Virtualization Engineer (Systems Engineer II - VDI)

Edgewater Federal Solutions•Pocatello, ID

36d•Hybrid

About The Position

Future Opportunities: Virtualization Engineer (VDI Systems Engineer II) Are you a Virtualization Engineer with VDI expertise looking to support critical national missions while advancing your career? Edgewater Federal Solutions is actively building a pipeline of talented professionals for future full-time Virtualization Engineer (VDI Systems Engineer II) opportunities across our growing federal programs. Whether you already hold an Active Top Secret Clearance or are seeking an employer willing to sponsor you for one, we encourage you to apply and connect with our team. We are committed to investing in exceptional talent and can sponsor qualified candidates for a Top Secret clearance. We're seeking skilled virtualization professionals who thrive in complex enterprise environments, enjoy solving challenging infrastructure and VDI-related problems, and want their work to make a meaningful impact. By joining our talent pipeline today, you'll be among the first considered as future opportunities become available. This is an excellent opportunity to network with our recruiting team, showcase your expertise, and position yourself for upcoming roles supporting mission-critical government operations.

Requirements

6 years of relevant experience designing and implementing virtual platforms for desktop, applications, and server virtualization solutions is required.
U.S. Citizenship is required per contract to obtain and maintain a U.S. Top Secret clearance
Hands on experience in implementing and supporting Citrix Xen Desktop, VMware vSphere, Hypervisor Management, Active Directory, GPO Management, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Deployments.
The Candidate shall have expert experience in implementing and supporting Citrix Xen Desktop, Application Virtualization, Load Balancers, VMware vSphere, Hypervisor Design, Hyper Converged Deployments, VSAN Administration, Microsoft SQL, Active Directory, GPO Management, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Deployments of 50000+ Desktops, and VMware VDI environments.

Nice To Haves

Citrix Certified Associate (CCA-V), VMware Certified Professional 6 – Desktop and Mobility (VCP6-DTM), and/or Nutanix Platform Professional (NPP).
Bachelor’s degree
Active TS clearance

Responsibilities

Responsible for engineering all VDI design, deployment, and maintenance of VDI systems and components within the FBI.
Install, patch, upgrade, update, and document the current environments, design, document and deploy upgrades, and provide on-site expertise for both Citrix and VMware VDI environments currently in use by the FBI.
Responsible for engineering and configuring printing between various classification levels and ensuring security of data for all FBI VDI systems.
Proactively address performance and anticipated user requirements.
Shall be able to support both Windows and Linux mixed environment.
Design overall VDI solutions, conduct planning, requirements analysis, pre and post implementation support, training, and maintenance.
Responsible for ensuring that the client’s performance, security, user experience, reliability, availability, and all other functional and non-functional requirements are met.
Shall maintain system documentation.
Shall assist with system accreditation and monitoring.
Engineer and configure printing between various classification levels and ensuring security of data for all FBI VDI systems.
Engineer, deploy and O&M the Microsoft operating system baseline images for use on all FBI enterprise endpoints. All baseline images must meet DISA STIG and internal FBI Security recommendations. Incremental baseline releases are due Quarterly, NLT the 15th of each month (January, April, July, and October).
Provide engineering, deployment, and transition to O&M services for a broad range of current and future Microsoft applications and technologies, or other third- party tools that integrate with Microsoft products. Currently utilized technologies include but are not limited to: Microsoft End Point Configuration Manager (MECM), Microsoft System Center Software Portal (MSCSP), and Microsoft Office products.
Create automation scripts and deploy orchestration and automation processes and products to support the FBI’s VDI, workstation and Controlled Interface environments which are expected to provide reduced spin up / spin down times, standardized deployments, business process automation, self-service portals, user and customer experience enhancements, automated patching, and maintenance.
Proactively address performance and anticipated user requirements.
Support both a Windows and Linux mixed environment.
Responsible for the engineering, deployment and O&M of hyper converged server and storage solutions for use in the FBI’s VDI environments. Current implemented hyper converged technologies include but are not limited to Nutanix, Dell, and VMware.