Azure Virtual Desktop Engineer — Senior, Automation Focus

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation; Atlanta (GA); Remoto; USD 79.000 - 90.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

401(k) plan and contributions

Paid holidays and PTO

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Descrizione del lavoro

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation is seeking a Senior Azure Virtual Desktop Engineer to design, deploy, automate, and optimize Azure Virtual Desktop environments. You will lead the end‑to‑end lifecycle of the AVD platform, ensuring scalability, security, automation, and cost efficiency.

You will collaborate with multiple teams to deliver a modern virtual desktop experience, manage both pooled multi-user and personal desktop environments, and maintain comprehensive documentation.

Competenze

• 5+ years hands-on experience designing, deploying, and supporting Azure Virtual Desktop environments.
• Strong expertise in AVD architecture: Host Pools, Workspaces, Application Groups, Session Hosts, and user assignments.
• Understanding of Azure infrastructure services: Resource Groups, VNets, Subnets, NSGs and network security.
• Experience optimizing AVD environments for performance, scalability, and cost efficiency.
• Hands-on with PowerShell, Azure CLI, and IaC tools such as Terraform, Bicep, or ARM templates.
• Experience managing the full virtual desktop lifecycle: provisioning, image management, autoscaling, patching, and decommissioning.

Mansioni

• Design, build, and deploy AVD environments from sizing to production.
• Define AVD resource specs: VM SKUs, session host sizing, image selection, tagging.
• Configure and maintain Azure components: Resource Groups, VNets, Subnets, Host Pools, Workspaces, Application Groups, Session Hosts.
• Manage pooled and personal desktop environments per business requirements.
• Oversee user assignments, app group access, and host pool allocations.
• Monitor and optimize AVD costs via rightsizing, scaling, and cost reviews.
• Develop automation for provisioning, image management, autoscaling, patching, and decommissioning using IaC tools.
• Collaborate with identity, networking, security, and endpoint teams.

Conoscenze

Azure Virtual Desktop design

Automation scripting

Cross-functional collaboration

Cost optimization

Security and scalability

Strumenti

PowerShell

Azure CLI

Terraform

Bicep

ARM templates

Azure Automation

Descrizione del lavoro

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation is seeking a Senior Azure Virtual Desktop Engineer to design, deploy, automate, and optimize Azure Virtual Desktop environments. You will lead the end‑to‑end lifecycle of the AVD platform, ensuring scalability, security, automation, and cost efficiency.

You will collaborate with multiple teams to deliver a modern virtual desktop experience, manage both pooled multi-user and personal desktop environments, and maintain comprehensive documentation.