Description
Title: Citrix Administrator
Duration: 6+ Month Contract
Number of Positions: 1
Years of experience: 5+Years
Job Description:
Citrix Administrator
- This position will be responsible for computer system administration and interact with vendor management of Windows Server Citrix environments, including responsibility for 1st level technical support with application owners regarding requirements for Windows Server and Citrix XenApp 6.x./7.x.
- Responsible for build out and farm/server life cycle activities based on existing solutions, designs and services.
- In addition, the Deployment Engineer will be primary resource for supporting any rollout of Citrix related solutions.
- Position is also responsible recommendations of application integration within the Citrix environment with the extension support with Active Directory, Group Policy, and Windows networking Server environment.
- Experience configuring and troubleshooting Thin Client environment.
Other desired technical skills include:
- XenApp 6.5, PVS, XenDesktop 5.x, Powershell/Batch/VBScript, and MS development tools. IT environment also includes SQL Server, IIS, Office 365, Lync, SharePoint, SCCM, WSUS, WDM and WTOS
Skills and Abilities:
- Provide expertise and support for Citrix Infrastructure.
- Evaluate, test and document application deployment strategies in Citrix.
- Ongoing evaluation and analysis of current Citrix infrastructure to provide optimum performance
- Perform support & administrative tasks pertaining to the end user environment, applications, roaming profiles, AD policies, and Citrix policies as required.
- Proactively monitor the health and performance of the Citrix environment and it's dependencies in order to maintain optimal performance.
- Individual will be a champion for Citrix and working heavily with the various business units to get them converted to Citrix
- Ability to analyze complex problems and recommend (implement) solutions
- Strong technical knowledge of network fundamentals and MS OS Windows Server 2012, 2008 R2, 2003, Windows 7/Windows 8
- Highly self-motivated, and able to thrive productively in highly secure physical and cyber setting.
- Ability to work effectively and handle multiple concurrent work tasks on a daily basis in a fast paced and demanding business environment
- Be comfortable and productive working in team/Matrix environment, multi-discipline teams with customers one-on-one, and/or independently without direct supervision
- Strong work ethic, be committed to customer success, and demonstrate passion for high customer sat.
- Proven team player dedicated to providing top level, positive customer service delivery at all times.
- Ability to remain calm and composed when under stressful situations.
- Maintain the Citrix base images
- Maintain Citrix infrastructure Servers such as Access Gateway, Web Interface, Zone Data Collectors, EdgeSight, etc.
- Manage Citrix server life cycle (add, remove, retire, and refresh)
- Execute product life cycle activities such as testing and installing XenApp and/or XenDesktop service packs deployment
- Work on build out and new application deployment specific projects.
- Provide application integration support to the business owner and packaging teams as needed
- Assist product owners in smoke-testing of applications
- Maintain Citrix development and test environments
- The Deployment Engineer may own or specialize on one or more technical components in support of production operations.
Required Experience:
- Strong individual contributor with 5 years of experience in implementing and administering Citrix and Workstation infrastructures
- Proven track record of integrating Citrix and Workstation based solutions on multiple environments.
- Developed expertise in Citrix specific product areas (XenApp, Web interface, NetScaler, Citrix image management, Plugin management)
- Assist with impact on Citrix infrastructure based on change management implemented (post mortem/QA) to define success factors for service request