Senior Citrix Engineer: Lead Enterprise CVAD & MCS/PVS

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

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.