VDI Engineer

Our client has an opportunity available for a VDI Engineer to support our client with their core desktop technology solutions.

Job Description:

As an Infrastructure Engineer at Client you will be an integral part of an agile team within Employee Platforms (EP) that works to enhance build and deliver trusted marketleading technology products in a secure stable and scalable way.

EP delivers measurable business value by providing core desktop technology solutions that meet business demand while realizing cost efficiencies. In alignment with the global technology strategy for the firm this team are responsible for architecting designing and engineering an enterprise scale desktop platform across public and private cloud infrastructure.

The candidate must be able to work within the small globally distributed team and drive technical solutions through to completion for the core desktop platform within Client. The candidate must have proven ability to diagnose isolate and resolve complex application and network issues down to the packet level.

The candidate must have strong handson experience engineering platform solutions within Microsoft Azure with a focus on designing for the enterprise and utilizing agile development techniques within the desktop engineering function. Ideally worked with a largescale user base (CLIENT in excess of 320k users)

Job responsibilities:

• Design engineer and deploy services in Azure using automation tools IaC (Infrastructure as Code) Terraform Bicep ARM PowerShell and Azure Cli.
• Create CI / CD pipelines for compute networking storage and other infrastructure deployments to ensure full end to end automation.
• Build scalable and reusable Logic App workflows and scripts to deploy and manage Azure infrastructure according to approved architecture standards.
• Collaborate with senior technology and business stakeholders to understand requirements and engineer solutions around them.
• Partner with external vendors and internal teams to overcome technical challenges and deliver solutions.
• Add to team culture of diversity equity inclusion and respect.
• Execute creative software solutions design development and technical troubleshooting
• with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems.

Required qualifications capabilities and skills:

• Extensive knowledge of public cloud and onpremise Windows virtual desktop environments.
• Expertise in Windows authentication protocols Azure RBAC network topologies security principles firewalls and technical problem solving.
• Experience working within an Agile framework Jira and ServiceNow.
• Hands on experience with machine and application management with InTune.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD Pipelines in a globally distributed environment using Git Jenkins Docker registry etc.
• Hands on experience with deploying azure cloudbased services in a continuous delivery using IAC toolset such as Terraform Bicep and ARM.
• Knowledge on Hashicorp packer to build automated machine images in Azure.
• Experience with implementing an API architecture using Azure API Management including advanced knowledge on services like Azure API Gateway Azure Logic Apps (Automated
• environment) Azure Functions Azure Storage Application Insights Azure Monitoring Event Hub and Microsoft Power Platforms.
• Knowledge and experience working with Entra ID / Authentication Graph API and Microsoft virtualization solutions like Windows 365 / Azure Virtual Desktop.
• Basic knowledge of Azure networking services such as Virtual Networks VPN Gateway
• ExpressRoute and Network Security Groups.
• Demonstratable PowerShell expertise.
• Knowledge of industry wide technology trends and best practices.
• Passionate and Energetic Technology Leader / Problem solver.
• Thrives on innovation solid engineering practices.
• Indepth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems.
• Demonstrated proficiency in software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g. cloud artificial intelligence machine learning mobile etc.

Basic Qualifications:

• Experience managing and engineering the automation for large scale windows based platforms.
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Office and core desktop applications and fundamental application integration experience. Work through automation framework in Azure and create foundational layers
• Architect experience of VMWare or Citrix desktop virtualization technologies.
• Experience of deploying and supporting large scale O/S migrations and introducing new technology based on business needs and industry standards.
• Advanced Networking concepts (TCP/IP Routing Firewalls Network Security).

Preferred qualifications capabilities and skills:

• Strong customer facing and relationship building skills
• Ability to uncover business challenges and develop solutions to solve those challenges
• Expert knowledge of the Windows 11 operating system.
• Knowledge of Amazon AWS Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud technologies
• Ability to communicate effectively with business leaders application developers and systems technology experts.
• Ability to coordinate efforts across disparate groups.
• Ability to work well at a conceptual level and to drive concepts out into workable solutions.
• Ability to define target state architectures and develop transition plans for achieving target state.
• Excellent communication skills both written oral (informal discussion) and presentation.
• Ability to oversee and mentor lessexperienced team members.
• Azure Cloud Certification (or AWS Google etc.