issues and approved changes.
• Administer and troubleshoot approved VMware Dynamic Environment Manager (DEM) capabilities, including user environment settings, profile personalization, conditional policies, application configuration, user settings capture/restore and integration with Horizon desktop pools; coordinate with FSLogix or equivalent profile-container technologies where actually deployed.
• Apply site reliability engineering practices to Horizon/VDI services: define and report approved service-level indicators, proactively monitor connection success, session-launch latency, logon performance, session stability, resource utilization and desktop-pool health; create actionable alerting, dashboards and incident/problem runbooks.
• Engineer and validate reliable delivery of virtual desktop services for the planned SOFCOM continuity-of-operations (COOP) site, including dependencies on Horizon brokers/connection servers, Unified Access Gateways, identity/AD, DNS, PKI, storage, networking, user profile/data availability and approved cross-site connectivity.
• Develop and execute Government-approved COOP readiness assessments, tabletop and technical exercises, controlled failover/failback tests, alternate-site desktop-pool activation and user-access verification against Government-established recovery time and recovery point objectives (RTO/RPO), as applicable.
• Perform capacity and failure-domain analysis for primary and alternate-site Horizon services; recommend high availability, load distribution, image/profile replication or recovery design improvements, and test changes only after approved engineering/security review.
• Provide cross-functional troubleshooting of Windows desktop and server infrastructure, VMware vSphere, endpoint image management, authentication, TCP/IP/network segmentation, storage and security controls in support of end-to-end VDI service restoration.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED

Bring your technology expertise and drive for innovation to GDIT. The VDI Engineer must have:

• Education: Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science. Additional years of experience can be used in lieu of degree requirement.
• Experience: 5+ years of related experience
• Technical skills: VMWare, DEM, COOP Implementation,
• Certifications: IAT Level II or higher, VMware Certified Professional (VCP), and ITIL Foundation (within 90 days of hire)
• Security clearance level: Active Secret required to start
• Location: Full-time, on-site in Mons, Belgium
• Belgian SOFA Requirement: 6-12 week review process submitted to the Belgian government by GDIT on the applicant’s behalf. Request will be submitted after candidate is chosen.

GDIT IS YOUR PLACE

At GDIT, the mission is our purpose, and our people are at the center of everything we do.

• Growth: AI-powered career tool that identifies career steps and learning opportunities
• Support: An internal mobility team focused on helping you achieve your career goals
• Rewards: Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages, 401K with company match, and competitive pay and paid time off
• Community: Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace

OWN YOUR OPPORTUNITY

Explore an enterprise IT career at GDIT and you’ll find endless opportunities to grow alongside colleagues who share your desire to drive operations forward.

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