Virtual Desktop Engineer

Quantum Sky•Washington, DC

4d•$150,000 - $160,000•Onsite

About The Position

Quantum Sky is searching for a Senior Citrix Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Engineer to support design, implementation, administration, optimization, and support of enterprise Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops environments. This senior-level role provides technical leadership for the organization's virtual desktop infrastructure, ensuring high availability, security, scalability, and performance across on-premises environments. The Senior Citrix VDI Engineer collaborates with systems engineers, network engineers, cybersecurity teams, application owners, and project managers to deliver secure, resilient, and efficient virtual desktop and application services. The position serves as the technical lead for VDI infrastructure projects, lifecycle management, troubleshooting, automation, and disaster recovery planning.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree required (experience and education equivalents are considered and can be substituted for a Bachelor’s Degree).
10 years of general work experience / 8 years relevant “functional” experience in end-user computing/VDI engineering
Advanced certification preferred (Citrix CCP-V, VMware VCP-VCF)
Deep expertise in VDI architecture, application virtualization, and performance tuning at scale
Demonstrated experience leading enterprise-wide VDI programs or migrations
Strong cross-functional collaboration skills with server, network, storage, and security teams
An active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility is required.

Nice To Haves

Experience with a Citrix VDI environment
Experience with a VMware ESXi, vCenter virtual infrastructure
Experience with enterprise management of Dell Wyse Thin-Clients
Experience with peripherals such as printers, scanners, card readers in VDI environment
Experience with network attached storage and protocols such as NFS and CIFS

Responsibilities

Design and architect the Citrix enterprise VDI solution for scalability, performance, and resiliency
Lead at-scale VDI deployments, migrations, and platform upgrades
Optimize VDI environments for cost, performance, and user experience (density, compute resource allocation, storage I/O)
Establish standards for image management, application delivery, and security within the VDI environment
Lead troubleshooting and root-cause analysis for complex, high-impact VDI incidents
Mentor mid-level engineers and collaborate with security teams on VDI hardening and compliance
Evaluate emerging end-user computing technologies and recommend roadmap changes