Azure Virtual Desktop Engineer

Government
January 12, 2024

Job Description


Job title: Azure Virtual Desktop Engineer

Company: Adecco

Job description: Azure Virtual Desktop Engineer required to work with a Government department. This is an initial 6 month contract, paying £600 a day, inside IR35, hybrid working.

Job Description:

You will be responsible for development activities across our two products: AVD and Citrix.

We really want to hear from people who value making a difference and building user-focused services, enjoy working in a multi-disciplinary, highly collaborative team, that use modern tools and working practices.

Key Responsibilities:

As an AVD Engineer in EUCs, you will:

  • Design, build, and maintain the AVD infrastructure to ensure high availability and scalability to serve Government needs.
  • Collaborate closely with engineering teams to optimise performance, reliability, and security.
  • Implement and manage Azure tooling such as Azure Monitor, Azure Key Vault, Azure Active Directory.
  • Collaborate with Product Managers and Technical Architects to set product direction
  • Share knowledge of tools and techniques with the wider team and community, both developers and non-developers, and maintain DevOps culture.

Person Specification:

Essential:

  • Experience with VDI technologies such as AVD and Citrix, including image management, deployment, monitoring and maintenance.
  • Experience of modern development and deployment techniques.
  • Experience working in a mixed skillset team.
  • Experience using containers, distributed schedulers, and minimal operating systems.
  • Have a systematic approach to problem solving.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Willingness to be assessed against the requirements for SC Clearance.
  • Extensive Knowledge of Citrix on Premise and Citrix Cloud.
  • Good understanding of the Microsoft Azure platform.
  • Experience of Azure Virtual Desktop deployment and management.
  • Work collaboratively and independently to provide solutions to complicated problems.
  • Open to learn new technologies, new ways of working and new processes whilst maintaining high standards of technical expertise.

Desirable:

  • Have experience working in an Agile, fast-paced working environment.
  • A Microsoft Azure certification.
  • Experience with Nerdio, either Nerdio for MSP or Nerdio for Enterprise.
  • Experience with Microsoft Intune for Policy management as well as MMD and Defender for Cloud.
  • Exposure to Windows 365 technology and roadmap.
  • Experience in PowerShell and Json scripting.
  • Experience in documentation and process mapping, (HLD, LLD, KB Articles, Process Mapping)
  • Experience in Agile methodologies (Jira, Confluence, Miro)
  • Experience in Infrastructure Migrations, Application Migrations and an all-round understanding of holistic migration procedures.

We are looking for hard working VDI Professionals with a minimum of 5 years’ experience in Citrix, with the ability to think on their feet, ask questions, bring multiple departments together to solve issues and learn new technologies within a fast-paced collaborative environment.

Please apply should you fit the above criteria

Expected salary: £600 per day

Location: London

Job date: Fri, 12 Jan 2024 08:23:24 GMT

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