VDI Stack Operations Specialist - (Midrand / Pretoria Menlyn / Pretoria Rosslyn and home office) at Mediro Recruitment

Summary

• Our client, a global leader in the engineering industry is looking for a VDI Stack Operations Specialist to join their dynamic team.
• Contract position up to end of September 2026 with the possibility for renewal.
• Location:  Pretoria Rosslyn / Menlyn / Midrand and home office on a rotational basis.

Description

• You will be part of a team responsible for the development and operation of the Digital Workspace that includes the product Virtual Device (VDI). The focus lies on worldwide delivery (Cloud & On Premises) of the virtual desktop, App and access infrastructure for internal and external partners. 
• This product, as part of the Digital Workspace, offers a complex platform which allows the scaling of high-performance virtual desktops and apps. 
• You will be involved in the maintenance and operation of a global Digital Workspace infrastructure for virtual devices.
• Be a maintenance and operations focused team member for their cloud and on premises VDI platforms.
• Make sure that the infrastructure for VDI platforms run smoothly.
• Actively work on constantly improving operational excellence including automation and proactive monitoring approaches.
• Collaborate with an international product team, external providers, vendors and end-users.
• Work closely with stakeholders, development teams in constantly improving VDI platforms stability and availability.
• Work with other IT teams on integration of new features and components.

Main function:

• Be responsible for the operations and standardization of the enterprise VDI infrastructure, platform, and desktop components.
• Be responsible for the verification, planning and actioning of maintenance tasks together with other infrastructure teams.
• Continuously work on improving the operational stability.
• Work on automation of platform operations, troubleshooting and maintenance topics.
• Install, configure, maintain, and deploy virtual Apps and desktop images.
• Installation, Configuration, and maintenance of RDSH servers, e.g., Windows Server, Windows Multisession.
• Installation, Configuration, and maintenance of Published Application presentation layer (e.g., XenApp & Citrix Workspace).
• Application and Server hardening (e.g., Ivanti).
• Worked with Application Monitoring tools.

Minimum Requirements

• Experience in operation of Windows Servers (higher then 2016).
• Experience in Windows Client (Windows 10) OS troubleshooting and patch management.
• Experience with Active Directory and GPO.
• Experience with Scripting (PowerShell, Python etc.)
• Experience Citrix Xen-Desktop (higher then 7.x) and Xen-App (higher then 7.x) full stack.
• Experience Citrix Netscaler (higher then 12.x) and Storefront.
• Experience Citrix XenServer (higher then 7.x).
• Citrix Certified Professional – Networking (CCA-N, CCP-N CCE-N).
• Experience Citrix on VMware Hypervisor Stack (higher VMWare ESXi 6.x).
• Experience with multi-factor and authentication technologies.
• Experience in network infrastructure design and implementation.
• Experience in troubleshooting infrastructure, network, and integration issues.
• Experience with ITL processes (Incident, Change and Problem management).
• At least 3 years relevant experience.

Experience:Between 3 - 5 Years

Closing Date:2023-08-20