Senior Cloud Engineer – Virtual Desktop Infrastructure; VDI

Position: Senior Cloud Engineer – Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)
Job ID326094

Job Title:

Senior Cloud Engineer – Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)
Job Category:
Information Technology Time Type:
Full time Minimum Clearance Required to Start:
Secret Employee Type:
Regular Percentage of

Travel Required:

Up to 10%
Type of Travel:
Continental US*
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* The Opportunity:

CACI’s EITaaS Program is a Department of the Air Force initiative, which includes the Air Force and Space Force. EITaaS will transform the Dept. of the Air Force IT services from an in-house, base-centric delivery model to an advanced enterprise service delivery model. CACI will provide an enhanced IT management system, IT storefront, enterprise help desk, local field services, and life cycle support for end-user devices.

CACI’s innovative approach to enterprise technology infuses contemporary technologies with industry best practices to deliver commercial-style services that will improve customer experience and productivity for the Dept. of the Air Force’s global workforce. CACI and its partners will equip Airmen and Guardians with state-of-the-art services and automated capabilities that enable access to the tools they need to perform their mission efficiently and effectively when they need it, where they need it.

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About the Role:

CACI is seeking an experienced Cloud Engineer with profound knowledge and comprehensive understanding of native Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) functionality to drive our cloud-based desktop solutions.

As a subject matter expert, you will work with the team to understand requirements, priorities, and objectives to ensure work supports the larger capabilities and direction of the overall solution. This includes participation in planning, backlog refinement and prioritization, and retrospectives. You will participate in the full life cycle of activities including deployment and validation efforts to ensure product success and will follow all established processes and standards.

There will be opportunities to coach and lead the other AVD engineers on the team.

Flexibility and adaptability are ways of life here on the EITaaS team, so if you are comfortable breaking out of the mold and have a passion for learning new technologies, while applying your existing experience, then this position may be exactly what you are looking for.

Although this is a fast-paced environment, be assured you’d be joining a high-tech people-oriented team and overall community that’s just as flexible as we’re hoping you to be.

Responsibilities:

Responsible for architecting, planning, and implementing Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) technologies, specifically AVD, so end users have maximum functionality while maintaining application security.

Continuous reviewing of VDI infrastructure to maintain latest software and security patching.

Support continuous monitoring efforts to proactively resolve environmental issues.

Maintain documentation for the VDI environment, such as diagrams, detailed assessments, and design documents.

Identifies technical risks and mitigation strategies.

Initiates and develops methods to assess the end-to-end systems performance using operational measurements or other available test beds in order that end-to-end performance objectives are met.

Implement Azure scripts and workbooks to automate based AVD functionality

Manage and maintain the AVD Image; apply patches to the monthly images, roll out host pool updates with monthly image

Troubleshoot AVD Azure issues

Manage and monitor autoscaling of AVD resources to ensure sufficient virtual resources are available for DAF users (shutting down over provisioned resources and startup up new resources when insufficient resources are available)
Establish and track usage trend data for AVD consumption and tailor scripts and automation around peaks and dips in service usage

Monitor cost consumption for AVD and identify, recommend, and implement cost saving solutions as approved

This is a Senior Position within the Program and requires multiple years of relevant experience. It is expected that you: work with minimal supervision, are a self-starter and capable of defining and managing your individual tasks and have strong communication skills for…