Senior Citrix Engineer

Veriipro; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Veriipro is seeking an experienced Senior Citrix Engineer to design, deploy, migrate, and optimize large-scale Citrix environments. The role covers CVAD, DaaS, PVS, MCS, and VMware integration across on‑premises and hybrid deployments.

The ideal candidate will lead end-to-end Citrix engineering initiatives, manage image lifecycles, and ensure high availability with DR planning. Strong AD/identity integration and PowerShell automation are highly valued.

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on experience with enterprise Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops (CVAD) design, implementation, upgrades, and high availability.
• Strong expertise in Citrix PVS for RDSH and MCS for persistent VDI provisioning.
• Proven experience migrating users and workloads between CVAD Sites, including pilot testing, migration waves, and rollback.
• Windows Server image engineering, lifecycle management, and reverse imaging for VMware Tools upgrades, OS upgrades, and image maintenance.
• Knowledge of Citrix StoreFront, Workspace app, authentication, beacons, UPM, and FSLogix.
• Expertise in Group Policy, Active Directory, DNS, Kerberos, multi-domain/forest environments, and access delegation.
• Hands-on VMware vSphere/vCenter operations including templates, cloning, provisioning, and performance troubleshooting.
• Familiarity with Citrix DaaS, hybrid deployments, Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD) SSO, and identity integration.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across Citrix, Windows Server, networking, virtualization, and authentication.
• PowerShell scripting, automation, technical documentation, and end-to-end project delivery experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, configure, upgrade, and maintain enterprise-scale Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops (CVAD) on-premises environments.
• Lead end-to-end Citrix infrastructure implementations, including architecture, HA, DR considerations, performance optimization, and troubleshooting.
• Support Citrix DaaS (Citrix Cloud) fundamentals, hybrid deployments, and enterprise identity integration.
• Plan and execute migrations between Citrix CVAD Sites, including pilot testing, phased migration, validation, rollback planning, and post-migration support.
• Design, configure, and troubleshoot Citrix Provisioning Services (PVS) for RDSH and MCS for persistent VDI provisioning.
• Manage master image lifecycles including creation, maintenance, versioning, testing, promotion, rollback, and deployment.
• Perform reverse imaging and image maintenance for VMware Tools upgrades, OS upgrades, and image modification.
• Configure and troubleshoot Citrix StoreFront, including stores, authentication methods, internal/external beacons, and Workspace app integration.
• Manage user profiles using Citrix Profile Management (UPM) and FSLogix, including permissions, profile corruption, and logon performance.
• Develop, troubleshoot, and optimize Group Policy Objects (GPOs) and security hardening.
• Administer and troubleshoot Active Directory and identity environments, with multi-domain/forest configurations.

Skills

CVAD design

Citrix DaaS

PVS

MCS

Windows Server

Active Directory

Group Policy

VMware vSphere

Entra ID SSO / Azure AD

PowerShell

Job description

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced Senior Citrix Engineer with extensive hands-on expertise in designing, building, deploying, upgrading, and troubleshooting large-scale enterprise Citrix environments. The ideal candidate will lead end-to-end Citrix engineering initiatives, from solution architecture and infrastructure design through implementation, migration, optimization, and operational support.

The role requires strong technical expertise across Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops (CVAD), Citrix DaaS, Provisioning Services (PVS), Machine Creation Services (MCS), Windows Server, Active Directory, Group Policy, VMware vSphere, and enterprise identity integration.

The candidate must have proven experience migrating users and workloads between Citrix CVAD Sites, managing master images, and performing advanced image maintenance and reverse imaging for VMware Tools upgrades, operating system upgrades, and other infrastructure changes.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, configure, upgrade, and maintain enterprise-scale Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops (CVAD) on-premises environments.
• Lead end-to-end Citrix infrastructure implementations, including architecture, high availability (HA), disaster recovery considerations, performance optimization, and troubleshooting.
• Support Citrix DaaS (Citrix Cloud) fundamentals, hybrid deployments, and enterprise identity integration.
• Plan and execute migrations between Citrix CVAD Sites, including pilot testing, phased user and workload migration, validation, rollback planning, and post-migration support.
• Design, configure, and troubleshoot Citrix Provisioning Services (PVS) for Remote Desktop Session Host (RDSH) environments and Machine Creation Services (MCS) for persistent Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) environments.
• Manage master image lifecycles, including image creation, maintenance, versioning, testing, promotion, rollback, and deployment across environments.
• Perform reverse imaging and image maintenance activities for VMware Tools upgrades, Windows operating system upgrades, and other infrastructure changes requiring image conversion or modification.
• Configure and troubleshoot Citrix StoreFront, including stores, authentication methods, internal and external beacons, and Citrix Workspace app integration.
• Manage user profiles and containers using Citrix Profile Management (UPM) and FSLogix, including profile configuration, file share permissions, profile corruption, and logon performance issues.
• Develop, troubleshoot, and optimize Group Policy Objects (GPOs), including loopback processing, security filtering, performance tuning, and security hardening.
• Administer and troubleshoot Active Directory and enterprise identity environments, including OU design, delegated administration, least-privilege access, and multi-domain or multi-forest configurations.
• Troubleshoot DNS, Kerberos authentication, domain trust relationships, and identity-related issues affecting Citrix sessions and user access.
• Support VMware vSphere and vCenter operations, including templates, cloning, virtual machine provisioning, VMware Tools management, and virtual infrastructure performance troubleshooting.

Qualifications / Skills Required

• Extensive hands-on experience with enterprise Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops (CVAD) design, implementation, upgrades, and high availability.
• Strong expertise in Citrix PVS for RDSH and MCS for persistent VDI provisioning.
• Proven experience migrating users and workloads between CVAD Sites, including pilot testing, migration waves, and rollback.
• Hands-on experience with Windows Server 2016/2019/2022 image engineering, lifecycle management, and reverse imaging for VMware Tools upgrades, OS upgrades, and image maintenance.
• Strong knowledge of Citrix StoreFront, Workspace app, authentication, beacons, Citrix UPM, and FSLogix.
• Expertise in Group Policy (GPO), Active Directory, DNS, Kerberos, multi-domain/forest environments, and access delegation.
• Hands-on VMware vSphere/vCenter experience, including templates, cloning, provisioning, and performance troubleshooting.
• Familiarity with Citrix DaaS, hybrid deployments, Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD) SSO, and identity integration.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across Citrix, Windows Server, networking, virtualization, and authentication.
• PowerShell scripting, automation, technical documentation, and end-to-end project delivery experience preferred.