Senior Horizon Platform Engineer - Remote

Dayforce; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision and life保险

Job summary

Dayforce seeks a Senior Systems Engineer to design, deliver and operate enterprise Horizon 8 environments across cloud and hybrid infrastructure. You will lead architecture, automation and incident response while collaborating with security, networking, and end-user computing teams.

You will own Horizon lifecycle, integrate with vSphere and AD, and ensure availability, performance and compliant security. Remote-friendly role spanning US/Canada with strong growth opportunities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/IT or equivalent experience.
• Seven+ years of progressive systems engineering or infrastructure operations experience.
• Hands-on experience with Omnissa Horizon 8 or VMware Horizon environments.
• Strong Horizon components experience: Connection Server, Unified Access Gateway, Horizon Agent, pools, entitlements.

Responsibilities

• Design, deliver, and operate Horizon 8 desktop and published app environments.
• Own lifecycle of Horizon components and policies.
• Integrate Horizon with vSphere, AD, DNS, certificates, load balancing, storage, and cloud infra.
• Plan high availability, backup, DR, and capacity strategies.
• Monitor performance, troubleshoot, and improve user experience.
• Apply security controls and least-privilege access, audit logging.
• Automate deployment and lifecycle tasks using IaC tools.
• Lead complex incident response and root-cause analysis.
• Operate Azure, AWS, Windows Server, VMware; mentor engineers and maintain docs.

Skills

Horizon Platform Eng

Horizon Architecture

Infra Integration

Availability & Recovery

Performance & UX

Security & Compliance

Automation & IaC

Incident Leadership

Cloud Infra Ops

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT or related field

Tools

VMware Horizon

Horizon 8

VMware vSphere

AWS

Azure

Windows Server

Active Directory

DNS

Certificate management

Terraform

Ansible

PowerShell

REST APIs

Job description

Dayforce seeks a Senior Systems Engineer to design, deliver and operate enterprise Horizon 8 environments across cloud and hybrid infrastructure. You will lead architecture, automation and incident response while collaborating with security, networking, and end-user computing teams.

You will own Horizon lifecycle, integrate with vSphere and AD, and ensure availability, performance and compliant security. Remote-friendly role spanning US/Canada with strong growth opportunities.