Remote Citrix Platform Engineer - AWS & GitLab CI/CD

The Briefed; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible remote work

Enterprise exposure

Training & growth

Job summary

The Briefed, a leading global IT consulting firm, seeks a Citrix Platform Engineer on AWS to own end-to-end delivery of Citrix Cloud / DaaS and VDI environments on AWS. You will automate gold image lifecycles, IaC with Terraform, Packer, Ansible, and build GitLab CI/CD pipelines for reliable, scalable production deployments.

In this hands-on role, you will implement robust testing, rollback plans, and observability across hybrid Citrix and AWS environments, working in a remote-friendly setup

Qualifications

• 8+ years of progressive IT experience focused on platform engineering, infrastructure automation, or virtual desktop engineering.
• Deep expertise in Citrix Cloud / DaaS, Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops, VDI delivery models, and MCS.
• Experience managing Citrix Gold Image lifecycles and image update automation.
• Proficiency in PowerShell scripting and Citrix PowerShell SDK automation.
• Hands-on with Terraform (HCL) for IaC and Packer for image creation.
• Experience building GitLab CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and image deployments.
• Proficiency with Ansible for configuration management and REST API integrations.

Responsibilities

• Architect, deploy, and maintain Citrix platform solutions on AWS with focus on security, reliability, and high availability.
• Own end-to-end delivery lifecycle from requirements to production deployment and validation.
• Automate Gold Image pipelines and VDI image management using MCS, Packer, and PowerShell.
• Implement IaC using Terraform (HCL) to provision cloud infrastructure.
• Build and maintain GitLab CI/CD pipelines for image builds and deployments.
• Develop reusable PowerShell scripts for admin tasks, health checks, and automation.
• Plan testing strategies and production deployments with rollback and DR plans.
• Troubleshoot performance, networking, identity, and delivery issues across Citrix/AWS environments.
• Create architecture diagrams, runbooks, and automation documentation.

Skills

Citrix Cloud/DaaS

VDI automation

PowerShell scripting

Terraform (HCL)

HashiCorp Packer

Ansible

GitLab CI/CD

REST API integrations

Tools

HashiCorp Terraform

HashiCorp Packer

GitLab

PowerShell

Job description

The Briefed, a leading global IT consulting firm, seeks a Citrix Platform Engineer on AWS to own end-to-end delivery of Citrix Cloud / DaaS and VDI environments on AWS. You will automate gold image lifecycles, IaC with Terraform, Packer, Ansible, and build GitLab CI/CD pipelines for reliable, scalable production deployments.

In this hands-on role, you will implement robust testing, rollback plans, and observability across hybrid Citrix and AWS environments, working in a remote-friendly setup