Salary
💰 $75,200 - $158,100 per year
Tech Stack
AzureTerraformVMware
About the role
- Serve as the Team Lead and (SME) subject matter expert on the VDI team for the Dept. of the Air Force
- Responsible for establishing the processes, technology, and providing user support to allow the EITaaS Team to provide an Enterprise VDI solution
- Work with manager to understand requirements, priorities, and objectives to ensure work supports larger capabilities and direction of overall solution
- Participate in full life cycle of activities including deployment and validation efforts
- Implement and maintain Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) VDI capabilities and maintain application security
- Continuously review VDI infrastructure for software and security patching and support continuous monitoring efforts
- Support and maintain documentation for the EITaaS VDI Azure Virtual Desktop environment
- Assist less experienced colleagues in resolving end user issues with the AVD services
- Support Windows Zero Touch Implementation (ZTI) processes for AVD solutions
- Manage and maintain Azure AVD resources and OS images; deploy monthly OS and application patches
- Troubleshoot AVD issues and provide remediation steps
- Create, execute and troubleshoot PowerShell scripts and deployment capabilities to automate AVD functionality
- Create Host Pools for Azure AVD images; manage and maintain AVD Images and roll out host pool updates
- Support identification, reporting, tracking and mitigation of risks/issues discovered
Requirements
- Ability to obtain/maintain Secret clearance
- 10+ Years of relevant experience (Bachelor’s Degree in applicable field may be substituted for 5 years of experience)
- Current certification for Security+ or any of CISSP, CCNA, or CCNP
- Experience building Windows client systems
- Experience with automated build processes preferred but not required
- Experience with Azure resources and deployments
- Ability to create and execute documented detailed technical processes
- Strong Windows Operating System problem-solving and analytical skills
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and clients
- Experience with Windows virtualization capabilities: Azure Virtual Desktop or VMware Horizon VDI preferred; Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware EXSI, or Microsoft RDS acceptable
- Experience with Windows Zero Touch Installation (ZTI) processes (Desired)
- Experience with STIG Windows security controls and NIST 800-53 or other regulatory requirements (Desired)
- Experience creating, executing and troubleshooting complex PowerShell scripts (Desired)
- Experience with managing Active Directory domain user and computer objects (Desired)
- Experience with Microsoft Configuration Manager (Desired)
- One of the following certifications: Azure DevOps Engineering Expert, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Azure Administrator Associate, Azure Security Engineer Associate (Desired)
- Experience integrating, securing, and understanding: Active Directory Certificate Services (ADCS), Active Directory Federated Services (ADFS), Windows AD-integrated PKI, Single Sign On (SSO) implementation (Desired)
- Experience with Endpoint policy controls via AD Group Policy Object and Intune (Desired)
- Experience with Terraform deployments (Desired)
- Experience with Windows Smartcard authentication (Desired)
- Experience with Entra ID Tenants and Microsoft365 (Desired)