Azure Virtual Desktop Engineer (AVD) | Automation Focus

Sigma Defense Systems

City of Rome (NY)

On-site

USD 95,000 - 136,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Dental and Vision Insurance

Medical Insurance with HSA/FSA/DFSA

Life and AD&D coverage

Employee Assistance Program

401(k) with company match

Paid Time Off (PTO)

Floating Holidays

Educational Assistance

Job summary

Sigma Defense Systems seeks a hands-on Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Engineer to manage Azure Virtual Desktop environments and related Azure services. The role emphasizes a strong automation mindset and collaboration with senior cloud, networking, and security engineers.

A US citizenship is required and DoD/regulatory experience is a plus. The candidate will deploy, configure, and maintain AVD components, optimize performance, and automate image and session management while ensuring secure

Qualifications

4+ years of relevant experience.
Professional experience supporting Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) or enterprise Windows desktop environments.
Hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD).
Working knowledge of Microsoft Azure infrastructure and services.
Experience configuring and managing AVD host pools, session hosts, workspaces, and application groups.
Experience administering and troubleshooting Windows 10/11 and/or Windows Server environments.
Experience with FSLogix profile management.
Understanding of Azure networking concepts and their impact on virtual desktop environments.
Working knowledge of Microsoft Entra ID, authentication, authorization, and Azure RBAC.
Experience troubleshooting user sessions, profiles, applications, authentication, networking, and performance issues.
Experience with PowerShell scripting and Windows administration.
Must be a U.S. citizen.

Responsibilities

Deploy, configure, administer, and maintain Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) environments within Microsoft Azure.
Configure and manage AVD host pools, session hosts, workspaces, application groups, and published desktops and applications.
Support pooled and personal desktop environments based on mission and user requirements.
Monitor AVD environments and troubleshoot user-session, performance, connectivity, authentication, application, and profile issues.
Build, maintain, test, and deploy standardized Windows desktop and session-host images.
Support automated image-management and deployment processes for AVD session hosts.
Configure and maintain FSLogix profiles and profile containers.
Support application installation, configuration, testing, packaging, and delivery.
Configure and maintain AVD scaling plans and optimize session-host utilization and performance.
Support Azure compute, storage, networking, and identity resources required by AVD.
Integrate AVD environments with Microsoft Entra ID, Azure RBAC, and other Azure identity services.
Support secure authentication and access-control requirements.
Work with Azure Network Engineers to troubleshoot network connectivity, DNS, routing, firewall, and private-access issues.
Work with cybersecurity engineers to implement system-hardening requirements and remediate vulnerabilities.
Support Azure Policy, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, and other security and governance capabilities.
Develop and maintain automation using PowerShell, Azure CLI, and Infrastructure as Code.
Monitor system health, capacity, utilization, and user experience.