Senior Citrix Engineer

OSC Global•Culpeper, VA

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

As the Senior Citrix Engineer, the individual will maintain and manage Citrix applications. The administrator will also install and update Citrix farms, design and plan Citrix NetScalar environments, and develop the cloud infrastructure that the Citrix farms run on. In this role, the Citrix Engineer will provide technical support for incident response, service degradations, outages, and other interruptions. In addition, the Citrix Engineer will provide tiers I, II, and III support to Citrix XenDesktop (VDi) environments, including configuring, troubleshooting, and resolving issues in both Citrix PVS and Windows Server environments while investigating hardware and software problems related to the Citrix infrastructure, and perform corrective actions.

Requirements

Must have a valid Security+ Certification
Must have a Secret Security clearance or higher, and be eligible for Top-Secret clearance
Certification in Citrix or equivalent work experience relative to supporting XenApp and XenDesktop platforms
Minimum 10 or more years of experience with designing, building, and managing Citrix Environments.
Must have hands-on experience in Citrix Farm Migrations, Citrix management tools like Director, and especially RCA preparation
Must have hands-on experience in ITIL processes, Incident management and change management, Studio
Experience in Citrix Secure Gateway, Web Interface, NetScaler
Experience in Building and configuring Citrix Farms
Experienced with deployment of servers utilizing PVS and/or MCS in a virtual environment
Working knowledge of Insight and Director monitoring platforms
Must have and maintain Secret Security clearance or higher

Responsibilities

Performs all aspects of Citrix design, performance-monitoring, tuning, scripting, upgrades, and maintenance of all production Citrix systems
Supports applications, hardware, operating systems, and network infrastructure
Makes architectural and operational recommendations applying updates to the Citrix environments
Maintenance, monitoring, upgrading, troubleshooting
Daily maintenance and troubleshooting of the servers in Citrix
Administration on Citrix PVS for server maintenance, upgrades, and image maintenance, updates, and upgrades
Configures, deploys, monitors, and maintenance of VDI tasks
Following vendor and industry best practices for cloud and software configuration
Draws upon concepts of tools, technologies, and methodologies to collaborate with other technical specialists when carrying out assigned duties
Has technical knowledge and depth in maintaining MS Operating System
Performs other tasks as required by OSC and the Government contracting office