Citrix Engineer
About The Position
Design, optimize, and support secure virtual desktop environments for a global enterprise customer base using PowerShell, VMware Horizon, and Citrix Cloud. The role focuses on stable delivery of mapping-oriented applications, performance tuning, and incident resolution. The engineer helps ensure consistent user experience and operational excellence across geographies in an onsite, day-shift work model. This is a six-month temporary assignment based onsite in Jersey City, New Jersey. The position provides operational support for incidents, service requests, and change tasks, and works with infrastructure, network, application, product, and business teams to maintain reliable virtual desktop services for geospatial workloads.
Requirements
- 10 years of experience.
- Experience with VDI, VMware Horizon, Citrix, and Citrix Cloud.
- Experience developing and maintaining PowerShell automation scripts.
Nice To Haves
- VMware Certified Professional Desktop certification.
- Citrix Certified Associate Virtualization certification (preferred).
- Microsoft Certified Azure Virtual Desktop Specialty certification (beneficial).
Responsibilities
- Design and maintain scalable virtual desktop infrastructures for geospatial applications and tools, providing reliable access across business units.
- Administer VMware Horizon environments, optimize resource utilization, and reduce disruption to mapping and analytics workloads.
- Configure and manage Citrix Cloud deployments for map-processing applications in line with performance and security standards.
- Develop and maintain PowerShell automation for VDI provisioning, profile management, capacity checks, and routine maintenance.
- Monitor end-to-end VDI performance, identify potential service degradation, and implement corrective actions to minimize downtime.
- Coordinate with infrastructure, network, and application teams to troubleshoot incidents, identify root causes, and implement sustainable remediation.
- Implement access controls, patching, and hardening procedures for VDI components hosting georeferenced data.
- Document architectures, standard operating procedures, troubleshooting runbooks, and automation guides.
- Work with product owners and business analysts to translate mapping and spatial-data requirements into VDI capacity plans and configuration baselines.
- Assess impacts and perform regression validation for platform upgrades and configuration changes to maintain continuity of geospatial workloads.
- Provide day-shift support for incidents, service requests, and change tasks; communicate with stakeholders and manage restoration expectations.
- Analyze incident trends and recurring issues, propose improvements, and track implementation outcomes.
- Guide junior technical staff through knowledge-sharing sessions on PowerShell, VDI best practices, and support for geospatial applications.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
