Senior Citrix Engineer

OSC Edge

$110K — $130K *
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Valid Security+ Certification required.
  • Must hold a Secret Security clearance or higher, eligible for Top-Secret clearance.
  • Citrix certification or equivalent experience with XenApp/XenDesktop platforms.
  • At least 10 years of experience in designing, building, and managing Citrix environments.
  • Hands-on experience with Citrix Farm migrations and related management tools.
  • Knowledge of ITIL processes and incident/change management.
  • Experience with Citrix Secure Gateway, Web Interface, and NetScaler.

Responsibilities

  • Perform Citrix design, performance monitoring, and maintenance of production systems.
  • Support applications, hardware, operating systems, and networking infrastructure.
  • Make architectural recommendations and apply updates to Citrix environments.
  • Conduct daily maintenance and troubleshooting of Citrix servers.
  • Administer Citrix PVS for server maintenance and upgrades.
  • Configure, deploy, and monitor VDI tasks.
  • Collaborate with technical specialists utilizing various tools and methodologies.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Life insurance and AD&D coverage.
  • Flexible spending accounts.
  • Accident, critical illness, and hospital indemnity coverage.
  • 401(k) and ROTH retirement plans with company match.
  • Pet insurance.
  • Identity theft and fraud protection coverage.
Full Job Description
As the Senior Citrix Engineer, the individual will maintain and manage Citrix applications. The administrator will also install and update Citrix farms, design and plan Citrix NetScalar environments, and develop the cloud infrastructure that the Citrix farms run on. In this role, the Citrix Engineer will provide technical support for incident response, service degradations, outages, and other interruptions. In addition, the Citrix Engineer will provide tiers I, II, and III support to Citrix XenDesktop (VDi) environments, including configuring, troubleshooting, and resolving issues in both Citrix PVS and Windows Server environments while investigating hardware and software problems related to the Citrix infrastructure, and perform corrective actions.

This is a Hybrid role located in Miami, FL, or Los Angeles, CA.

Responsibilities
  • Performs all aspects of Citrix design, performance-monitoring, tuning, scripting, upgrades, and maintenance of all production Citrix systems
  • Supports applications, hardware, operating systems, and network infrastructure
  • Makes architectural and operational recommendations applying updates to the Citrix environments
  • Maintenance, monitoring, upgrading, troubleshooting
  • Daily maintenance and troubleshooting of the servers in Citrix
  • Administration on Citrix PVS for server maintenance, upgrades, and image maintenance, updates, and upgrades
  • Configures, deploys, monitors, and maintenance of VDI tasks
  • Following vendor and industry best practices for cloud and software configuration
  • Draws upon concepts of tools, technologies, and methodologies to collaborate with other technical specialists when carrying out assigned duties
  • Has technical knowledge and depth in maintaining MS Operating System
  • Performs other tasks as required by OSC and the Government contracting office

Required Qualifications/Education and Experience
  • Must have a valid Security+ Certification
  • Must have a Secret Security clearance or higher, and be eligible for Top-Secret clearance
  • Certification in Citrix or equivalent work experience relative to supporting XenApp and XenDesktop platforms
  • Minimum 10 or more years of experience with designing, building, and managing Citrix Environments.
  • Must have hands-on experience in Citrix Farm Migrations, Citrix management tools like Director, and especially RCA preparation
  • Must have hands-on experience in ITIL processes, Incident management and change management, Studio
  • Experience in Citrix Secure Gateway, Web Interface, NetScaler
  • Experience in Building and configuring Citrix Farms
  • Experienced with deployment of servers utilizing PVS and/or MCS in a virtual environment
  • Working knowledge of Insight and Director monitoring platforms
  • Must have and maintain Secret Security clearance or higher

OSC Edge delivers a total rewards package that we know will attract, engage and retain top talent. Key elements of our package include a competitive base pay and a comprehensive benefits package:

We offer eligible employees with an opportunity to enroll in a variety of benefits offerings. Here are just some of our benefits for our US based positions:
  • Medical/ Dental/ Vision
  • Life insurance and AD&D
  • Flexible Spending
  • Accident, Critical Illness and Hospital Indemnity coverage
  • 401(k) and ROTH retirement options and company match
  • Pet Insurance
  • Identity Theft and Fraud Protection coverage

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