Description
Seeking a strong, independent Architect with in-depth experience of VDI technologies, which include Citrix and Microsoft in an Enterprise environment. They will be responsible for advanced level design, integration, implementation and modification of a wide variety of user information systems usually within a highly complex environment. This includes coordination of the installation, testing, operation, troubleshooting and maintenance of those systems. Provide functional and technical expertise in support of user systems operation and maintenance. May include support of labs, training facilities and general IT office software and hardware. Provides technical advice and leadership to lower level technical staff as well as a liaison to campus for VDI needs.
Major Responsibilities:
- Conduct needs analysis, planning and scheduling the installation of a wide variety of new or modified hardware/software.
- Develop functional and technical IT system requirements and specifications.
- Provide technical support through allocating systems resources, managing accounts, administering passwords,documentation, security, recover-ability and access including deploying security and operating system patches.
- Maintain hardware and software inventories including developing and updating departmental distributed software license-management policy..
Basic Qualifications:-
Education: Bachelor's in Computer Science or related field or equivalent combination of education and experience
- Work Experience: Four to six years job related experience.
- Skills: This job requires advanced knowledge of complex concepts, practices and procedures associated with IT systems design, installation and maintenance. Expert knowledge in variety of applications and platforms is required.
-Advanced experience with Active Directory and Citrix
-Advanced experience with Windows 2008 R2 and 2012 R2
Preferred Qualifications
- Previous experience in production service delivery, including high availability or mission critical services surrounding VDI
- Previous experience with desktop and application virtualization technologies (VMware/Citrix preferred, Hyper-V, XenServer)
- Strong knowledge of enterprise network infrastructures and architectures (specialized certifications will be a plus), and enterprise storage infrastructure and architecture (ie, SAN, NAS, iSCSI)
- Management and support of application delivery controllers and load balancing technologies (Netscaler preferred)
- Previous experience providing architectural design, implementation, capacity planning and monitoring
- Previous experience managing overall technology life cycle, including incorporation of best practices, key trends, and emerging technologies for virtualization, storage, networking and provide/hybrid/public cloud
- Collaborated, socialized service offerings, facilitated technology transfer, and drove alignment for key internal and campus stakeholders, servicing needs of both academic and administrative domains
- Built POC and Pilot environments to characterize, compare, and contrast virtual environments with different virtualization stacks and remoting protocols
- Led or participated in complex problem management and root cause analysis
- Led or participated in vendor relationship management
- Scripting experience (ie Powershell)