Type of Requisition:

Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:

Secret

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:

Top Secret

Public Trust/Other Required:

None

Job Family:

IT Infrastructure and Operations

Job Qualifications:

Skills:

Citrix VDI, Cloud Hosting, Virtual Environments

Certifications:

None

Experience:

10 + years of related experience

US Citizenship Required:

Yes

Job Description:

Position Summary

The VDI/Citrix Engineer designs, deploys, integrates, and maintains virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solutions across both onpremises and cloud environments. This role supports highspeed VDI platformsincluding Citrix, Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD), and AWS Workspacesand contributes to missioncritical customer programs requiring secure, scalable, and highperformance virtual environments.

Core Responsibilities
Design & Architecture

• Define system architecture for new and existing VDI environments.
• Develop enterpriselevel and solutionlevel designs for onpremises and cloud VDI systems.

VDI Platform Engineering

• Deploy and enhance cloudbased VDI solutions across AWS, Azure, and other providers.
• Integrate Citrix, AVD, and AWS Workspaces with existing infrastructure.
• Build and manage gold images, application packaging, and software offerings.

Systems Engineering & Administration

• Install, configure, test, and maintain operating systems, management tools, and system software.
• Administer Windows Server, Linux/Unix, Identity & Access Management (IAM) solutions, and largescale integrations.
• Maintain environments at required security posture; apply updates and remediations.

Cloud Engineering

• Build, migrate, and test AWS and Azure environments and integrations.
• Use infrastructureascode tools such as CloudFormation, Terraform, and Ansible.
• Automate operations and expand cloud hosting capabilities.

Operational Support

• Monitor and maintain infrastructure to meet client requirements.
• Provide documentation, technical briefings, and support program status reviews.
• Collaborate with remote teams and provide occasional afterhours oncall support.

Additional Duties

• Coordinate with technical teams responsible for cloud hosting infrastructures.
• Deploy largescale environments via infrastructureascode.
• Rapidly prototype to refine system requirements and technical specifications.
• Maintain environment configuration in line with industry standards and best practices.
• Remediate application/package installations.
• Develop templates or scripts to automate developer and operations functions.
• Identify new tools and processes to improve cloud platforms.
• Prepare technical documentation and briefing materials for reviews and control gates.

Required Qualifications

• Education: Bachelors degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Cybersecurity, or related field.
• Experience: 10+ years.
• Minimum of 45 years in VDI engineering or systems engineering.
• Clearance: Active Secret with the ability to obtain and maintain Top Secret.
• Certifications: DoD 8570.01M IAT Level II (Security+).
• Technical Skills: Citrix, AVD, AWS Workspaces; Windows/Linux administration; AWS CloudFormation; Terraform; Ansible; Identity & Access Management; Profile Management; largescale system integration.

Desired Skills

• Citrix certifications (e.g., CCAV, CCPV).
• Azure Virtual Desktop; ARM/BICEP templates and automation.
• Experience with JIRA, Confluence, and project lifecycle workflows.

• Location: Remote with 25% travel. Miami is the preferred location, and the travel will be less for a candidate located there.

#GDITPriority

The likely salary range for this position is $149,469 - $195,500. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

Travel Required:

10-25%

Telecommuting Options:

Remote

Work Location:

Any Location / Remote

Additional Work Locations: