Azure Virtual Desktop Engineer — Scale, Automate, Optimize

Cognizant; Dover (DE); Remoto; USD 79.000 - 90.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off

401(k) plan and contributions

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Descrizione del lavoro

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation in the United States is seeking a Senior Azure Virtual Desktop Engineer to design, deploy, and optimize Azure Virtual Desktop environments, supporting pooled multi-user and personal desktops, while ensuring security and cost efficiency.

You will lead end-to-end lifecycle, size hosts, configure resources, manage host pools and workspaces, automate provisioning with PowerShell and IaC, and collaborate with identity, networking, and security teams.

Competenze

• 5+ years hands-on experience designing, deploying, and supporting Azure Virtual Desktop environments.
• Strong expertise in AVD architecture including Host Pools, Workspaces, Application Groups, and session hosts.
• Solid understanding of Azure infrastructure services (Resource Groups, VNets, Subnets, NSGs).
• Experience optimizing AVD for performance, scalability, and cost efficiency.
• Hands-on with PowerShell, Azure CLI, Azure Automation, and IaC tools like Terraform/Bicep/ARM templates.
• Experience managing the full virtual desktop lifecycle (provisioning, image management, autoscaling, patching).

Mansioni

• Design, build, and deploy AVD environments from sizing to production implementation.
• Define resource specs, VM SKUs, session host sizing, and image selection.
• Configure and maintain Azure infra components (Resource Groups, VNets, Host Pools).
• Design and manage pooled and personal desktop environments per requirements.
• Administer user assignments, app group access, and host pool allocations.
• Monitor and optimize AVD costs through rightsizing and scaling strategies.
• Develop automation for provisioning, image management, autoscaling, and patching using PowerShell/Azure CLI and IaC.
• Collaborate with identity, networking, security, and endpoint teams; maintain docs and runbooks.

Conoscenze

Azure Virtual Desktop

5+ years experience

Cloud Infrastructure

Automation scripting

PowerShell

Azure CLI

Infrastructure as Code

Image management

Session Hosts/Host Pools

Strumenti

Terraform

Bicep

ARM templates

Intune

FSLogix

Azure Compute Gallery

Microsoft Entra ID

Azure Bastion

BeyondTrust

Descrizione del lavoro

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation in the United States is seeking a Senior Azure Virtual Desktop Engineer to design, deploy, and optimize Azure Virtual Desktop environments, supporting pooled multi-user and personal desktops, while ensuring security and cost efficiency.

You will lead end-to-end lifecycle, size hosts, configure resources, manage host pools and workspaces, automate provisioning with PowerShell and IaC, and collaborate with identity, networking, and security teams.