**Why Kyndryl**
**Your Role and Responsibilities**
What We're Looking For
You love solving problems and enjoy learning new technologies.
You have 2+ years supporting end users, as well as, providing CITRIX / AVD Support.
You have developed a strong practical understanding of VDI Infrastructure layers and Citrix
Core Responsibilities:
- Troubleshoot and resolve VDI/Citrix issues by providing tier 2/3 incident ticket support
- Perform daily VDI /CITRIX administration, maintenance and upgrades including service packs, patches, hot fixes, and security configurations
- Develop plans for deploying and administering virtual machines, images, and virtual apps
- Monitor performance and ensure system availability and reliability
- Utilize Azure Site Recovery for disaster recovery failover
- Participate in after-hours on-call support rotation
- Advanced troubleshooting skills and identify the severity of the issue, Ability to Resolving issues quickly to account/customer satisfaction and Prepare RCA, ITIL knowledge.
- Serve as a technical resource for infrastructure initiatives that require virtual machine and VDI expertise
- Provision the required RBAC roles in Azure AD.
- Configure apps and desktops host pools for users
- Collaborate with operational counterparts to support and discover opportunities for improvement via automation, process improvements, etc
- Achieves and adheres to established Service Level Agreements and Key Performance Indicators
- Ensure the work performed meets the quality standards within acceptable time schedules and customer commitments
**Required Technical and Professional Expertise**
- 2+ years of strong experience doing real-world work as a VDI Engineer
- Azure Cloud experience
- Experience configuring/managing Azure IaaS & PaaS technologies such as Subscriptions, Storage Containers, VNET, NSG's, Storage Explorer & Cost/Billing management.
- Good understanding of network connectivity to Azure ExpressRoute
- Experience with on-prem to cloud VDI replication and DR strategies - Azure Site Recovery, etc
- Experience with Azure Active Directory - Group Policy Design & Architecture
- Hands on experience with performance monitoring and alerting for cloud workload instances
- Extensive experience with automation leveraging Azure CLI, PowerShell, to automate and simplify tasks
- Possess a detailed understanding of architectural dependencies of a VDI environment
- Must be hands on Microsoft Technologies (Intune Auto pilot, SCCM, ATP Defender, SCCM, WVD, Windows 10)
- Experience with Citrix technologies, configuring and managing complex Citrix environments containing XenApp, XenDesktop, NetScaler, Storefront, Firewalls, and other supporting technologies
- Advanced Knowledge and work Experience on Citrix Provisioning Server
- Updating and Maintaining Golden Images/Templates.
- Managing Provisioning services - Site Services with High Availability; vDisk Management; Write-Cache Location Management; Device Collections
- Basic Knowledge and work Experience on Citrix Netscaler
- Virtual Switch Configurations
**Preferred Technical and Professional Experience**
Excellent understanding on at least 4 areas amongst the below:
- Windows Virtual Desktops
- Azure
- Azure active Directory / Active Directory
- Intune & Autopilot
- Software Distribution / Lifecycle management tools like SCCM
- Desktop Virtualization
- Application Packaging & Imaging
- Scripting / Powershell
Certifications: MCSE/MCSA, Microsoft 365 Certified, Azure Certified, Citrix
**Required Education**
High School Diploma/GED
**Preferred Education**
None
Kyndryl is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, age, veteran status, or other characteristics.
Kyndryl is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.
**Other things to know**
**Primary Job Category**
Technical Specialist
**Role (Job Role)**
Infrastructure Specialist
**Employment Type**
Full-Time
**Contract Type**
Regular
**Position Type**
Early Professional
**Travel Required**
No Travel
**Company**
(Y014) Kyndryl Costa Rica, Sociedad de Responsabilidad Limitada
**Is this role a commissionable / sales incentive based position**
No