Description
For our client in Brussels we are urgently looking for a Desktop Virtualisation (VDI) specialist.
Start: ASAP
Duration: till end of December 2013
Location: Brussels (center)
Languages:
Dutch and French (or at least one of them as mother tongue)
English (conversational)
Description
For our client in the banking industry located in Brussels, we are urgently looking for a desktop virtualisation (VDI) specialist to join the Workplace department. Engineer or design architect, you have good communication skills and the capability to work autonomously, organising and accompanying the strategy of the business and IT-infrastructure.
The workstations provided by our client are not only traditional FATs anymore, but are mainly on a centralized server based Citrix platform. This platform mainly uses application streaming (APP-V) and exceptionally application installations (.MSI). They are now looking to extend this platform with some VDI workstations.
Your mission:
The key tasks of the VDI specialist on the Workplace environments are:
- Build a proof of concept for some of our financial clients (Banking & Insurance industry)
- Responsible for designing, configuring, testing, implementing, administering and troubleshooting virtualization and cloud solutions in all types of production environments.
- Managing the assigned projects, communicating the status of the project to the customers IT staff and management, vendors, and internal customers.
- You interact with and support the sales team, as well as interact with the other practice areas.
- Write technical documents related to virtual desktop stations. You will provide guidance on how to implement the VDI specifications, including suggestions on how service delivery can be achieved in a manner that minimizes the need for exceptions.
- Work with team members to deploy XenApp and XenDesktop based solutions to customers.
- Peer-Review proposed project plans and scopes of work.
- Provide technical support to end users.
- Assist with project planning and architecture design.
Your profile:
Required skills:
- Excellent oral and written communications skills, and interaction with end users, vendors, and technical staff is required.
- Strong interpersonal skills; must be a team player as well as work well with others
- Knowledge of project management methodologies and change management processes is required
- Must be a self starter and capable of being responsible for time and task management
5 years minimum hands on experience with the following technologies:
- Citrix XenDesktop - Recent experience preferably with a recent version, with an understanding of the impact design decisions and concepts will have on the Back End systems.
- Large-Environment VDI experience - must understand performance impact, I/O concepts
- Understanding or experience with non-pooled, assigned desktops (as well as pooled) in a large environment Citrix Provisioning Server environment or knowledge of machine creating services.
- Citrix XenApp 4.5 - 6.5
- Citrix XenDesktop 5.5 - 7.1
- Citrix Provisioning Services
- Citrix MCS
- Microsoft Active Directory R2
- Microsoft Windows server R2, XP, Vista, 7, 8
- Microsoft RDP and RDS technologies
The following skills are desired, but not a requirement:
- VMware VI 3.5, vSphere 4.x, vSphere 5.x
- Citrix XenServer 5.x-6.x
- Citrix Netscaler
- Citrix Access Gateway
- Appsense suite