VDI Engineer

General Dynamics Information Technology; Mons-en-Montois; On-site; EUR 97,000 - 124,000; Full time

Job summary

General Dynamics Information Technology is seeking a VDI Engineer to advance NATO SOFCOM operations with resilient VMware Horizon environments. You will administer DEM for consistent user experiences, improve platform observability, and plan/testing for the upcoming COOP site.

This role emphasizes robust troubleshooting across brokers, gateways, and sessions, and cross-site coordination. The position requires 5+ years of related IT experience, Active Secret clearance, VCP/ITIL, and on-site work

Qualifications

• 5+ years of related IT experience
• Active Secret clearance required to start
• US Citizenship required
• Experience with VMware Horizon, DEM and COOP planning
• ITIL Foundation within 90 days of hire; VCP; IAT Level II certifications
• On-site in Mons, Belgium; Belgian SOFA process applies

Responsibilities

• Maintain approved VMware Horizon control-plane and desktop-pool configurations, entitlements and profile-management integrations
• Support golden image engineering, pool refresh/recomposition, 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 other engineers
• Support maintenance, capacity monitoring, high availability checks and VDI recovery exercises
• Document pool configurations, inventories and changes; log user experience issues
• Administer DEM capabilities including user env settings and policy configurations; coordinate with profile-container techs
• Apply site reliability engineering practices: define SLIs, monitor metrics, create dashboards and runbooks
• Engineer and validate delivery of VDI for COOP site, including dependencies and cross-site connectivity
• Develop COOP readiness assessments, tabletop and technical exercises, failover tests and verification of recovery objectives
• Perform capacity and failure-domain analysis; advise on high availability and recovery design

Skills

Disaster Recovery

Virtual Desktop

VMware

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Job description

Job Qualifications

Disaster Recovery (DR), Virtual Desktop, VMware

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.

Type of Requisition

Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess

Secret

Clearance Level Must Be Able To Obtain

Secret

Public Trust/Other Required

None

Job Family

IT Infrastructure and Operations

Skills

Disaster Recovery (DR), Virtual Desktop, VMware

Certifications

None

Experience

5 + years of related experience

US Citizenship Required

Yes

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

• 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

• 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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The likely salary range for this position is $107,744 - $138,000. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Total compensation for international positions varies by tax, social security, and immigration statuses, as well as location. Generally, an international assignment may include allowances, premium uplifts, and/or relocation or transportation benefits, above base salary range noted.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Travel Required

Less than 10%

Telecommuting Options

Onsite

Work Location

BEL Mons - Supreme HQ Allied Powers EU (APC155)

Total Rewards At GDIT

Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

Our Identity Verification Process

As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during virtual interviews. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud. By proceeding, you authorize the collection, processing, and use of your biometric data for identity verification and security purposes.

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