Senior Horizon Platform Engineer — Remote (VDI & Cloud)

Ceridian HCM, Inc

United States

Remote

USD 120,000 - 170,000

Full time

2 days ago

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Job summary

Ceridian HCM, Inc. is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to design, implement, and operate Omnissa Horizon 8 environments across cloud and on‑premises, ensuring high availability and optimal user experience.

You will lead lifecycle management of Horizon components, integrate with VMware vSphere, AD, DNS, certs, and networking, and drive automation using PowerShell, Terraform, and Ansible in a 24x7 environment.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
Seven or more years of progressive systems engineering or infrastructure operations experience in enterprise production environments.
Demonstrated hands-on experience designing, implementing, and operating Omnissa Horizon 8 or VMware Horizon environments.
Strong experience with Horizon Connection Server, Unified Access Gateway, Horizon Agent, desktop pools, published applications, and entitlements.
Strong experience with VMware vSphere, AWS, Azure, Windows Server, Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS, and certificate management.
Strong understanding of TCP/IP, DNS, VPN, load balancing, firewall policy, secure remote access, and troubleshooting across virtual desktop protocols.
Experience with enterprise storage, backup, recovery, and disaster recovery services for cloud and hybrid infrastructure.
Experience with monitoring, alerting, logging, performance analysis, capacity planning, and availability management in a 24x7 environment.
Experience with automation and infrastructure-as-code using PowerShell, REST APIs, Terraform, Ansible, or comparable tools.
Demonstrated ability to lead complex incident response, root cause analysis, change implementation, and technical problem resolution.
Strong communication, documentation, stakeholder management, and technical leadership skills.

Responsibilities

Design, implement, administer, and support Omnissa Horizon 8 virtual desktop and published application environments.
Own the lifecycle and configuration of Horizon Connection Servers, Unified Access Gateways, Horizon Agents, desktop pools, application pools, entitlements, and policies.
Integrate Horizon with VMware vSphere, Active Directory, DNS, certificates, load balancing, storage, network services, and cloud infrastructure.
Design and validate high-availability, backup, disaster recovery, and capacity strategies for Horizon and supporting infrastructure.
Monitor platform health, session performance, logon times, capacity, and user experience; resolve root causes and improve service reliability.
Apply secure access, least-privilege, network segmentation, certificate, logging, vulnerability remediation, and hardening controls.
Automate configuration, deployment, image lifecycle, and operational tasks through PowerShell, REST APIs, Terraform, Ansible, or equivalent tools.
Lead technical troubleshooting for complex infrastructure incidents, provide escalation support, and complete root cause analysis and corrective actions.
Operate Azure, AWS, Windows Server, VMware, and supporting infrastructure services; define standards, mentor engineers, maintain documentation, and coordinate change and maintenance activities.