Citrix Engineer

Harvey Nash is looking for a Citrix Engineer for a 12 month project in Switzerland.

You are responsible for:

* Supporting NX in maintaining a highly available Citrix XenDesktop environment

* Supporting NX in resolving environmental issues reported by Citrix users (tier 3 support)

* Working closely with the NX Client technologies team to integrate operating system images into VDIs

* Working to ensure that the Citrix environment is patched according to Citrix recommendations

* Working to ensure that the Citrix environment is monitored to ensure business continuity

* Aligning closely with colleagues in order to deliver the best possible Citrix service to the business

* Working to automate existing manual processes where possible eg. auto VDI creation/assignment triggered by request form/approval

* Maintaining a good knowledge of the latest virtual desktop and virtualized application industry trends

Requirements

* At least 5 years' experience in administering enterprise scale Citrix environments

* Citrix XenApp 6.5, XenDesktop 5.6 and XenDesktop 7.9 environments (XenDesktop 7.15 knowledge desirable)

* Architecting and implementing global Citrix environments

* Experience with upgrading enterprise Citrix environments

* Excellent knowledge of the physical and logical architectures associated with enterprise level Citrix installations

* Managed virtual machine issues on VMWare ESX 6.5

* Managed machines on PVS 7.9

* Excellent PowerShell Scripting skills (PowerCLI skills desirable)

* Should be able to support Windows 7 and Windows 10 based VDI issues

* Ability to develop and promote new ideas and solutions within the technology stack

* Ability to work effectively in cross-functional and global teams

* Demonstrated productivity in complex organizations

* Linux VDI (on Citrix), GPU accelerated VDI, DaaS (AWS, Citrix Cloud) is a Nice-to-have

* Excellent communication skills (English)

Are you available immediately, have experience working within a Life Science company?

Please send your complete CV (Word documents preferred). For further details feel free to call me. I am looking forward to receiving your application.