Senior Citrix Engineer - TS/SCI Clearance | Cloud & On-Prem

cyber; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

26 Days Paid Leave

Parental Leave

401(k) Matching

Health insurance

Parking and transportation allowance

Training and development

Job summary

GCyber is seeking a Senior Citrix Engineer to design, deploy, and optimize robust Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops solutions in both on‑premise and cloud environments (Azure/AWS) for a government customer.

You will lead SME-level Citrix engineering across Cloud, NetScaler ADC, StoreFront, and WEM, while driving automation with PowerShell and advancing security hardening in line with DISA requirements.

Qualifications

• Active DoD TS/SCI security clearance is required.
• Bachelor’s Degree in a technical discipline with 10+ years of Citrix engineering and administration experience.
• IAT II Certification (e.g. Security+, CySA+, GICSP, GSEC, SSCP).
• Demonstrated scripting and automation expertise with PowerShell.
• Deep technical knowledge of Windows Server OS, Active Directory, and Group Policy in virtualized environments.
• Proven experience with performance tuning and optimization tools for virtualized environments.
• Prior experience engineering solutions for DISA and mission partners is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Serve as SME on the Citrix stack, including Citrix Cloud, ADC, StoreFront, and WEM.
• Engineer and automate infrastructure management and deployment processes using PowerShell.
• Lead integration of security controls and compliance (DoD/DISA) into Citrix architecture; perform vulnerability assessments and hardening on Citrix ADC.
• Develop and maintain detailed engineering docs, runbooks, and DR plans.
• Monitor, analyze, and optimize Citrix infrastructure for performance, capacity, and latency; perform root cause analysis.
• Lead critical infrastructure projects including platform upgrades, data center migrations, and cloud service integration.
• Design and implement user profile and data management strategies using ProfileUnity and User Layering.
• Familiarity with Citrix and Liquidware integration.

Skills

PowerShell scripting

Windows Server

Active Directory

Group Policy

Performance tuning

Citrix engineering

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in a technical discipline

Tools

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops

Citrix Cloud

NetScaler ADC

ProfileUnity

Profile Management

User Layering

Workspace Environment Management (WEM)

Liquidware

Job description

GCyber is seeking a Senior Citrix Engineer to design, deploy, and optimize robust Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops solutions in both on‑premise and cloud environments (Azure/AWS) for a government customer.

You will lead SME-level Citrix engineering across Cloud, NetScaler ADC, StoreFront, and WEM, while driving automation with PowerShell and advancing security hardening in line with DISA requirements.