Remote Senior Azure Virtual Desktop Engineer

Cognizant; Phoenix (AZ); Remote; USD 79,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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

Job summary

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation is seeking a Senior Azure Virtual Desktop Engineer to design, deploy, automate, and optimize AVD environments for pooled and personal desktops. You will manage the end-to-end lifecycle, drive cost efficiency, and partner across identity, networking, and security teams.

You will size resources, configure host pools and workspaces, and implement IaC with Terraform/Bicep/ARM.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of 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 assignment models.
• Solid understanding of Azure infrastructure services: Resource Groups, VNets, Subnets, NSGs, and network security.
• Experience optimizing AVD 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.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and deploy Azure Virtual Desktop environments from sizing to production.
• Define AVD resource specs, including VM SKUs, session host sizing, image selection, capacity, naming, and tagging.
• Configure and maintain Azure components: Resource Groups, VNets, Subnets, Host Pools, Workspaces, Groups, and Session Hosts.
• Design and manage pooled and personal desktop environments aligned with requirements.
• Administer user assignments, app group access, and host pool allocations for end-user experience.
• Monitor and optimize AVD consumption costs via rightsizing, scaling, deallocation, and cost reviews.
• Develop automation for provisioning, image management, autoscaling, patching, and decommissioning using PowerShell, Azure CLI, and IaC.
• Collaborate with identity, networking, security, and endpoint teams for smooth integrations.
• Maintain technical documentation, diagrams, procedures, and runbooks.

Skills

Azure Virtual Desktop

PowerShell

Azure CLI

Terraform

Bicep

ARM templates

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

ARM templates

Intune

Job description

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation is seeking a Senior Azure Virtual Desktop Engineer to design, deploy, automate, and optimize AVD environments for pooled and personal desktops. You will manage the end-to-end lifecycle, drive cost efficiency, and partner across identity, networking, and security teams.

You will size resources, configure host pools and workspaces, and implement IaC with Terraform/Bicep/ARM.