Citrix VDI Engineer

Job Title: Citrix VDI Engineer

Location: Buffalo, NY

Work Model: Hybrid

No C2C, C2H, 1099, or Visa Sponsorship/Transfer available.

Nature & Scope:

Positional Overview

Our client is seeking a Citrix VDI Engineer to join their VDI team. This role will serve as a senior technical specialist and engineering leader responsible for the design, implementation, and long-term success of our client s Citrix DaaS environment hosted in Microsoft Azure. Join our client s dynamic team, where you'll play a key role in designing, implementing, and deploying applications. This is your chance to work with innovative technologies, collaborate with talented professionals, and contribute to the stability and security of critical banking operations. If you're passionate about problem-solving, automation, and enhancing system performance in a fast-paced environment, we want to hear from you!

Role & Responsibility:

Tasks That Will Lead to Your Success

• Serve as the senior technical specialist for Citrix and VDI technologies, providing architecture guidance, engineering leadership, and hands-on implementation
• Lead the design, deployment, migration, maintenance, and monitoring of the Citrix DaaS environment in Azure
• Evaluate the existing onprem and/or legacy VDI platforms and develop a clear migration and modernization strategy
• Partner closely with Technology management, senior engineers, and support teams to deliver solutions that meet current and future business needs
• Design infrastructure architectures that account for security, scalability, resiliency, performance, and regulatory requirements
• Coordinate vendor engagements with Citrix and related partners as needed
• Mentor and coach junior engineers; review and provide guidance on designs, changes, and implementations
• Architecting and delivering the future-state Citrix DaaS platform within the Azure tenant
• Driving innovation to support a modern, secure, cloud-first workforce
• Designing and implementing Citrix Cloud services, including:
  • Citrix DaaS
  • uberAgent
  • Citrix Device Trust and App Protection
• Application containerization, streaming, and optimization for virtual environments
• Developing automation to streamline provisioning, access, entitlements, and lifecycle management
• Designing and delivering platform health, performance, and experience metrics, leveraging APIs, Graph, and Power BI
• Serving as a subject matter expert for Citrix and VDI-related technologies across the organization

Skills & Experience

Qualifications That Will Help You Thrive

• Minimum of 8 years of combined education and professional experience in infrastructure engineering, systems design, or architecture
• Strong understanding of infrastructure and system lifecycle management, vendor best practices, and IT service management
• Demonstrated experience designing and supporting enterprise-scale virtual desktop or application delivery platforms

Education and Experience Preferred:

• Bachelor s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field
• Advanced experience with Citrix technologies, including DaaS and Citrix Cloud services
• Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure, including:
  • Virtual networking and hybrid connectivity
  • Identity and access integration
  • Security and monitoring
• Proven ability to translate complex business and technical requirements into well structured, high-quality solutions
• Experience working with vendors and integrating third-party solutions