Salary
💰 $90,300 - $189,600 per year
Tech Stack
AzureDNSTerraformVMware
About the role
- Serve as the Senior Team Lead and SME on the VDI team for the Dept. of the Air Force
- Establish processes, technology, and provide user support to allow the EITaaS Team to provide an Enterprise VDI solution
- Participate in the full life cycle of activities including deployment and validation efforts
- Coach and lead the other VDI Engineers on the team
- Implement and maintain Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) VDI capabilities
- Continuously review VDI infrastructure to ensure service functionality and availability
- Support continuous monitoring efforts to proactively resolve environmental issues
- Develop and maintain documentation for the EITaaS VDI Azure Virtual Desktop environment
- Support Windows Zero Touch Implementation (ZTI) processes for AVD solutions
- Troubleshoot AVD issues/problems and provide remediation steps
- Design, create, maintain, and troubleshoot complex PowerShell scripts and other deployment capabilities to automate AVD functionality
- Develop strategy, plans, and capabilities in support of Windows ZTI for AVD solutions
- Self-sufficiently develop, support, and execute processes to create and administrate AVD Host Pools and baseline OS Images
- Manage and monitor autoscaling of AVD resources and track usage trend data
- Provide guidance, technical mentoring, and knowledge transfer to teammates
- Independently troubleshoot complex AVD issues including VMs, OS, and supporting Azure infrastructure
Requirements
- Ability to obtain/maintain Secret clearance
- 15+ Years of relevant experience (Bachelor’s Degree in relevant field may be substituted for 5 years of relevant experience)
- Current certification for Security+ or any of CISSP, CCNA, or CCNP
- Experience building Windows client systems
- Experience with Azure resources and deployments
- Experience with securing systems by following STIGs, best practices, and government/compliance requirements (such as NIST 800-53, FISMA, FEDRAMP)
- Experience with managing Active Directory domain user and computer objects
- 5+ years’ hands-on experience designing and creating PowerShell scripts
- Ability to create and execute documented detailed technical processes
- Strong Windows Operating System problem-solving and analytical skills
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Experience with Windows virtualization capabilities: Azure Virtual Desktop or VMware Horizon VDI preferred; Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware EXSI, or Microsoft RDS acceptable
- Experience integrating, securing, and understanding Microsoft platform services: ADCS, ADFS, DNS & DHCP, Remote Desktop Services
- Experience with Endpoint policy controls via AD Group Policy Object and Intune
- Experience with Entra ID Tenant and Microsoft365
- Experience with Terraform or other deployment automation capabilities
- Windows Smartcard authentication in AD domain environment