Senior Citrix SRE (Technology Operations Specialist)

Senior Citrix SRE (Technology Operations Specialist)

The Technology Operations Specialist - ngVDI is accountable for delivering operational support of the Bank s ngVDI services. The primary accountability is focused on the regional level 3 support of deployment and operation of the Bank s instance of its production and UAT ngVDI environments and should be able to work in collaboration with the other Technology Operations Specialists to step in and cover during the absence of the Technology Operations Lead. This is an on-premises, Nutanix hosted, Citrix brokered environment support ~60K VDIs.

This role will require close collaboration and partnership with Monitoring & Stability (L2), Product Managers, Project Manager and Engineering.

The ideal candidate will have experience leading an engineering or operational support team as an L3 Windows Desktop Support or Windows Desktop Engineer and will have spent the last couple of years focused on Virtualization Technologies. They need a strong understanding of incident management, problem management, and other ITIL processes.

Your key responsibilities

Provide Level 3 (SRE) operational support for the Bank s VDI products and services

Support in the recruitment, provision and management of Level 2 and Level 3 global teams to support the Bank s ngVDI 24 x 7 follow-the-sun environment

Manage and run production environments that deliver the Bank s ngVDI products

Maintain and execute all DR activities in support of in scope products

Partner within Monitoring & Stability, Virtual, Mobility and the other EUC functions to enhance and advocate availability and resilience of End User products. This is both to underpin the Bank s delivery of core business applications and to support the Bank s ability to serve our clients and to create revenue

Apply a rigid SRE / DevOps framework to ongoing monitoring and automation of the products under support

Available for an on-call rota to cover incident management out of hours / weekend

Adheres to and promotes the Company values and ethical framework

Your skills and experience

A background in SRE or DevOps in Virtualisation technologies, ideally Citrix and Nutanix

Experience supporting large organizations in globally diverse locations

Knowledge and experience of supporting and administrating enterprise level Windows devices and configuration and management systems

At least three years experience scripting at an advanced level with PowerShell in automating solutions to virtual and Windows desktop environments

At least three years experience with setting up the monitoring of Windows desktop or virtual environments and implementing hands-free healing based on events with tools like: Systrack, New Relic and Citrix Analytics

At least two years experience setting up, configuring and implementing Virtualization products

At least two years experience managing and maintaining Citrix virtual tools like Citrix Director, Citrix DaaS and Citrix WEM/UPM

Experience with implementing or running synthetic testing in a virtual or desktop environment to eliminate manual or semi-automated health checks and post-change testing will be an advantage