We are looking for a Citrix Engineer in Dallas, TX for our Fortune 100 client. This is a long-term opportunity that will start at 6 months and most likely go at least 18 months. Pay Rate is $60 an hour. If you or anyone you know is interested, please contact me at jmcguire@fortistalent.com. See job description below:

SUMMARY: Responsible for designing and supporting a VDI infrastructure utilizing Xen Desktop 5.5, Citrix Provisioning Services 6.0, and System Center Virtual Machine Manager. The infrastructure will need to be designed to provide virtual desktops to meet business needs. ,

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: ,

Design, test, and support a VDI infrastructure utilizing Citrix Xen Desktop, Citrix Provisioning Services and System Center Virtual Machine Manager. ,
Design, test, and document back-end storage for optimal performance for VDI infrastructure. ,
Design, test, and document integration with SCOM for monitoring the VDI environment. ,
Develops and adheres to network standards. , Provides planning and technical support for company installations. ,
Provide assistance to other support groups as necessary ,
Assists in the selection and recommendation of standardized equipment selection. ,
Stays abreast of new technologies as it applies to business needs. ,
Performs other duties as assigned. ,

Systems Engineer II- Citrix XenDesktop – 1100726

BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee

Chattanooga, TN

The Systems Engineer II is responsible for the overall integrity, integration, performance, and security of all assigned systems. They provide leadership and guidance to other staff providing systems engineering services, coordinating tasks and ensuring their execution and documentation in accordance with established corporate standards. The Systems Engineer II is responsible for keeping abreast of new technologies and evaluating their applicability to BCBST’s environment and stated business goals.

Job Duties & Responsibilities:

• Serves as top-level technical expert in the analysis, design, implementation, and maintenance of all assigned systems, responsible for their overall security, integrity and reliability.
• Oversees the implementation of system upgrades and modifications, including planning, testing, scheduling and coordination. Ensures that change management and defined security procedures for all assigned systems are executed in accordance with I/S policies and procedures.
• Minimizes service interruptions through early identification and resolution of problems. Analyzes monitoring and maintenance data and implements changes as required to achieve optimum performance. Makes recommendations for resources required to maintain and/or expand service levels.
• Develops, maintains, and oversees a schedule of system backups and test restorations. Ensures that the business recovery plan for assigned systems adequately addresses BCBST’s requirements and established time frames.
• Oversees all support and problem management activities, provides tier-three support and guides less experienced staff in problem resolution. Reviews and analyzes problem-management data, in aggregate, to identify issues and trends directly affecting the quality of services.
• Drives the development, implementation, and maintenance of all policies, procedures, and standards pertaining to assigned services and systems, ensuring their conformance with industry-defined best practices. Oversees the maintenance of all operating records, and coordinates the production of assigned systems and services management reports, ensuring the accuracy of the data and the relevance of report metrics.
• Provides general oversight of all projects pertaining to assigned systems. May serve in the role of project lead, assuming responsibility for oversight of most or all aspects of a project. Undertakes research and/or evaluation projects as assigned, providing formal documentation of findings and conclusions according to established department standards.
• May function in the role of core team lead, with duties of instructing, directing, and checking the work of team members.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in a computer-sciences related field, or equivalent and demonstrable training and experience.  Appropriate technical certifications are a plus.

Experience:

• Seven (7) or more years experience as a full-time technical professional. (Mainframe and distributed platform technologies, etc. will be listed at time of posting based on area position is to support).
• Extensive experience in the analysis and design of enterprise systems, as well as in troubleshooting and providing technical support for these systems.

Skills/Certifications:

• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Proven ability to direct enterprise-scale technical projects.

Please apply via our career site at:

https://www.bcbst.com/about/careers/openings/

We have an immediate need for a senior level product marketing person with strong experience in the virtual desktop market – Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop experience is highly preferred. This self-starter will have the opportunity to drive the go-to-market strategy for a highly differentiated virtual desktop provisioning and management solution that is rapidly gaining global attention. The ability to communicate very well is an absolute must, and the ability to build thought leadership through blogging, marketing campaign support and communication with industry analysts are also critical skills.

 
If interested, please send your resume to Jim Gibson, jim.gibson@matrix42.com.

Job Description:

Our client has an excellent career opportunity for a Citrix Engineer to join its team in the Atlanta, GA office location. This position is responsible for evaluation, selection, implementation, integration, maintenance, upgrade, documentation, troubleshooting, and instruction of all remote access systems and services. Related duties include configuration and administration of associated software and systems, working with application owners to configure application settings, applying appropriate security measures, and publishing applications.

Responsibilities:
• Work with Network Systems to plan, design, and maintain Firm’s remote access infrastructure
• Build, manage, and troubleshoot multiple Citrix farms and associated components
• Develop and maintain virtual desktop and application publishing standards, policies and procedures
• Monitor system performance, capacity and provide periodic system status reports
• Plan, design, implement, and continuously improve disaster recovery procedures for the virtual environments • Work with application owners to publish and stream applications and desktops using Citrix, AppV and VMWare technologies
• Perform Tier 2 and 3 support functions for Remotes Access issues
• Be part of an on-call rotation to provide 24 hr. Remote Access coverage to users across the Firm • Communicate with vendors as necessary for installation, configuration, technical support, and purchasing issues.
• Conduct ongoing application and desktop publication technology assessments, research new products and features, and develop cost effective recommendations and plans for optimizing Remote Access and virtual environments.

