Job Requirements
Top Secret/SCI Polygraph Unspecified
Career Level not specified
$125,000 - $160,000
Job Description
Citrix Software Virtualization Engineer
Location: Springfield, VA/St. Louis, MO
Clearance: Active TS/SCI
$125,000-$160,000
Marathon TS is seeking a Citrix Software Virtualization Engineer to support an intelligence community customer in Springfield, VA or St. Louis, MO. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience supporting enterprise virtualization environments, maintaining and optimizing Citrix infrastructure, and ensuring the security, reliability, and performance of mission-critical systems. This position requires an active TS/SCI clearance and offers the opportunity to support critical IT infrastructure within a highly secure environment.
Responsibilities:
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Marathon TS is committed to the development of a creative, diverse and inclusive work environment. In order to provide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all individuals, employment decisions at Marathon TS will be based on merit, qualifications, and abilities. Marathon TS does not discriminate against any person because of race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, disability, age or any other characteristic protected by law (referred to as "protected status ").
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Location: Springfield, VA/St. Louis, MO
Clearance: Active TS/SCI
$125,000-$160,000
Marathon TS is seeking a Citrix Software Virtualization Engineer to support an intelligence community customer in Springfield, VA or St. Louis, MO. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience supporting enterprise virtualization environments, maintaining and optimizing Citrix infrastructure, and ensuring the security, reliability, and performance of mission-critical systems. This position requires an active TS/SCI clearance and offers the opportunity to support critical IT infrastructure within a highly secure environment.
Responsibilities:
- Development of Virtualized Packages for Mission Baseline Applications
- Applications will be consumed both by VDI sessions and thick clients
- Applications include those with plugins and advanced graphics requirements
- Work with application testers and mission SME's to validate mission application behavior
- Incorporate any required sequencing changes into the app sequencing process
- Identify facets of user application settings (registry, AppData, etc.) that need to be persisted across sessions in a non-persistent VDI environment
- Identify automation opportunities for application sequencing and work with the engineering team to streamline the sequencing process for mission applications, once established
- Assist the virtualization team and VDI team with application delivery infrastructure configuration, as needed
- Improve backup/Disaster Recovery and Continuity of Operations.
- Articulating knowledge, discoveries, designs, etc. rapidly and concisely in written detailed designs, test plans and test cases, implementation plans, operational guides, and training guides under project management time and cost-constrained deadlines.
- Performing work without appreciable direction and exercising considerable latitude in the determination of technical objectives of assignments.
- Working with VMware software defined data center products and tools for troubleshooting and performance tuning.
- Analyze, test, and apply regular security patches and software update as required
- In-depth and up-to-date knowledge of Virtualization products and capabilities
- Ability to analyze and apply virtualization product capabilities to changing program requirements
- Good work ethic and active desire to learn.
- Skillful time management and organizational skills to set and meet deadlines.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Create and maintain technical documentation and provide training to other team members
- Incident resolution and fulfillment of software requests
- Performs all other work as assigned.
- Bachelor's Degree and 5+ years of experience with Systems Administration/Virtualization. (Additional Education, Training, Certifications or Work Experience can be substituted in lieu of degree or work experience)
- A degree may be substituted with additional years of experience
- 8140.01M IAT Level II certification
- 3+ years of experience with VDI technologies, including VMware Horizon, Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops, or Microsoft Remote Desktop Services.
- 2+ years of experience with Citrix XenApp or comparable application virtualization technology (Microsoft App-V, FlexApp, App Volumes, etc)
- Experience with Windows Desktop (10/11) and Server (2012+) Operating Systems
- Utilize scripting and automation tools (e.g., PowerShell) to automate tasks and manage deployments.
- Experience with non-persistent desktop environments
- Experience with profile management solutions such as VMware DEM or Liquidware Labs' Profile-Unity
- Familiarity with ActiveDirectory, specifically Group Policy
- Understanding of load-balancing application delivery services
- Understand principles of ITIL
- Able to create architectural design documents and presentations
- Able to test and apply hardware and software updates
- Understand architectural frameworks such as TOGAF
- Virtualization compute environment certification, i.e. VMware Certified Associate for Data Center Virtualization (VCA-DCV)
- Familiarity with ticketing systems (Service+, ServiceNow, Remedy, etc)
US CITIZENSHIP REQUIRED
Marathon TS is committed to the development of a creative, diverse and inclusive work environment. In order to provide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all individuals, employment decisions at Marathon TS will be based on merit, qualifications, and abilities. Marathon TS does not discriminate against any person because of race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, disability, age or any other characteristic protected by law (referred to as "protected status ").
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