AVD engineer Terraform

AVD Engineer with Terraform – 6 month contract initially.

Location:

Hybrid – max 2‑3 days per week onsite in Wokingham. Rate: £425–£475 per day (via Umbrella company).

We have a great opportunity with a world‑leading organisation where you will be provided with all of the support and development to succeed. A progressive organisation where you can really make a difference.

An Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) Engineer with Terraform expertise designs, automates, and manages secure VDI environments using Infrastructure as Code (IaC). The role includes deploying host pools, configuring FSLogix profiles, and automating Azure networking/storage via Terraform scripts within CI/CD pipelines to ensure scalability and compliance.

• Good knowledge and hands‑on experience in Terraform.
• Hands‑on experience with Terraform, including writing custom modules, managing state files (remote backend), and Terraform Cloud/Enterprise.
• Strong hands‑on experience installing and configuring Azure Virtual Desktop including host pools, AVD images, and scaling.
• Good hands‑on experience Azure infrastructure as a service and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
• Strong knowledge and understanding of Azure Virtual Desktop solution.
• Capacity planning, in coordination with AVD Architecture & Engineering.
• Strong hands‑on experience on Azure Virtual Desktop Operational Support.
• Analyse system performance indicators and recommend improvement actions for Azure AVD‑based production configuration.
• Knowledge of Azure AVD publishing applications, web server load balancing, Resource Manager, and License Management.
• Manage and deploy updates via Azure Update Manager.
• Update the AVD image based on business requirements provided by the client, including monthly security patches, updates required to support a client enterprise release and version upgrades of software that has been ope rationalised.
• Creating, updating, and responding to monitors of the AVD environment.
• Service restoration activities not requiring privileged access (incident management, system troubleshooting, performing elevating access activities, escalating actions requiring privileged access to client team members).
• Very good hands‑on experience on Group Policy management.
• Good understanding of cloud licence management.
• Very good hands‑on experience with cloud concepts:
  Azure Virtualisation, Azure Networking, Azure Identity and Azure Storage.
• Manage and maintain identity, security, compliance, and protected user devices.
• Printing on Azure Virtual Desktop using Universal Print.
• Good hands‑on experience on User profile management product, roaming profile, FSLogix and One Drive.
• Good hands‑on experience in automating upgradation/migration, remediation, jobs, report tasks by using Power Shell, CLI scripts and batch scripts.
• Create all necessary documentation including system standards, run books, and other research.
• Should be aware of an App Layering solution like Flex App/MSIX App attach etc.

This is an excellent opportunity on a great project of work. If you are looking for your next exciting opportunity, apply now and send your CV directly; we will respond as soon as possible.

LA International welcome applications from all sections of the community and from people with diverse experience and backgrounds.