AVD Consultant - Contractual

Kaufman Rossin; India; Sur place; INR 1 800 000 - 2 400 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Kaufman Rossin Professional Services Private Limited is seeking an experienced Azure Virtual Desktop specialist in India. You will review and secure the AVD design, validate architecture against best practices, and drive remediation.

You will own image management, app delivery, and pilot/cutover plans, while optimizing costs and enabling global users, including US and India. The role requires 5+ years in end-user computing/VDI, 2+ years hands-on AVD, and strong Azure networking/security skills.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of end-user computing, virtual desktop, or cloud infrastructure
• At least 2 years hands-on Azure Virtual Desktop in production
• Experience migrating from Citrix or similar VDI for 500+ users
• Hands-on experience with Nerdio Manager for Enterprise—auto-scale, image mgmt, host pool admin
• Strong Azure networking and security skills—virtual networks, private endpoints, private DNS, Entra ID Conditional Access
• Experience with image management and app delivery—MSIX app attach, FSLogix, golden image patching
• Familiarity with Azure cost management—Reservations, Savings Plans, scaling schedules
• Experience with Azure Monitor and alerting for AVD environments
• Ability to design and execute pilot, cutover, and rollback plans for large user populations
• Experience supporting globally distributed users, ideally US and India
• Excellent writ

Responsabilités

• Review and secure the AVD design with focus on networking, DNS, storage, and Conditional Access
• Validate architecture against Microsoft and Nerdio best practices; document findings and remediation
• Close gaps in identity, network segmentation, and data protection
• Own golden image build, versioning, patching; define app delivery approach (MSIX app attach or packaging)
• Guide legacy apps to fit AVD; provide path forward
• Right-size host pools based on utilization and user profiles; tune auto-scale
• Optimize costs with Reservations or Azure Savings Plans; align schedules to work hours
• Plan migration, run pilots, and define rollback and decommissioning steps
• Set up monitoring, dashboards, runbooks; establish health checks and escalation paths
• Transfer knowledge through sessions with KR IT; identify automation opportunities

Connaissances

Azure Virtual Desktop

Nerdio Manager for Enterprise

Citrix migration experience

Azure networking

Azure Monitor

Cost optimization

Pilot and cutover planning

Global user support

Excellent writ

Outils

Nerdio Manager for Enterprise

MSIX app attach

FSLogix

Azure Monitor

Azure Networking

Description du poste

Why We Stand Out Seeking a new challenge where your professional and personal aspirations are not only possible but supported? Kaufman Rossin might be just the place for you! Kaufman Rossin Professional Services Private Limited's (the \"Company\") offices are located in the World Trade Center (WTC) in Bangalore, Karnataka, India, and at Udyog Vihar, in Gurgaon, Haryana, India. The Bangalore office provides a range of services, including risk management, corporate governance, tax, assurance, and family office services. Out of the Gurgaon office, we render highly specialized back-office alternative investment services for global hedge funds and related fund types. As one of the top accounting firms in the US, our foundation is \"people first\". In the words of James Kaufman, one of our founders, \"We prioritize our people, their development, and their well-being. Our values are translated into action every day.\" Kaufman Rossin, headquartered in Miami, Florida has been celebrated as the Best Place to Work in South Florida more than a dozen times. The firm has grown to over 700 employees, with offices spanning the tri-county area and sister entities, Kaufman Rossin Wealth and Kaufman Rossin Alternative Investment Services. The Firm is ranked 49th among the top 100 firms in the US by Inside Public Accounting 2023. Internationally, the Firm has offices in Bangalore and Haryana in India and the Ivory Coast in Africa.

Note that this is a contractual role.

How You'll Contribute:

• Architecture & Security Review Provide a second set of eyes on the existing AVD design - networking, private DNS, storage, and Conditional Access
• Validate the architecture against Microsoft and Nerdio best practices; document findings with prioritized remediation
• Close identified gaps in identity, network segmentation, and data protection
• Image & Application Strategy Own golden image build, versioning, and patching process Define app delivery approach - MSIX app attach, baked into the image, or packaged - on an app-by-app basis Provide guidance and a path forward for legacy applications that do not fit cleanly into AVD
• Sizing & Performance Right-size host pools based on real utilization and user profiles Tune Nerdio auto-scale settings for performance and cost Optimize US-India latency and end-user experience, including connection quality and profile/storage performance
• Cost Optimization Evaluate and recommend Reserved Instances or Azure Savings Plans Build scaling schedules aligned to US and India working hours Recommend storage tiering and ongoing cost governance practices
• Migration & Cutover Plan and run pilot groups, with feedback loops before each wave Partner with IT and business leaders on user communication and support readiness Define and test a rollback plan Recommend how long to run Citrix and AVD in parallel, and lead production cutover and Citrix decommissioning
• Monitoring & Operations Set up alerting and dashboards in Nerdio and Azure Monitor Write and maintain operational runbooks for day-to-day support, incident response, and scaling events Define health checks and escalation paths for the AVD environment
• Knowledge Transfer & Mentorship Deliver documented handoff for every component built or changed Run working sessions with KR IT staff so the team can operate the environment independently Identify automation and process improvement opportunities

What Skills You'll Bring:

• 5+ years of experience in end-user computing, virtual desktop, or cloud infrastructure, with at least 2 years of hands-on Azure Virtual Desktop in production
• Experience migrating from Citrix (DaaS or on-premises) or a comparable VDI platform, ideally for 500+ users
• Hands-on experience with Nerdio Manager for Enterprise - auto-scale, image management, and host pool administration
• Strong Azure networking and security skills - virtual networks, private endpoints, private DNS, and Entra ID Conditional Access
• Experience with image management and app delivery - MSIX app attach, FSLogix, and golden image patching
• Familiarity with Azure cost management - Reservations, Savings Plans, and scaling schedules
• Experience with Azure Monitor and alerting for AVD environments
• Ability to design and execute pilot, cutover, and rollback plans for large user populations
• Experience supporting globally distributed users, ideally across US and India
• Excellent writ