What are the responsibilities and job description for the Citrix Engineer position at NexGen Data Systems?
NexGen Data Systems is seeking an experienced Citrix Engineer to join our team. Primary responsibilities involve the assessment of the current environment, development, and delivery of technical recommendations for short- and long-term solutions to align with organization goals and resolve technical restraints. The successful candidate will support a team that executes all monitoring, maintaining, operating, and troubleshooting daily of remote access technologies with an emphasis on all Citrix Technologies including Netscalers, Storefront Servers, Delivery Controllers, Provisioning Servers, Machine Creation Services and VDI Desktops. Must have a clear understanding of Windows Active Directory and a Multi-Farm Citrix Environment. Should understand and manage performance metrics and the ability to troubleshoot and rectify issues that occur within the Citrix environment. Must possess the knowledge to install, integrate and troubleshoot applications delivered via the Citrix environment deployment technologies. The engineer should have knowledge of both native Citrix Tools and consoles to manage and troubleshoot the Citrix environment. Provide supporting documentation and develop standards for personnel to follow. Certifications such as CCP-V, CCE-V, MCSA, and MCSE are desired, but not required. The candidate will join a team of Architects, Engineers, and Operators and work in a collaborative multi-functional team environment supporting multiple mission-critical data center sites.
Roles and Responsibilities :
- Assessment of a Multiple Farm Citrix environment system and other related technologies.
- Develop technical recommendation based on assessment to align with organization goals.
- Support and preserve the Virtual Desktop setup of the institution, which includes, NetScaler (ADC) XenDesktop (PVS or MCS), XenApp, along with backend support.
- Generate and provide reports, training documentation, along with standards and guidance.
- Design, evaluate, test and implement and maintain platform security, within customer standards.
- Upgrade the system's applications, installing it with up-to-date descriptions.
- Execution of strengthening apps, the Windows server, and the principal operating system.
- Provide technical assistance for all the servers, desktops, and services that apply business.
- Apply, implement, maintain, and examine the documentation of the Virtual Desktop Infrastructure.
- Execute helpdesk calls and classify cases according to their priorities and accelerations.
- Ensure the integrity and availability of applications and coordinate off-hour upgrades and / or maintenance on the Citrix server
- Identify and apply environment best practices
- Explore and leverage technologies to improve the environment
- Support break / fix production activities
- Participate in designs for new hosted applications
- Assist in internal customer support for infrastructure and business-facing IT teams
- Collaborate with additional teams and associates with processes and documentation
Other Duties : Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
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About the Company :
NexGen Data Systems is an emerging technologies focused company providing expert systems and network engineering solutions to the Department of Defense. NexGen Data Systems promotes a culture of knowledge and career advancement through continued learning, keeping our team current on the latest advances in systems and networking, and enabling our team to provide the best available solutions to our clients.
Benefits :
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.
NOTE : US Citizens and those authorized to work in the US are encouraged to apply. In order to be qualified for this position, you must be able to obtain and maintain a United States Department of Defense (DoD) security clearance. We are unable to sponsor Visas at this time. NexGen Data Systems provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.
