Systems Engineer Citrix SME

The Leidos Spatial Solutions team has an exciting opportunity for a Systems Engineer with Citrix/NetScaler and Windows system administration experience to work on cloud-based systems supporting mission critical operations. The team is involved in the operation and sustainment of multiple operational cloud deployed geospatial solutions including dozens of virtual desktops. A successful candidate will be a self-starter and have experience with installation configuration administration support and maintenance of cloud-based systems and the administration of Citrix virtual desktop infrastructure within the cloud.

Primary Responsibilities

Primary responsibilities will involve managing the virtual desktop infrastructure across multiple environments and systems while supporting a program level team; working directly with government and contractor POCs to troubleshoot and responding to complex user INCs (Incident Reports); proactively recommend configuration changes to help improve system performance; Deploy security patches and bug fixes to test and operational environments; author and update operational and security documentation including troubleshooting guides and SOPs.

Basic Qualifications

• Requires a BS in Information Systems Information Technology Computer Science or closely related discipline and 8 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 2 years of prior relevant experience; OR additional years of experience in lieu of degree
• Must possess an active Top Secret Security Clearance with ability to obtain TS/SCI with Polygraph post hire
• DOD 8140 Certification (Security or equivalent or higher)
• Experience with Microsoft Windows Server
• Windows administration experience
• Experience completing configuration remediation tasks based on security scans
• Citrix/NetScaler administration experience
• Demonstrated knowledge of the systems development life cycle
• Proficient in software integration projects in a service-oriented environment (Cloud SOA Web-Services) or virtualized environment.
• Understanding of network administration topics such as subnetting virtual private clouds firewalls and data flows
• Experience with AWS architectures and technologies
• Familiar with Amazon Web Services (S3 Buckets EC2 Reserved Instances etc.)
• Familiar with Git/GitLab or other source code control tools
• Familiar with System Engineering documentation creation (VDDs diagrams etc.)
• Familiar with team collaboration tools (Jira Confluence)
• Additional tasks as assigned

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience providing systems engineering support for geospatial products
• Citrix certification(s)
• Desktop Virtualization experience
• F5 Administration
• Active Directory Group Policy experience
• PowerShell development
• SAFe Agile Certification
• AWS certification (e.g. Solutions Architect Developer DevOps Engineer)

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