Remote Senior Azure Virtual Desktop Architect

Cognizant; City of Albany (NY); 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 is seeking a Senior Azure Virtual Desktop Engineer to design, deploy, and optimize Azure Virtual Desktop environments across pooled and personal desktop models. Join a Cloud Infrastructure team focused on scalable, secure, and automated solutions that reduce costs while improving user experience.

You will lead end-to-end lifecycle management, collaborate with identity, networking, and security teams, and produce documentation and runbooks for ongoing

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, Session Hosts, and user assignment models.
• Solid understanding of Azure infrastructure services (Resource Groups, VNets, Subnets, NSGs, security principles).
• Experience optimizing AVD environments for performance, scalability, and cost efficiency.
• Hands-on with PowerShell, Azure CLI, Azure Automation, and IaC tools (Terraform, Bicep, ARM templates).
• Experience managing the full virtual desktop lifecycle (provisioning, image management, autoscaling, patching, decommissioning).

Mansioni

• Design, build, and deploy Azure Virtual Desktop environments from sizing to production implementation.
• Define AVD resource specs including VM SKUs, session host sizing, image selection, capacity planning, naming conventions, tagging standards.
• Configure and maintain Azure infrastructure components (Resource Groups, VNets, Subnets, Host Pools, Workspaces, Application Groups, Session Hosts).
• Design and manage pooled (multi-user) and personal (dedicated) desktop environments.
• Administer user assignments, application group access, and host pool allocations.
• Monitor and optimize AVD costs through rightsizing, scaling strategies, deallocation schedules, monthly reviews.
• Develop automation solutions for provisioning, image management, autoscaling, patching, decommissioning using PowerShell, Azure CLI, IaC.
• Collaborate with identity, networking, security, and endpoint management for seamless integration.
• Maintain technical documentation, architecture diagrams, operational procedures, and runbooks.

Conoscenze

Azure Virtual Desktop

PowerShell

Azure CLI

Infrastructure as Code

Automation

Cost optimization

Security

Collaboration

Strumenti

Terraform

Bicep

ARM templates

Azure Automation

Intune

Descrizione del lavoro

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation is seeking a Senior Azure Virtual Desktop Engineer to design, deploy, and optimize Azure Virtual Desktop environments across pooled and personal desktop models. Join a Cloud Infrastructure team focused on scalable, secure, and automated solutions that reduce costs while improving user experience.

You will lead end-to-end lifecycle management, collaborate with identity, networking, and security teams, and produce documentation and runbooks for ongoing