Senior Azure Virtual Desktop Lead Engineer

AIS (Applied Information Sciences); United States; Remote; USD 121,000 - 182,000; Full time

Job summary

AIS is seeking a Senior Azure Virtual Desktop Engineer to design, build, and optimize secure Azure Virtual Desktop environments that support Codex-enabled development and broader virtual desktop modernization for a federal customer.

As the initial project lead, you will engineer AVD host pools, session hosts, images, scaling plans, and user profiles; implement secure patterns and required controls; and coordinate Citrix transition activities with performance validation and capacity planning.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of endpoint, virtual desktop, or Windows infrastructure engineering experience.
• Hands-on AVD design and implementation experience with pooled and personal desktop patterns.
• Strong knowledge of FSLogix, Windows 11, Entra ID, Intune, Azure networking, and profile-storage design.
• Experience with image engineering, application packaging, performance tuning, and monitoring.
• Ability to work independently in a secure, highly controlled enterprise environment.

Responsibilities

• Engineer AVD host pools, session hosts, images, scaling plans, application delivery, and user profiles.
• Create secure desktop patterns for Codex access with necessary network segmentation and controls.
• Implement and support FSLogix, Entra ID, Intune, profile storage, image lifecycle, and monitoring integrations.
• Plan and execute Citrix transition activities, performance validation, capacity planning, and user acceptance testing.
• Troubleshoot performance, sign-in, profile, application, network, and graphics issues across the AVD stack.
• Produce deployment standards, runbooks, and knowledge transfer for steady-state support.

Skills

Endpoint engineering

VDI design

FSLogix

Azure networking

Image engineering

Monitoring

Tools

Citrix migration

IGEL

Thin-client

Azure NetApp Files

GPU-enabled desktop

Job description

AIS is seeking a Senior Azure Virtual Desktop Engineer to design, build, and optimize secure Azure Virtual Desktop environments that support Codex-enabled development and broader virtual desktop modernization for a federal customer.

As the initial project lead, you will engineer AVD host pools, session hosts, images, scaling plans, and user profiles; implement secure patterns and required controls; and coordinate Citrix transition activities with performance validation and capacity planning.