Azure Virtual Desktop Engineer - VDI & Automation

Sigma-Defense; City of Rome (NY); On-site; USD 95,000 - 136,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Dental and Vision Insurance

Medical Insurance (HSA, FSA, DFSA)

Life and AD&D coverage

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

401(k) with company matching

160 hours PTO

12 holidays

Educational Assistance

Competitive Salary

Job summary

Sigma Defense is seeking a hands-on Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Engineer with strong Azure Virtual Desktop expertise. The role focuses on deploying, configuring, and maintaining AVD environments while collaborating with security, networking, and automation teams.

The ideal candidate has 4+ years in VDI/AVD, practical Azure experience, and a path to contribute to DoD/regulatory deployments. A US citizenship and active TS/SCI eligibility are required.

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 profiles.
• 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 environments.
• 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 session, performance, connectivity, and authentication 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 with Microsoft Entra ID, Azure RBAC, and other identity services.
• Support secure authentication and access-control requirements.
• Collaborate with Network and Cybersecurity teams to address vulnerabilities and hardening.
• Develop automation using PowerShell, Azure CLI, and IaC tools.
• Monitor system health, capacity, utilization, and user experience.

Skills

4+ years experience

PowerShell scripting

AVD administration

Azure networking

Education

Associate's degree in Information Technology

Tools

Azure Virtual Desktop

Microsoft Entra ID

Terraform

Bicep

ARM templates

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Job description

Sigma Defense is seeking a hands-on Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Engineer with strong Azure Virtual Desktop expertise. The role focuses on deploying, configuring, and maintaining AVD environments while collaborating with security, networking, and automation teams.

The ideal candidate has 4+ years in VDI/AVD, practical Azure experience, and a path to contribute to DoD/regulatory deployments. A US citizenship and active TS/SCI eligibility are required.