Senior VDI Engineer

OSC Edge; Augusta (GA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

OSC Edge in Augusta, GA seeks a Sr. VDI Engineer to own and operate Omnissa Horizon in a multisite environment supporting ~3,000 users. The role is on-site at Fort Gordon and requires active security clearances.

You will manage Horizon components, upgrades, performance monitoring, security baselines, and disaster recovery, collaborating with identity, network, and security teams.

Qualifications

• Active DoD clearance and eligibility forTS clearance.
• Seven+ years systems engineering; Horizon multisite experience.
• Hands-on Horizon architecture and operations knowledge.
• Experience with AD, PKI, certificates, and smart-card access.

Responsibilities

• Operate and maintain Horizon pods, connections, and pools across sites.
• Manage images, Horizon agents, App Volumes, and DEM/FSLogix settings.
• Plan upgrades, patches, and rollback procedures with testing.
• Monitor capacity, performance, login times, and GPU resources.
• Troubleshoot across Horizon, Windows, storage, network layers.
• Lead design reviews, capacity planning, and security improvements.
• Maintain recovery procedures and runbooks; participate in failover tests.
• Apply DoD baselines; support vulnerability remediation and access controls.

Skills

Secret Clearance

TS Clearance

DoD 8140

Horizon admin

VDI engineering

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Tools

Omnissa Horizon

Connection Servers

Unified Access Gateway

App Volumes

Dynamic Environment Manager

FSLogix

PowerShell

PowerCLI

VMware vSphere

VMware NSX

Active Directory

Job description

Sr. VDI Engineer (Omnissa Horizon) - 7+ years of experience, Security +, and Clearance

Location - Augusta, GA (On-site 5 days a week)

The VDI Engineer (Omnissa Horizon) is responsible for the reliability, security, and continued development of a multisite virtual desktop environment supporting approximately 3,000 users. This role operates Omnissa Horizon and its desktop and application delivery components, leads VDI design changes, and works with the virtualization, network, identity, storage, and security teams on supporting infrastructure.

*This role requires a physical presence at Fort Gordon, GA

Major Activities (Typical Duties/Responsibilities)

• Operate and maintain Horizon pods, Connection Servers, Unified Access Gateways, desktop pools, and RDSH application farms across multiple sites.
• Manage desktop images, Horizon agents, application delivery through App Volumes, and user environment settings through Dynamic Environment Manager and FSLogix where deployed.
• Plan and execute VDI upgrades, patching, and image changes with testing, documented rollback plans, and coordination with the customer.
• Monitor capacity and user experience, including CPU, memory, storage performance, GPU resources, login times, and Blast Extreme performance.
• Troubleshoot issues across the user session, Horizon components, Windows desktop, hypervisor, storage, and network layers. Engage the owning teams when a resolution requires changes to their platforms.
• Maintain VDI integrations with Active Directory, authentication services, certificates, and smart-card access in coordination with the identity and PKI teams.
• Lead VDI design reviews, capacity planning, and improvements to availability, security, and operational support.
• Maintain VDI recovery procedures, runbooks, and architecture documentation, and participate in scheduled failover tests.
• Apply applicable DoD security baselines, support vulnerability remediation, and maintain appropriate access controls for VDI components.

Physical Abilities

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to type, talk or hear, stand and walk. The day-to-day demand is primarily a sedentary role (up to 8 hours). There are prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and typing on a computer. The employee frequently is required to use hands and fingers, type, handle or feel. This position would require the ability to bend, sit, stand and lift as necessary.
• Regularly lift and/or move objects up to 25 pounds, frequently lift and/or move objects up to 50 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move objects that weigh more than 75 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Required Qualifications- Education/ Experience

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Must have an active Secret Clearance and eligibility for a TS Clearance.
• Ability to meet the DoD 8140 qualification requirements assigned to this position, including any certification required by the contract, Security + or Higher.
• At least seven years of systems engineering experience, including at least three years administering or engineering enterprise Omnissa Horizon environments.
• Hands-on experience with Horizon architecture and operations, including Connection Servers, Unified Access Gateway, desktop pools, image management, App Volumes, and Dynamic Environment Manager.
• Experience supporting a multisite VDI environment and troubleshooting performance and availability issues across infrastructure dependencies.
• Working knowledge of Active Directory, Group Policy, authentication, certificates, and Windows desktop administration.
• Experience applying applicable DISA STIGs and supporting vulnerability remediation in a DoD environment.

Preferred Qualifications- Education/ Experience

• Experience with Horizon Cloud Pod Architecture, True SSO, RDSH published applications, FSLogix, or GPU-enabled desktops.
• PowerShell or PowerCLI scripting experience for image management, provisioning, reporting, or compliance checks.
• Relevant Omnissa Horizon, VMware vSphere, or Microsoft certification.
• Working knowledge of VMware NSX as it relates to VDI connectivity and segmentation.