Job Description
Senior Citrix Engineer Role Overview
Senior Citrix Engineer with extensive hands-on experience designing, building, and deploying large Citrix environments. Must be able to lead delivery end-to-end, from architecture through implementation, and perform advanced troubleshooting across Citrix, Windows, Active Directory, networking, automation, and VMware layers.
Must-Have Experience
- Extensive enterprise Citrix engineering experience supporting large-scale environments.
- Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops (CVAD) on-prem: design, build, upgrades, and HA patterns.
- Citrix DaaS (Citrix Cloud): fundamentals, hybrid deployments, and identity integration familiarity.
- Proven experience migrating users/workloads from one CVAD Site to another (pilot, waves, rollback).
- Provisioning expertise: PVS (RDSH) and MCS (persistent VDI) design and troubleshooting.
- Windows image engineering for Server 2016/2019/2022 (gold image lifecycle and promotion).
- StoreFront: stores, authentication, beacons, and Workspace app configuration.
- Profiles/user state: Citrix Profile Management (UPM) and FSLogix containers; file share permissions; logon troubleshooting.
- Group Policy (GPO): loopback, filtering, performance tuning, and security hardening baselines.
- Active Directory/IAM: OU design, delegation, least-privilege access management; multi-domain/multi-forest/trust impacts (DNS/Kerberos).
- VMware vSphere/vCenter: templates/cloning, provisioning support, and performance troubleshooting.
- Entra ID (Azure AD) SSO: understanding of enterprise SSO concepts and EUC/Citrix integration patterns.
- Strong knowledge and working experience with Citrix PVS and MCS Images with hands-on experience with reversing Images for VMWare Tools upgrade, OS upgrades and other tasks that require reverse Imaging.
Soft Skills and Working Style
- Able to respond effectively and resolve issues during incidents and cutovers.
- Strong system-level troubleshooting and RCA skills across Citrix/Windows/AD/DNS/network/VMware.
- Research-driven: able to validate solutions using vendor documentation and controlled testing.
- Collaborative and adaptable; works effectively with Network, Security, AD/IAM, VM ware, and app teams.
- Clear communicator with strong documentation habits (runbooks, standards, handover materials).
Salary Range- $85,000-$100,000 a year #LI-SP3 #LI-VX1
Location
Dallas, TX
Function
TECHNOLOGY
Role
Engineer
ID
437647
Skills
Citrix
Salary Range
$85,000 - $100,000
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