Remote Position
Cloud VDI Engineer, Azure Virtual Desktop
🌍 Remote · United States
💼 Full-time
Job Description:
- Design, operate, automate, and enhance Azure Virtual Desktop environments within a classified government environment
- Administer and maintain Azure Virtual Desktop host pools, session hosts, workspaces, and application groups
- Build, validate, deploy, and maintain standardized Windows and Linux VM images
- Manage the full lifecycle of VDI session hosts, including provisioning, patching, scaling, and retirement
- Diagnose and resolve complex issues involving user sessions, profiles, authentication, applications, networking, and system performance
- Package and deploy applications using Salt and other approved automation or configuration-management tools
- Monitor platform health, performance, capacity, and utilization, implementing durable corrective actions for recurring issues
- Apply system-hardening standards, security baselines, and vulnerability remediation to images and session hosts
- Plan and execute platform upgrades, image releases, patching windows, and scheduled maintenance
- Support incident response, root-cause analysis, capacity planning, and continuous improvement initiatives
- Collaborate with Platform Engineering, SRE, DevOps, Security, Networking, and application development teams
- Contribute to architectural decisions, cloud-native integrations, automation strategies, and high-assurance cloud design patterns
- Help scale and modernize the AVD service while maintaining strict security and compliance standards
- Perform other duties as assigned
Requirements:
- Must be a US citizen
- Active Secret security clearance
- Ability to meet eligibility requirements for applicable Special Access Programs
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent relevant experience, if contract allows)
- At least three years of professional experience supporting cloud, VDI, or virtualized infrastructure
- Hands-on experience administering Azure Virtual Desktop or a comparable enterprise VDI platform
- Experience building, patching, and maintaining Windows virtual machine images
- Working knowledge of Azure services supporting VDI environments
- Strong Windows systems administration and troubleshooting skills
- Strong documentation and communication skills
- Security+ certified or ability to obtain within 1-2 months
- Experience with at least one configuration-management or automation tool (e.g., Salt, Ansible, Chef, Puppet) preferred
- Experience troubleshooting identity, networking, profile, application, and performance issues in virtualized environments preferred
- Experience with platform monitoring, incident response, and root-cause analysis preferred
- AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator certification preferred
- Successful completion of background investigation, including criminal history and identity check
Benefits:
- Industry competitive benefits package
- Awards and recognition program
- Personalized attention from ARS Senior Managers
- Work/life balance
- Career development support and challenging work aligned with career goals
- Reasonable accommodation for applicants with disabilities