Remote Senior Azure Virtual Desktop Engineer

Cognizant; Topeka (KS); Remote; USD 79,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision, Life

Paid holidays + PTO

401(k) plan

Disability insurance

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 supporting pooled multi-user and personal desktops. You will lead the end-to-end lifecycle, replacing legacy jump-servers while ensuring security, scalability, and cost efficiency across the Azure estate.

This remote role is open to qualified applicants in the United States.

Qualifications

• 5+ years hands-on experience designing, deploying, and supporting Azure Virtual Desktop environments.
• Strong expertise in Azure Virtual Desktop architecture (Host Pools, Workspaces, Application Groups, Session Hosts, user assignment models).
• Understanding of Azure infrastructure services (Resource Groups, VNets, Subnets, NSGs).
• Experience optimizing AVD for performance, scale, and cost efficiency.
• Hands-on with PowerShell, Azure CLI, Azure Automation, and IaC tools (Terraform, Bicep, ARM).
• Experience managing full virtual desktop lifecycle (provisioning, image management, autoscaling, patching, decommissioning).

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Configure and maintain Azure components like Resource Groups, VNets, Subnets, Host Pools, Workspaces, Application Groups, and Session Hosts.
• Design and manage pooled and personal desktop environments per business/technical needs.
• Administer user assignments, application group access, and host pool allocations for optimal end-user experience.
• Monitor and optimize AVD consumption costs through 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 seamless integration.
• Maintain technical documentation, diagrams, and runbooks.

Skills

Azure Virtual Desktop design

Azure architecture

PowerShell

Azure CLI

IaC (Terraform/Bicep/ARM)

Lifecycle management of VDI

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

ARM templates

PowerShell

Azure CLI

Job description

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation is seeking a Senior Azure Virtual Desktop Engineer to design, deploy, automate, and optimize AVD environments supporting pooled multi-user and personal desktops. You will lead the end-to-end lifecycle, replacing legacy jump-servers while ensuring security, scalability, and cost efficiency across the Azure estate.

This remote role is open to qualified applicants in the United States.