[Hiring] Senior Azure Virtual Desktop Engineer @AIS (Applied Information Sciences)

Role Description

At AIS, we are seeking a talented individual to join as a Lead Infrastructure Engineer. This role involves:

• Aligning infrastructure strategy to business goals.
• Leading large projects and applying compliance frameworks.
• Designing high availability/disaster recovery and performance optimization patterns.
• Shaping deployment pipeline design.

Your initial project assignment will be as a Senior Azure Virtual Desktop Engineer, focusing on:

• Designing, building, and optimizing secure Azure Virtual Desktop environments.
• Providing a dependable user experience for Codex-enabled development.
• Modernizing virtual desktop solutions for a federal customer.

Key Responsibilities

• Engineer AVD host pools, session hosts, images, scaling plans, application delivery, and user profiles.
• Create secure desktop patterns for Codex access, including network segmentation, firewall rules, and browser controls.
• Implement and support FSLogix, Entra ID, Intune, profile storage, image lifecycle, and monitoring integrations.
• Plan and execute Citrix transition activities, performance validation, capacity planning, and user acceptance testing.
• Troubleshoot performance, sign-in, profile, application, network, and graphics issues across the AVD stack.
• Produce deployment standards, operational runbooks, and technical knowledge transfer for steady-state support.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of endpoint, virtual desktop, or Windows infrastructure engineering experience.
• Hands-on AVD design and implementation experience with pooled and personal desktop patterns.
• Strong knowledge of FSLogix, Windows 11, Entra ID, Intune, Azure networking, and profile-storage design.
• Experience with image engineering, application packaging, performance tuning, and monitoring.
• Ability to work independently in a secure, highly controlled enterprise environment.

Requirements

• Citrix migration experience (nice to have).
• Experience with IGEL, thin-client, GPU-enabled desktop, or Azure NetApp Files (nice to have).
• Azure Virtual Desktop Specialty certification (nice to have).

Benefits

• Competitive and fair compensation reflecting skills, experience, and contributions.
• Targeted base salary range of $121,000-$182,000 per year.
• Transparency in the hiring process regarding compensation structure.