IT Applications Engineer V, Integration - VMware Horizon VDI Suite

Job Summary:

The Principal VDI Engineer operates as a senior design architect and hands-on leader, comprehensively managing an organization's VMware Horizon environment with a strong emphasis on hybrid cloud integration. This involves expertly designing, deploying, optimizing, and securing complex VDI solutions that seamlessly span on-premises data centers and public cloud platforms, ensuring consistent high performance and user experience regardless of location. A portion of the role is dedicated to advanced troubleshooting of intricate VDI and infrastructure issues, leveraging deep knowledge of networking, storage, and security. Furthermore, they are pivotal in driving efficiency through extensive automation and scripting, leading strategic planning and capacity management for future growth, and providing crucial technical mentorship and guidance to junior engineers, all while maintaining clear and effective communication with various IT teams and stakeholders.

The Principal VDI Engineer is a senior-level expert responsible for the holistic lifecycle management of the organization's VMware Horizon Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, with a critical focus on hybrid cloud environments. This includes architecting scalable and resilient VDI solutions that seamlessly span on-premises data centers and public cloud platforms (e.g., VMware Cloud on AWS, Azure VMware Solution, Windows 365), leading their implementation and optimization, and ensuring high performance and security across these disparate locations. They are also critical in troubleshooting complex issues that arise from the intricate interplay of on-prem and cloud components, leveraging advanced automation and scripting to streamline operations and ensure consistent user experiences regardless of where their desktops or applications reside. Furthermore, this role entails providing technical leadership and mentorship to other engineers, guiding the strategic evolution of the VDI footprint, and navigating the complexities of hybrid cloud networking, identity, and data management to drive continuous improvement and innovation within the virtual desktop environment.

In addition to the responsibilities listed below, this position is responsible for designing and building middleware solutions. Some of the unique challenges this position will face include designing solutions across heterogeneous environments and understanding and communicating about the different layers of technology involved.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Conducts or oversees business-specific projects by applying deep expertise in subject area; promoting adherence to all procedures and policies; developing work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines; determining and carrying out processes and methodologies; coordinating and delegating resources to accomplish organizational goals; partnering internally and externally to make effective business decisions; solving complex problems; escalating issues or risks, as appropriate; monitoring progress and results; recognizing and capitalizing on improvement opportunities; evaluating recommendations made; and influencing the completion of project tasks by others.
• Practices self-leadership and promotes learning in others by building relationships with cross-functional stakeholders; communicating information and providing advice to drive projects forward; influencing team members within assigned unit; listening and responding to, seeking, and addressing performance feedback; adapting to competing demands and new responsibilities; providing feedback to others, including upward feedback to leadership and mentoring junior team members; creating and executing plans to capitalize on strengths and improve opportunity areas; and adapting to and learning from change, difficulties, and feedback.
• As part of the IT Engineering job family, this position is responsible for leveraging DEVOPS, and both Waterfall and Agile practices, to design, develop, and deliver resilient, secure, multi-channel, high-volume, high-transaction, on/off-premise, cloud-based solutions.
• Provides insight into recommendations for technical solutions that meet design and functional needs.
• Translates business requirements and functional specifications into physical program designs, code modules, stable application systems, and software solutions by partnering with Business Analysts and other team members to understand business needs and functional specifications.
• Ensures appropriate translation of business requirements and functional specifications into physical program designs, code modules, stable application systems, and software solutions by partnering with Business Analysts and other team members to understand business needs and functional specifications.
• Serves as an expert for innovative technical solutions that meet design and functional needs.
• Facilitates and serves as a technical expert for project teams throughout the release schedule of business and enterprise software solutions.
• Builds and maintains trusting relationships with internal customers, third party vendors, and senior management to ensure the alignment, buy-in, and support of diverse project stakeholders.
• Recommends complex technical solutions that meet design and functional needs.
• Collaborates with architects and/or software consultants to ensure functional specifications are converted into flexible, scalable, and maintainable solution designs.
• Provides expertise and guidance to team members for systems incident responses for complex issues.
• Provides implementation and post-implementation triage and support of business software solutions by programming and/or configuring enhancements to new or packaged-based systems and applications.
• Reviews and validates technical specifications and documentation.
• Identifies specific interfaces, methods, parameters, procedures, and functions to support technical solutions while incorporating architectural designs.
• Supports component integration testing (CIT) and user acceptance testing (UAT) for application initiatives by providing triage, attending test team meetings, keeping the QC up-to-date, performing fixes and unit testing, providing insight to testing teams in order to ensure the appropriate depth of test coverage, and supporting the development of proper documentation.
• Leads systems incident support and troubleshooting for complex and non-complex issues.
• Identifies specific interfaces, methods, parameters, procedures, and functions, as required, to support technical solutions serving as an escalation point for complex or unresolved issues related to requirements translation.
• Develops and validates complex testing scenarios to identify application errors and ensure software solutions meet functional specifications.
• Participates in all software development lifecycle phases by applying comprehensive understanding of company methodology, policies, standards, and internal and external controls.
• Develops, configures, or modifies basic to moderately complex integrated business and/or enterprise application solutions within various computing environments by designing and coding component-based applications using programming languages.
• Provides consultation to help ensure new and existing software solutions are developed with insight into industry best practices, strategies, and architectures.
• Builds partnerships with IT teams and vendors to ensure written code adheres to company architectural standards, design patterns, and technical specifications.
• Leads the development, validation, and execution of testing scenarios to identify application errors and ensure software solutions meet functional specifications.
• Leads, mentors, and trains other technical resources to develop software applications.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Minimum three (3) years experience in middleware development and integration.
• Minimum five (5) years experience working on project(s) involving the implementation of solutions applying development life cycles (e.g., SDLC).
• Minimum two (2) years in a technical leadership role with or without direct reports.
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, CIS, or related field and Minimum eight (8) years experience in software development or a related field. Additional equivalent work experience may be substituted for the degree requirement.

