Sr VDI Engineer- Citrix - 100% onsite - Local candidates only from Santa Clara, CA

The IT organization is looking for a Sr. IT engineer. You will be responsible for research, design, deploy, and maintain Email services, windows servers, AD, VDI, and email related services. Once service deployed, build standards and SOPs for IT daily support and Operation engineer to perform the best practice in support and operation. From time to time you may be rotate on-call shift to provide urgent support on holiday or off hour.

Responsibilities:

Expert in design of Citrix 7.x XenDesktop/XenApp infrastructure with migration experience in global scale
Expert in managing Citrix VDI hosting windows desktop and Linux desktop VDI workloads (RHEL preferred)
Expert in the design of NetScaler/Citrix ADC for XenDesktop/XenApp deployments
Expert in Citrix day-to-day management, patching, and troubleshooting
Experience supporting global VDI users
Provide Windows Systems Administration on Active Directory, Exchange, SharePoint, Microsoft Project, and other Microsoft application on-premises and on O365 Cloud.
Provide administrative support to collaborate platform such as Confluence and the sites maintenance
Enterprise servers patching management and software deployment
Diagnoses and resolves technical hardware and software issues where applicable
Migration experience of MS SharePoint in global scale
Provide technical assistance to the IT support engineer as an escalation resource
Build standard support procedures, Operation SOP, and provides troubleshooting guideline
Design and deploy the IT Microsoft infrastructure and services on Microsoft O365
Compares, evaluates, and implements new technologies, and integrates them into the computing environment
Lead and manage IT projects in global scale
Troubleshooting major mail flow issue with spam gateway such as Proofpoint or equvilant
Other duties as assigned

Requirements:
Experience with Infrastructure virtual environment, VDI, Citrix ADC Load balancer, Backup& Restore, disaster recovery and business continuity
Excellent knowledge of Windows Server 2016, 2019 Operating systems or above
Active Directory (AD) & Domain Controller Administration including DNS and GPO management in a multi-site environment
Building and administering Windows servers and accompanying infrastructure, maintaining capacity and performance in enterprise environment
Strong knowledge of Microsoft Products, such as Exchange, SharePoint, Project, SQL etc., on both on-prem and Microsoft O365
Manage/upgrade/migration experience to O365 Cloud
Strong knowledge of virtual environment, hypervisor, such as VMware Vcenter, hyperV, etc.
Automation scripting, such as Windows server PowerShell, MS Exchange Cmdlets
Understanding of NAS\SAN Storage, Replication, load balancing, and LAN\WAN Technologies
Work with vendors and perform upgrade/installation related activities, analysis and troubleshooting issues to provide resolution and execute on any new enhancement as required by business
Experience and knowledge administering workflows and issue schemes in Jira Software and Confluence
Experience and ability to work in a fast-paced IT environment with fluctuating priorities and deadlines
Minimum of 8+ years of Sr. IT Engineer or Sr. IT System Engineer experience
Bachelors degreee in Computer Science or equivalent experience
Must have strong written and verbal communication, organizational, detail-oriented, interpersonal and communication skills
Able to multi-task, work independently and as a member of a team, interface with other branches of the organization, work effectively with diverse constituencies, and solve problems and make decisions while under pressure and time constraints