Senior AVD Specialist – Remote-First & High-Impact Platform

Xcede

England

On-site

GBP 70,000 - 100,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first environment

Job summary

Xcede is seeking an experienced Azure Virtual Desktop Subject Matter Expert to join our specialist infrastructure team, supporting a large-scale enterprise AVD environment. You will take ownership of a remote-first, business-critical platform, ensuring a secure, resilient, and high-performing end-user experience while collaborating with cloud, security and infrastructure colleagues.

Key duties include administering host pools, session hosts, application groups, FSLogix profiles, and image

Qualifications

4+ years' experience supporting Microsoft Azure infrastructure.
Hands-on experience with Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD).
Active UK Security Clearance (SC).
Terraform and IaC experience.
PowerShell scripting.

Responsibilities

Support and administer a large-scale Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) environment.
Manage host pools, session hosts, application groups and user access.
Build, maintain and optimise AVD images and golden images.
Administer FSLogix profiles and associated storage solutions such as Azure NetApp Files or equivalent.
Ensure platform availability, resilience and disaster recovery readiness.
Troubleshoot complex AVD performance, connectivity and user experience issues.
Monitor platform health and implement service improvements.
Work closely with infrastructure, cloud and security teams to maintain best practice.
Participate in a shared 1-in-3 on-call support rota.