Workspace Delivery Engineer - Citrix

GSA Techsource is currently recruiting for a Workspace Delivery Engineer to work for a financial client. 

The successful candidate will be supporting the operational delivery of the clients Virtual Desktop Estate and its associated services. 

Essential Skills:

• Knowledge of the Citrix product suite over multiple product versions, including (but not limited to) Virtual Apps and Desktop and NetScaler (The ability to install, configure and manage Citrix NetScalers).
• Ivanti User Workspace Manager.
• Experience of design, implementation and support of Citrix solutions for multiple environments.
• Technical ownership of project delivery and engaging closely with the Project Manager to ensure projects are delivered on time and on budget.
• Ability to coach and mentor others to address day to day faults ranging from user maintenance and desktop performance to high visibility faults impacting many users.
• The ability to research solutions outside ones typical skill set is a strong plus.
• Ability to diagnosis hardware, security, and application issues
• Solid knowledge and experience with Windows 10/11 and application delivery/packaging solutions – including application streaming, sequencing and isolation.
• Experience with standard change management and configuration policies

Beneficial Skills:

Experience working with or supporting one or more of the following technologies would be an advantage:

• Microsoft App-V
• Office 365

Responsibilities:

• Produce detailed design documentation on medium to large scale for End User Service solutions, considering infrastructure and environmental factors
• Ensure project involvement is aligned to the Project Life Cycle Management, adhering to the four phases, conception, planning, execution and termination
• Identify Service Improvements and package these up into a proposal detailing the problem, the impact, the proposed solution and associated effort to implement.
• Provides specialist guidance and some supervision to less experienced colleagues. Analyses work in progress, takes action to ensure targets are met within safety and quality procedures, including hand-over to client where appropriate.
• Experience of capacity and performance analytics which can be drawn from when making customer recommendations in order to ensure solutions are efficient and optimally scaled.
• Provides specialist guidance and some supervision to less experienced colleagues. Analyses work in progress, takes action to ensure targets are met, including hand-over to client where appropriate.
• Responsible for building and maintaining strong relationships with internal customers and vendors and able to thrive in the ever changing work environment
• Deliver ITIL driven support via Incident, Problem and Change Management.
• Initiates action to maintain or improve services and standards within area of authority, recognising issues that need to be escalated. .
• Plays a leading role in scheduling implementation work, liaising with all concerned to ensure that requirements and / or priorities are met and disruption to the organisation is minimised.
• Assists with preparation of implementation procedures with fall back contingency plans. Installs and tests new versions of system software.
• Investigates potential and actual service problems and recommends solutions. Follows formal procedures to plan and test proposed solutions.
• Prepares and maintains operational documentation for relevant systems / services. Advises systems development and service delivery staff on the correct and effective use of system software.
• Gathers performance statistics from the IT platforms to enable recommendations for optimisation / service improvements.

The successful candidate will be required to work in the London office 3 days a week.

This role falls Inside IR35.




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