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ID #12257771
State New Jersey
City Jerseycity
Job type Contract
Salary USD TBD TBD
Source Software Guidance & Assistance
Showed 2021-04-15
Date 2021-04-14
Deadline 2021-06-13
Category Software/QA/DBA/etc
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Azure WVD Engineer

New Jersey, Jerseycity, 07097 Jerseycity USA

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Software Guidance & Assistance, Inc., (SGA), is searching for an Azure WVD Engineer for a CONTRACT assignment with one of our premier Financial Services clients in Jersey City, NJ. Responsibilities :

  • The principle objective of this position is to architect and provide expert level support and strategy for the production WVD and Citrix, virtualization environment.
  • Primary responsibility of the position is to support & manage the production Azure WVD and CITRIX Xendesktop environment, maintain proactive performance monitoring of the environment utilizing specific monitoring tools and play an active role in the day-to-day support activities, administration and projects associated with Citrix VDI infrastructure/applications.
  • Responsible for the maintenance, and support of the Azure WVD environment.
  • Implement and proactively monitor WVD environment for capacity, risk, and workload and take necessary remediation steps.
  • Develop and implement a process for WVD image updates and deployments.
  • Responsible for the backup/restore of Azure WVDs.
  • Responsible for the architecture, implementation and support of a Citrix Xendesktop environment including Netscaler components, thin clients & smartcards.
  • Provide daily support for WVD / Citrix Xendesktop environment with users in various geographical locations.
  • Implement robust monitoring of the WVD VDI environment.
  • Take full ownership to work with various teams to resolve any production related incidents.
  • Be actively involved in the planning & implementation of new projects.
  • Interface with Vendors and Internal Global Teams to ensure the environment conforms to the current standards.
  • Manage Business Continuance in relation to Disaster Recovery.
  • Maintain System high reliability, availability and resiliency levels.
  • Provide 1st, 2nd and 3rd Level Support for the production Environments
  • Proactive System Performance Monitoring and capacity management
  • Perform system upgrades and mandatory security/OS patching.
  • Provide 247 On call support based on rotation within the team
  • Perform thorough morning checks on all critical applications using existing tools or scripts.
  • Strictly abide and follow the company policy and procedures pertaining to change and incident management.
  • Responsible for ensuring that all systems are deployed consistent with group standards and best practices.
  • Incident and Problem management: take ownership and work with team to resolve production related issues.
  • Follow groups standard security practices within the environment.
  • Maintain an accurate and current hardware and infrastructure software inventory.
Required Skills:
  • Expert knowledge of Azure WVD
  • Expert knowledge of image deployment and updates for Azure WVD
  • Expert knowledge in the backup/restore of WVDs
  • Expert knowledge of Azure Cloud Powershell
  • Good knowledge of FsLogix
  • Good knowledge of MSIX packaging for Azure WVD
  • 5 to 7 years managing Citrix Xendesktop / XenApp architecture and components
  • Expert knowledge of Citrix Xendesktop 7.X architecture and components
  • Expert knowledge of Citrix Netscaler 10.X and above technology
  • Software Engineering and Support for multiple products such as:
  • Microsoft operating system (Win 7, 64bit & Win 10), Office Suite, Microsoft Development tools (Visual Studio, etc.), Adobe products, Web Based apps, etc.
  • Expert knowledge of Windows OS components and technologies such as Windows Registries, PowerShell etc.
  • Good knowledge of smart cards or other two factor technologies and its integration with CITRIX clients.
  • Good knowledge of Active Directory (group membership)
  • Good working knowledge of implementation of SSL Certificates
  • Good understanding of Firewall rule implementation & troubleshooting.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Project Management and Documentation skills
  • Service oriented, positive, committed and enthusiastic team player.
SGA is a Certified Women's Business Enterprise (WBE) celebrating over thirty years of service to our national client base for both permanent placement and consulting opportunities. For consulting positions, we offer a variety of benefit options including but not limited to health & dental insurance, paid vacation, timely payment via direct deposit. SGA accepts transfers of H1 sponsorship for most contracting roles. We are unable to sponsor for Right-to-Hire, Fulltime, or Government roles. All parties authorized to work in the US are encouraged to apply for all roles. Only those authorized to work for government entities will be considered for government roles. Please inquire about our referral program if you would like to submit a candidate for any of our open or future job opportunities. SGA is an EEO employer. We encourage Veterans to apply. To view all of our available job postings and/or to learn more about SGA please visit us online at www.sgainc.com .

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