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TENICA is hiring an Enterprise Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (EVDI) Engineer. TS/SCI with CI poly

Job Location: Chantilly, VA

Job Description

TENICA has an immediate opening for a thin client, Enterprise Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (EVDI) Engineer with a background in VMWare, Citrix, or similar large-scale virtualized desktop environments.  The successful candidate will leverage their background to oversee proposed future desktop architectures, and the optimization of cloud technology utilization.  The successful candidate will conduct independent cost, schedule, and performance trade analysis against a dedicated Client/Server Service Providers implementation approaches.  The successful applicant will participate within a team of Systems Engineers and Technical Advisors (SETAs) overseeing the design, delivery, enhancement, and recapitalization of a multi-site environment consisting of a variety of legacy and next-generation technologies/services.  Candidates will leverage their background in creating and implementing solutions to assess proposed approaches for solving organizational needs. 

Responsibilities

On the Job Training will be provided in the customers specific knowledge domain, but the successful candidate must be able to:

         Successfully work proactively/independently as well as within a team dynamic

         Understand and Represent the customers current implementation and configuration

         Clearly document and communicate current and future client/server initiatives

         Evaluate system functions (e.g., data storage and processing) to ensure performance is in accordance with expectations, policies and best practices

         Review, assess, and recommend performance tuning metrics for areas of improvement

         Collaborate with engineering and development teams to evaluate and identify optimal virtual/cloud solutions

         Educate various customers/groups on the approaches and implementations of new technologies and initiatives

         Proactively perform as a change agent focused on translating customer requirements into service provider tasking

         Perform technical assessments of a service providers proposed solutions to ensure they fulfill the customers requirements

         Track, document, and communicate observations associated with the service providers solution implementation from a cost, schedule, and performance oversight perspective

         Strategically assess the customers vision and needs to seek opportunities to influence and improve service delivery quality

         Assist the customer with evaluating service demand against available capacities in an effort to help prioritize expansion verses recapitalization investment

         Evaluate and recommend architecture and acquisition plans, service level terms, and perform business case analysis

         Support the integration of EVDI technologies with other IT domains, such as cloud computing, client/server implementations, Big Data analysis, Quality of Service management, IT resiliency, and Continuity of Operations

         Coordinate activities with IT portfolio managers, policy leads, resource managers, and program managers

         Ensure meeting coordination, scope clarity, policy compliance, and alignment with strategic objectives

         Capture, document, and present analysis process, findings, and project statuses to decision makers

Qualifications

Education:

         Bachelors in a STEM field of study and nine (9) years or more work experience; Masters and seven (7) years or more work experience; PhD or JD and four (4) years or more work experience;  Work experience of more than eleven  (11) years is sufficient without a degree

         PMP and/or Agile certification is a plus, but not required

         ITIL certification is a plus, but not required

Desired Experience:

         Five (5) or more years of experience with VMWare, Citrix XenDesktop, or similar thin client technologies

         Troubleshooting Layers 1-4 within the OSI 7-Layer stack

         Understanding of client/server storage, virtualization, and bandwidth requirements

         Two (2) or more years of experience with Project Management

         Excellent writing, organization, verbal communication, and presentation skills

Clearance Requirement:

         Must Possess and maintain a Top Secret /SCI with CI clearance