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Job Title: VDI Engineer

Job Location : Jersey City NJ

Contract Designation: On site 5 days a week in Jersey City, NJ

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 market-leading 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 hands-on 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 large-scale 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 computer, 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 on-premises 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 cloud-based 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.
• In-depth 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 less-experienced team members.
• Azure Cloud Certification (or AWS, Google, etc.)