Type of Requisition:
Regular
Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:
Secret
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:
Secret
Public Trust/Other Required:
None
Job Family:
IT Infrastructure and Operations
Job Qualifications:
Skills:
Disaster Recovery (DR), Virtual Desktop, VMware Certifications:
None Experience:
5 + years of related experience US Citizenship Required:
Yes
Job Description:
VDI Engineer
Advance how our customers operate while you advance your career. Join GDIT as a VDI Engineer and build an impactful career in enterprise IT, collaborating with people who are driven and resourceful like you.
MEANINGFUL WORK AND PERSONAL IMPACT
As a VDI Engineer, the work you’ll do at GDIT will be impactful to the mission of NATO SOFCOM. You will play a crucial role in providing resilient VMware Horizon virtual desktop services, administering Dynamic Environment Manager (DEM) for consistent user experience, improving platform observability and site reliability, and planning/testing VDI support for the upcoming SOFCOM continuity-of-operations (COOP) site.
Maintain approved VMware Horizon control-plane and desktop-pool configurations, entitlements and profile-management integrations.
Support golden image engineering, pool refresh/recomposition, authorized patching, testing and delivery of virtual desktop services.
Troubleshoot brokers, gateways, sessions, authentication, performance, display protocols and virtual endpoint access.
Coordinate ESXi/vCenter, storage, networking, identity and MECM dependencies with the responsible technical engineers.
Support approved maintenance, capacity monitoring, high availability checks and VDI recovery exercises.
Document pool configurations, virtual endpoint inventories, user experience issues and approved changes.
Administer and troubleshoot approved VMware Dynamic Environment Manager (DEM) capabilities, including user environment settings, profile personalization, conditional policies, application configuration, user settings capture/restore and integration with Horizon desktop pools; coordinate with FSLogix or equivalent profile-container technologies where actually deployed.
Apply site reliability engineering practices to Horizon/VDI services: define and report approved service-level indicators, proactively monitor connection success, session-launch latency, logon performance, session stability, resource utilization and desktop-pool health; create actionable alerting, dashboards and incident/problem runbooks.
Engineer and validate reliable delivery of virtual desktop services for the planned SOFCOM continuity-of-operations (COOP) site, including dependencies on Horizon brokers/connection servers, Unified Access Gateways, identity/AD, DNS, PKI, storage, networking, user profile/data availability and approved cross-site connectivity.
Develop and execute Government-approved COOP readiness assessments, tabletop and technical exercises, controlled failover/failback tests, alternate-site desktop-pool activation and user-access verification against Government-established recovery time and recovery point objectives (RTO/RPO), as applicable.
Perform capacity and failure-domain analysis for primary and alternate-site Horizon services; recommend high availability, load distribution, image/profile replication or recovery design improvements, and test changes only after approved engineering/security review.
Provide cross-functional troubleshooting of Windows desktop and server infrastructure, VMware vSphere, endpoint image management, authentication, TCP/IP/network segmentation, storage and security controls in support of end-to-end VDI service restoration.
WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED
Bring your technology expertise and drive for innovation to GDIT. The VDI Engineer must have:
Education: Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science. Additional years of experience can be used in lieu of degree requirement.
Experience: 5+ years of related experience
Technical skills: VMWare, DEM, COOP Implementation,
Certifications:…