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(Remote) Engineer
RSC Solutions
đşđ¸ United States
Remote
Senior
5 months ago
- Citrix
- Azure
- IaC
- Terraform
- Network Security
- Incident Response
- Microsoft Windows
- CI/CD
- PowerShell
- TCP/IP
- DNS
- DHCP
- Load Balancing
- Active Directory
- Risk Management
5 months ago
Overview
The Citrix Infrastructure Engineer is responsible for the technical ownership of key components of the organisation's global endâuser computing and application delivery platforms. The role provides deep subjectâmatter expertise and acts as a senior escalation point for complex or businessâcritical issues. The engineer leads and actively contributes to the delivery of global IT initiatives, including platform modernisation, cloud adoption, and automation. This includes defining technical standards, architecture patterns, operational processes, and documentation to ensure secure, stable, and scalable services. The role requires strong crossâteam and crossâregion collaboration, close engagement with Architecture and Security teams, and effective management of strategic vendor relationships. The Citrix Infrastructure Engineer is responsible for the implementation and lifecycle management of a largeâscale Citrix estate, including Citrix Cloudâmanaged services, hybrid cloud integrations, and associated application delivery technologies.
Responsibilities
- Technical ownership and operational support of the organisation's Citrix infrastructure across multiple global data center and cloud environments
- Design, deployment, and lifecycle management of Citrix Cloud services, including control plane operations and onâpremises / cloud resource locations
- Engineering and operational support of Citrix workloads hosted onâpremises and in public cloud platforms (e.g. Azure)
- Proactively monitor, maintain, and enhance the Citrix environment, ensuring alerts and events are triaged, investigated, and resolved effectively
- Evaluate emerging security threats and implement remediation strategies, including patching, configuration hardening, and architectural improvements
- Define and maintain global standards, build patterns, and operational runbooks for Citrix platforms
- Develop and maintain highâquality technical documentation that accurately reflects the asâbuilt and asâoperated environments
- Integrate automation and InfrastructureâasâCode (IaC) practices into platform provisioning, configuration, and lifecycle management
- Design and maintain Terraform modules for repeatable, versionâcontrolled deployment of Citrixârelated infrastructure and supporting components
- Collaborate closely with Architecture, Cloud, Network, Security, and Endpoint teams to deliver cohesive endâuser platforms
- Act as a senior escalation point for complex incidents, including participation in outâofâhours support and major incident response when required
- Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior engineers, promoting engineering best practices and continuous improvement
- Engage with thirdâparty vendors and partners to evaluate, design, and deliver tactical and strategic platform enhancements
- Manage platform hardware, software, and cloud service lifecycles, ensuring compliance with endâofâlife and endâofâsupport timelines
- Maintain and continuously develop technical expertise relevant to the role
- Qualifications & Experience
- Strong, demonstrable experience designing, implementing, and supporting enterpriseâscale Citrix environments, including:
- Citrix Cloud
- Delivery Controllers
- Virtual Delivery Agents (VDA / CVAD)
- Provisioning Services (PVS)
- Citrix Director
- Citrix Client (NetScaler)
- Handsâon experience operating Citrix Cloud control plane with onâpremises and/or public cloud resource locations
- Advanced troubleshooting and performance optimisation skills across Citrix and Microsoft Windows Server platforms
- Proven experience using Terraform to provision and manage infrastructure in a controlled, repeatable manner
- Practical knowledge of InfrastructureâasâCode concepts including version control, modular design, state management, and CI/CD integration
- Strong PowerShell scripting and automation experience; exposure to orchestration frameworks is advantageous
- Good working knowledge of networking concepts and protocols (TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP), load balancing, firewalls, and secure network design
- Experience integrating Citrix platforms with enterprise identity and security services (e.g. Active Directory, Entra ID, MFA)
- Working knowledge of application packaging and application delivery technologies (MSI, AppâV, etc.)
- Experience delivering projects within financial services or other highly regulated environments
- Comfortable operating within mature change control, audit, and risk management frameworks
- Knowledge
- Deep understanding of distributed, highly available, and virtualised endâuser computing platforms
- Strong knowledge of modern Citrix architecture, including cloudâmanaged and hybrid deployments
- Solid understanding of cloud infrastructure concepts and sharedâresponsibility models
- Broad infrastructure knowledge spanning compute, storage, networking, identity, and security
(Remote) Engineer ¡ RSC Solutions