Virtual Devices Platform Specialist

EDF Energy; Gloucester; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension scheme

EV leasing

Discount gym membership

Life assurance

Tech vouchers

Experience days

Job summary

EDF Energy is seeking a Platform Specialist within our Enterprise IT Virtual Devices team. You will provide technical leadership for enterprise virtual desktop services, aligning with long-term architecture and business goals.

You will design, deploy and support Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 at scale, manage host pools, storage and access controls, and collaborate across engineering, security and product teams. Hybrid working with UK travel is expected.

Qualifications

• Proven experience designing, implementing and supporting enterprise virtual desktop services at scale.
• Strong engineering background with ability to lead technical initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Virtual Devices platform, providing technical direction across Azure Virtual Desktop, Windows 365 and related cloud services.
• Act as a technical authority for enterprise virtual desktop and application delivery technologies.
• Drive technical strategy and engineering standards to deliver secure, scalable solutions.
• Oversee the Azure infrastructure and Azure Virtual Desktop environments supporting Virtual Devices services.
• Provide technical leadership across profile, storage and automation technologies (FSLogix, NetApp, Terraform, GitHub, GitHub Actions).
• Lead deployment pipelines and engineering tooling for secure and auditable delivery processes.
• Collaborate with product, architecture, security and operations teams to maintain resilient platforms.
• Oversee full lifecycle of virtual desktop services with business stakeholders to drive continuous improvement.

Skills

Azure Virtual Desktop design

Windows 365 design

Azure cloud infrastructure

FSLogix

NetApp storage

Terraform

GitHub

GitHub Actions

Mentoring engineers

Technical leadership

Communication skills

Incident management

Hybrid cloud

Tools

Terraform

GitHub

GitHub Actions

FSLogix

NetApp

Job description

About the Role

Working in our Enterprise IT function you'll be supporting our business to deliver its priorities and objectives. You'll be contributing to Helping Britain Achieve Net Zero. We understand our business needs and provide specialist advice and knowledge to mitigate risk and maximise success. We are exemplar and act with integrity in a challenging but rewarding environment.

We are seeking someone with passion, skills and experience to help our Digital Workplace team shape the future of our technology landscape.

The Opportunity

Reporting to the Enterprise Product Owner in the Virtual Devices team, the Platform Specialist will provide technical leadership and ensure our solutions align with long-term architectural principles and business objectives. This role acts as the technical lead for our Virtual Devices platform, providing leadership and direction to engineers responsible for delivering and operating our enterprise virtual desktop services.

Our Virtual Devices Product Area is responsible for a diverse portfolio of enterprise virtual desktop and remote access technologies, including Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD), Windows 365, Secure Browser and application virtualisation solutions. We are responsible for ensuring these platforms remain secure, reliable, scalable and future-ready.

You'll collaborate closely with colleagues across engineering, architecture, security, service management and product teams to solve complex technical challenges, reduce technical risk and drive continual improvement.

You'll join us on a salary starting from £50,000 per annum (depending on experience), with the potential for an annual bonus. This is a hybrid working role that balances time at home and on site to support collaboration and delivery. There will therefore be occasional travel to our offices within the UK.

If you are enthusiastic about delivering secure, reliable and innovative enterprise services and want to drive technical excellence, this is an exciting opportunity to help shape the future of our technology landscape.

Who You Are

To be successful in this role, you'll have strong experience designing, implementing and supporting enterprise virtual desktop services at scale.

You'll have a passion for technology, a strong engineering background and experience providing technical leadership within complex enterprise environments.

You will bring expertise and experience across the following areas:

• Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) and Windows 365 design, deployment and operational support
• Azure cloud infrastructure supporting enterprise end user computing services
• Configuration and management of host pools, golden images, application delivery and user access controls
• User profile and storage technologies including FSLogix and NetApp
• Monitoring and operational tooling such as Azure Insights and Zabbix
• Hybrid cloud environments spanning Azure, AWS and traditional on-premises infrastructure
• Experience providing technical leadership and mentoring engineers
• Strong communication skills, able to explain complex issues to non-technical audiences
• Experience working collaboratively with the wider Digital Workplace team and business colleagues to create a great place to work
• Excellent troubleshooting skills and experience handling high-severity incidents
• Experience balancing operational stability with the delivery of new capabilities

You're committed to health, safety, wellbeing and the environment, and carry out your role in a manner that enables us to be a sustainable business, financially, environmentally and socially.

To be appointed to this role, you will need to meet the criteria for Security Clearance (SC), which will ordinarily require you to have British residency for the last five years.

What You'll Be Doing

• Lead the Virtual Devices platform, providing technical direction across Azure Virtual Desktop, Windows 365 and related cloud services.
• Act as a technical authority for enterprise virtual desktop and application delivery technologies.
• Drive technical strategy, decision-making and engineering standards to deliver secure, scalable and reliable solutions.
• Oversee the Azure infrastructure and Azure Virtual Desktop environments supporting Virtual Devices services.
• Provide technical leadership across profile, storage and automation technologies, including FSLogix, NetApp, Terraform, GitHub and GitHub Actions.
• Lead deployment pipelines and engineering tooling, ensuring secure, automated and auditable delivery processes.
• Collaborate with product, architecture, security and operations teams to maintain resilient, high-performing platforms and manage technical risks.
• Oversee the full lifecycle of virtual desktop services, working with business stakeholders and partners to drive continuous improvement and service evolution.

Pay, Benefits and Culture

Alongside a starting salary from £50,000 per annum (depending on experience) and potential for an annual bonus, and a market-leading pension scheme, your package will include customisable benefits such as electric vehicle leasing, discounted gym membership, life assurance, tech vouchers, experience days and more.

At EDF, we believe there are multiple definitions of what it means to succeed. That's why we offer you the freedom to develop a career that’s unique to you. Here, Success is Personal. It's your journey, powered by us.

Everyone is welcome at EDF; we're committed to building a workforce that reflects gender balance, social mobility and inclusion of minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQ+ communities and those with disabilities. As a Disability Confident employer, we will support applicants requiring adjustments.

Closing date for applications: Tuesday 1st September

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