Citrix Engineer

Maryland  ‐ Onsite
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Description

This position is part of a dedicated Citrix team supporting over 20,000 customers in an environment comprising of 400 Servers.

The successful candidate will have operational responsibilities as well as play a vital part in engineering projects of varying complexity and priority, both as an individual and as part of a team. This position requires a highly technical person that documents and communicates well with team members both in person and in writing. This role will support and address issues from development to production, and collaborate with internal IT support teams and resources across the enterprise. This is a position with significant operational responsibilities and will require a detail-oriented individual able to follow complex technical instructions. The successful candidate will have excellent communication skills in order to interface with both internal and remote infrastructure teams to address issues as well as provide project support.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design, management, and administration of a large scale Citrix environment
  • Troubleshooting and remediation of all Citrix farms in the enterprise
  • Group Policy consulting and implementation
  • Creation of technical and operational management documentation and updates
  • Working with the change management process in line with organizational processes
  • Planning, prioritization, and organization of work and deliverables
  • Staying current on industry developments and best practices and recommendations by communicating with peers, vendors, and industry contacts
SKILLS:

Required Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's Degree or 7 years work related experience in system administration on various computing platforms.
  • 5 years of work experience as a dedicated Citrix Administrator/Engineer
  • 5 years of experience in the architecture, design, and support of large scale Citrix environments
  • 5 years of deep and broad experience with Citrix components including XenServer, XenDesktop, XenApp and the Citrix ICA client
  • 5 years of experience deploying XenApp/XenDesktop in an enterprise of 10,000+ users
  • 5 years of experience in Microsoft based infrastructure technologies, technical solutions, infrastructure design and implementation practices
  • 2 years of experience implementing Group Policies as related to Citrix Environment
  • Solid understanding of networking concepts and technologies including TCP/IP, WINS, DNS, DHCP, PXE, and load balancing
  • Strong system diagnosis, troubleshooting and problem resolution skills
  • Strong documentation and communication skills
  • Ability to complete tasks with minimal instruction and supervision
  • Ability to effectively communicate with all levels of end users, IT and management staff
  • Attention to detail as well as strong organizational, planning, problem-solving and multi-tasking skills
  • Ability to perform emergency response as necessary, be available for after-hour projects, on-call duty, and overtime
Preferred Qualifications:
  • Citrix Certified Advanced Administrator (CCAA) and/or experience at a high level of Citrix product competency.
  • Experience implementing Disaster Recovery for Citrix farms
  • 2 years of experience in supporting Microsoft Active Directory ) - including but not limited to multiple domains, trusts, Kerberos, and NTLM
  • Citrix NetScalers experience a plus
  • VB Scripting a plus
Start date
n.a
From
Synectics
Published at
10.10.2014
Project ID:
788701
Contract type
Freelance
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