Principal Citrix Architect
Principal Citrix Architect
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At Ascensustechnologyis more than just a solution.It powers the business that helps millions of people save for what mattersretirement education and healthcare. Our technology experts tackle exciting challenges in collaborative teams but work in an environment where individual and career development is always valued. Technology associates leverage their talents and passion building new and innovative platforms creating programs founded in automation in agile frameworks and driving existing and new marketsall of which supports the rapid growth of a dynamic industry leader.
Section 1: Position Summary
The Principal Architect Citrix Engineering is the seniormost technical resource within the infrastructure department focused on Citrix stability scalability performance and user experience. This role provides technical leadership and guidance within the Citrix tower and more broadly within IT Infrastructure. The Principal Architect Citrix Engineering is responsible for designing and deploying solutions with a focus on scalability performance and availability with an emphasis on user experience. This position provides technical leadership to Infrastructure teams and provides the highest level of support for issues in the production and development environments. This position is responsible for working with all IT teams to define the future IT strategy and deliver on technical objectives which align with the overall vision.
Section 2: Job Functions Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Responsible for protecting securing and proper handling of all confidential data held by Ascensus to ensure against unauthorized access improper transmission and/or unapproved disclosure of information that could result in harm to Ascensus or our clients.
Our IClient service philosophy and our Core Values of People Matter Quality First and Integrity Always should be visible in your actions on a daytoday basis showing your support of our organizational culture.
Evaluate recommend and deliver on Citrix performance improvements through implementation of thirdparty solutions while overseeing performance tuning of the environment.
Provide operations and technical support for the client Citrix Server environment and associated applications such as XenApp XenDesktop FSLogix Storefront Citrix PVS & MCS Netscaler MPX/VPX
Design and implementation of Group Policies to enforce standards for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure.
Responsible for innovation roadmaps maintenance scheduling life cycle management and capacity management for Citrix onprem and cloud environments and related dependent technologies.
Primarily responsible for the design implementation and support of solutions related to Citrix projects and initiatives.
Supports Service Delivery Management teams to ensure solutions incorporate requisite operational methods procedure facilities and tools to achieve defined operational metrics.
Provide Level 3 support for incidents investigations root cause analysis and event documentation/reporting.
Work with clients and other Application virtualization team members to architect design and implement Citrix Virtualization Solutions.
Technical leadership within the infrastructure organization in developing a future vision and roadmap which align with business goals.
Evaluate new technologies to enhance performance and efficiency
Review and optimize overall hardware configurations and develop plans to integrate new hardware and software components.
Lead the evaluation and delivery of a cloud strategy.
Lead the evaluation and delivery of an enhanced Disaster Recovery practice and continued progress towards full redundant active datacenters.
Identify and lead other projects and tasks that achieve the goals of scalability performance and stability.
Provide Executive Leadership updates on threeyear plan and progress against that plan. Lead the course correction as needed.
Supervision
N/A
Section 3: Experience Skills Knowledge Requirements
Possess a thorough understanding of Microsoft Windows operating systems core services applications Threat Management Citrix hardware and software technologies.
Experience in largescale design and support of Desktop Virtualization technologies utilizing Citrix on VMware with indepth configuration knowledge of Microsoft productivity applications.
Experience in performance measurement and optimization software such as Glassbox LoginVSI Dynatrace ControlUp.
Proven expertise across the entire compute storage automation and cloud stack
Expertise in networking load balancing. Clustering HA
Excellent consultative verbal/written communication skills analytical ability
Excellent presentation skills and executive delivery
Excels in a result focused organization.
Possesses an innovative and changeorientated personality that isnt afraid to proceed where it was deemed difficult or off limits.
Vision leadership problem solving initiative judgment.
Preferred technology skills:
Working experience in a large enterprise environment with Virtual Desktop Infrastructure.
Active Directory and group policy
PowerShell scripting and automation
Citrix Cloud
Citrix Netscaler Management and Troubleshooting
Citrix PVS / MCS / XenApp
Citrix Workspace Environment Management
Flash and traditional disk storage systems (PURE/NetApp/IBM)
Cisco UCS or Other Hyperconverged Infrastructure
Azure and/or AWS deployments
Microsoft Office 365 Teams OneDrive SharePoint
.NET/IIS
DevOps/Automation toolsets
Enterprise architecture and technical design experience
Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent work experience
10 years experience in IT including 2 years developing cloud strategies.
Experience with a variety of database platforms Windows operating system platforms and application development including MS SQL Server Sybase and Visual Basic.
Excellent organization skills proven analytical abilities and decisionmaking skills.
Ability to participate in scheduled nonbusiness hour implementation and maintenance activities.
Available after hours as needed.
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Required Experience:
Staff IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