Additional Requirements:

Preferred Qualifications:

• Three (3) years of development experience with WebSphere Transformer Extender
• Three (3) years of development experience with Windows
• Deep Expertise in VMware Horizon VDI Suite and Related Technologies
• Advanced Infrastructure Knowledge (Networking, Storage, Security) for VD
• Automation, Scripting, and Orchestration Expertise
• Architectural Design, Strategic Planning, and Capacity Management
• Strong Leadership, Mentorship, and Communication Skills

Primary Location: Colorado,Greenwood Village,Greenwood Plaza IT
Additional Locations:

Pleasanton Tech Cntr Building A, 4460 Hacienda Dr. Bldg. A, Pleasanton,California, 94588
East Annex - Parsons, 75 N. Fair Oaks Ave., Pasadena,California, 91103
6000 Meadows 6000 SW Meadows Rd., 6000 SW Meadows Rd., Lake Oswego,Oregon, 97035
Pershing Point Plaza IT, 1375 Peachtree St. NE, Atlanta,Georgia, 30309
New Carrollton Administration, 4000 Garden City Dr., Hyattsville,Maryland, 20785
Renton Administration - Adams, 2921 Naches Ave. SW, Renton,Washington, 98057
Hawaii Remote Workers Location, 415 S Beretania St, Honolulu,Hawaii, 96813
Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40
Shift: Day
Workdays: Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri
Working Hours Start: 08:00 AM
Working Hours End: 05:00 PM
Job Schedule: Full-time
Job Type: Standard
Worker Location: Flexible
Employee Status: Regular
Employee Group/Union Affiliation: NUE-IT-01|NUE|Non Union Employee
Job Level: Individual Contributor
Department: KPIT ADMIN - CTO CES ENDPOINT ENG - 9601
Pay Range: $138700 - $179410 / year Kaiser Permanente is committed to pay equity and transparency. The posted pay range is based on possible base salaries for the role and does not include the value of our total rewards package. Actual pay determined at offer will be based on years of relevant work experience, education, certifications, skills and geographic location along with a review of current employees in similar roles to ensure that pay equity is achieved and maintained across Kaiser Permanente.
Travel: Yes, 10 % of the Time Kaiser Permanente is an equal opportunity employer committed to fair, respectful, and inclusive workplaces. Applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic or status.