Vailexa
Senior Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) Architect / L4 Support Engineer
Houston, Texas, United States · Senior
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About the role
- This role requires a combination of strategic architecture leadership and hands on technical expertise supporting complex enterprise deployments and twenty four by seven business critical services.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain Azure Virtual Desktop environments across development, testing, preproduction, production, high availability, and disaster recovery environments.
- Develop enterprise architecture, solution designs, deployment standards, and operational support documentation.
- Design scalable, secure, and resilient virtual desktop and published application environments.
- Lead production readiness reviews, disaster recovery planning, and recovery testing activities.
- Optimize host pools, scaling plans, FSLogix profiles, image management processes, and performance monitoring.
- Lead migration initiatives transitioning Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops environments to Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365.
- Assess existing Citrix workloads and develop detailed migration strategies.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to transition legacy virtualization platforms to modern cloud solutions.
- Design and implement Windows 365 Cloud PC solutions.
Requirements
- Required Experience
- Experience leading enterprise Citrix migration programs.
- Ten or more years of End User Computing, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, or Digital Workplace experience.
- Seven or more years designing and supporting enterprise virtual desktop environments.
- Five or more years implementing Azure Virtual Desktop solutions.
- Experience building and supporting production and disaster recovery environments.
- Experience developing architecture documentation, technical standards, operational runbooks, and support models.
- Experience working directly with project teams, vendors, managed service providers, and business stakeholders. Preferred Certifications
- Azure Solutions Architect Expert
- Azure Virtual Desktop Specialty
- Microsoft Certified Endpoint Administrator Associate
- Microsoft Certified Enterprise Administrator Expert
Nice to have
- Experience working directly with project teams, vendors, managed service providers, and business stakeholders.
- Preferred Certifications
Skills
- Azure and Cloud
- Azure Virtual Desktop
- Microsoft Azure
- Azure Networking
- Azure Identity Services
- Azure Landing Zones
- Azure Monitoring
- Azure Backup and Site Recovery Virtualization
- Windows 365 Cloud PC
- FSLogix
- Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops
- Citrix Cloud
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