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 with HSA/FSA/DFSA

Life and AD&D coverage

Employee Assistance Program

401(k) Plan with Company Matching

PTO 160 hours/year

12 holidays

Educational Assistance

Highly Competitive Salary

Job summary

Sigma Defense is seeking a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Engineer to administer Azure Virtual Desktop in a secure, government-aligned environment. You will deploy and manage AVD host pools, session hosts, workspaces, and application groups, while collaborating with cloud, networking, and security teams.

The ideal candidate has 4+ years of VDI experience, hands-on AVD expertise, PowerShell scripting, FSLogix, and a working knowledge of Entra ID and RBAC. U.S.

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.

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.
• Develop and maintain automation using PowerShell, Azure CLI, and Infrastructure as Code.

Skills

AVD engineering

PowerShell

FSLogix

Entra ID/Azure RBAC

DoD/reg environments

Azure networking

Education

Associate’s degree in IT

Tools

Azure Virtual Desktop

Azure CLI

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Bicep/ARM templates

Job description

Sigma Defense is seeking a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Engineer to administer Azure Virtual Desktop in a secure, government-aligned environment. You will deploy and manage AVD host pools, session hosts, workspaces, and application groups, while collaborating with cloud, networking, and security teams.

The ideal candidate has 4+ years of VDI experience, hands-on AVD expertise, PowerShell scripting, FSLogix, and a working knowledge of Entra ID and RBAC. U.S.