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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.
- 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.
Vacancy expired!