Senior VDI Engineer

Grvty; Arnold (MO); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Grvty is seeking a VDI Engineer to design, deploy, and maintain a large-scale virtual desktop environment supporting a sensitive intelligence customer. The role emphasizes reliability, security, and seamless end-user experience across distributed sites.

The successful candidate will serve as SME for VDI performance, assist in system integration, and advocate for operational excellence with strong communication and teamwork skills.

Qualifications

• U.S. Citizenship with TS/SCI clearance and ability to obtain CI Polygraph.
• Experience engineering support for Citrix legacy and current versions.
• 5+ years in similar roles with BS degree or equivalent combination.
• Progressive roles from Administrator to Senior Engineer.

Responsibilities

• Architect and design VDI solutions for large enterprise environments.
• Provide Tier 3/4 support to system administrators for VDI issues.
• Guide desktop optimization for platform interoperability and act as liaison between VDI technologies.
• Maintain advanced knowledge of VDI administration, engineering, and implementation.
• Operate across multiple production environments with diverse stakeholders.

Skills

Citrix experience

VDI engineering

Troubleshooting

Team collaboration

System design

Education

BS degree or equivalent

Tools

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops

PVS

MCS

CVAD

Liquidware Profile Unity

Hyper-V

VMware VDI

Leostream

HP AnyConnect

Job description

Deliver Simple Solutions to Complex Problems as a VDI Engineer. Here, you'll tailor cutting-edge solutions to the unique requirements of our clients. With a career in application development, you'll make the end user's experience your priority and we'll make your career growth ours. As a VDI Engineer you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Our work depends on a TS/SCI cleared VDI Engineer joining our team to support our intelligence customer in Springfield, VA or Arnold, MO.

Virtual Desktop Engineer to support the design, configuration, and maintenance of a large, globally accessed virtual desktop environment. This role will be the SME in troubleshooting all related performance issue across the organization. Additionally, the position will require an individual experienced in system design and integration, identity life-cycle management, and process automation and improvement.

We are looking for an individual who has a proven track record designing and maintaining VDI in a large enterprise. The ideal candidate will be a motivated self-starter with excellent written and verbal communication skills, who exceeds as an individual, as well as excels among peers in a team environment. The individual should possess a passion for operational excellence and a high level of interpersonal and soft skills.

What You'll be Owning

• In addition to architecting and designing, the VDI Engineer will provide TIER 3/4 support to system administrators in order to resolve VDI issues.
• Provide guidance on optimization of desktops for platform interoperability and act as liaison between Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) technologies.
• Offers endpoint support on issues and trouble resolution tasks on Virtual Desktop related tasks.
• Maintains an Advanced knowledge relative to administration, engineering, and implementation of virtual desktop infrastructure-related technologies.
• Operate across multiple and complex production environments with multiple stakeholders.
• Applies extensive technical expertise and has full knowledge of other related disciplines.
• Conducts trade studies and makes recommendations on solutions and "make buy" decisions.

What You Must Have

• US Citizenship required with a TS/SCI Clearance and ability to obtain CI Polygraph
• Experience providing engineering support for legacy and current versions of Citrix products.
• 5+ years of experience with BS degree or a combination of years of experience and education.
• Progressive roles from Administrator to Sr. Engineer.
• Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops v7.15 and later.
• Citrix Provisioning Services (PVS) and Machine Creation Services (MCS).
• Citrix Cloud Virtual Apps and Desktops (CVAD).
• Liquidware Profile Unity.
• Hyper V, VMware VDI (Microsoft or Citix NetScalers / ADCs).
• Familiar with HP AnyConnect and Leostream.

What Would be Nice to Have

• Experience managing and administering Windows Server clustering.
• Experience with Infrastructure as code technologies such as Terraform, Ansible, etc.
• System Center Virtual Machine Manager/Vmware Vcenter 6.7.
• Home Directory and Profile management Support Services.
• Desktop Software provisioning and Support Services.