Additional Job Info:

Requirements:

• Minimum 2 years Windows Terminal Server and Citrix Administration experience (XenApp 4 or later) in an Active Directory environment
• Solid experience building, configuring, and administering Citrix XenApp, Citrix Access Gateway Appliances, Citrix Netscalers, Citrix Web Interface 
• Demonstrable expertDemonstrable experience with other virtualization technologies including VMWare and AppV 
• Architectural and hands-on experience in various remote access gateway solutions 
• Working knowledge of Wide Area Networks and Internetworking 
• Significant knowledge of Windows 2000/2003/XP/2008 and Office 2007 and later
• Significant knowledge of Microsoft infrastructure technologies, including DHCP, DNS, WINS, Active Directory 2003, Group Policy Objects and scripting 
• Familiarity with enterprise security systems and procedures including RSA and PGP they will be working with 4000 workstations and 3700 end users nationally for all 30 branches

Stacey Parrish RECRUITER
Ten 10th Street, Suite 300. Atlanta, GA 30309
866.644.5800 T 404.682.5821
F 404.682.5890 M 404.993.6403
http://www.teksystems.com

 

Citrix and VMWare Systems Administrator – Position Description

Position Summary:

Our Fortune 1000 client, B/E Aerospace Inc., has retained us to find a number of technical specialists for their growing Corporate Information Technology organization including a Citrix/VMWare Administrator. This Systems Administrator will be located in Winston-Salem, NC. The organization has a global footprint both from a staffing and customer perspective and is positioned to take advantage of the predicted 80% increase in global air travel over the next decade.

Position details and requirements here.

Company Overview:

The company is a Fortune 1000 designer and manufacturer of custom engineered products serving a global market and has attained market leader status in each of its’ business segments. Revenues exceed $2 billion with over 5000 worldwide employees. The company has grown both organically and through aggressive acquisition of innovative and complimentary companies who can leverage the company’s position, customer relationships and capabilities to be platforms for rapid growth. The company has adjusted well to the global downturn by maintaining revenue while cutting expenses and increasing net earnings. This strategy has positioned the company extremely well for high profitability as the economy rebounds. The market has recognized this and the stock is trading near its’ historic high.

Company Culture:

The founder created and built the company on a foundation of respect and trust amongst highly skilled engineers. His legacy is a collegial environment where people are challenged, their ideas are respected, facts trump emotion, relationships are prized and action is rewarded. Excellent pay and benefits are a natural extension of this philosophy and longevity is the norm rather than the exception. People are treated as peers no matter what their position in the organization. The environment is informal but people are passionate and everyone is encouraged to innovate and speak their minds. The company products are highly engineered and that attention to detail, innovation in response to customer needs, quality control and working within tight tolerances is reflected in the culture of the company.

Why The Position Exists:

This is a newly created position and is part of a major change in IT that began with a new IT management team being brought in over the past year. They are creating a world class IT organization to better serve the business. The new leaders are agents of change but not disruptors. They have come into an IT organization that is now well-funded with the biggest single budget in the company and which is seen as critical to company success. The group is very diverse, open to ideas and moves at a swift pace. They have identified the issues, begun to implement changes and have already effected a change in attitude among users towards IT but there is much work remaining. They have put together a major restructuring plan that went into effect Jan. 1, 2011. That plan includes this role.

Reports to: Manager, Enterprise Wintel Services

Compensation:

Base salary will be dependent on experience and local market salaries for the required skills.

Benefits:

The company offers a comprehensive benefits program including: Medical, Dental, Vision, Flexible Spending Account, Life Insurance, Disability Insurance, 401k and Employee Stock Purchase programs

Location and Travel:

This position is located in Winston Salem, North Carolina. Travel is minimal.

Relocation Assistance:

The company will provide relocation assistance to the selected candidate according to company policy. That does not include purchasing homes. The successful candidate will be required to relocate (not commute) to the new city. Candidates who are not committed to permanent relocation should not apply.

Lifestyle & Community:

The Information Technology department has moved into a new office tower in downtown Winston Salem which is a small southern city known for its’ low cost of living, high quality of life, educational institutions, temperate climate and easy access to a wide variety of year-round recreational activities. Although small itself, the city is accessed by major interstates and is within an hour of larger markets with international airports, professional sports teams and big city cultural activities. Commuting traffic is non-existent and housing is very affordable.

Position Details

Essential Job Functions:

• Responsible for designing, implementing, configuring, administering and maintaining Citrix server farm and related technologies.

• Assess, design, plan, implement, manage and maintain complex virtualization (VMware ESX) enterprise environment.

• Responsible for installing, configuring and maintaining servers, networks and related equipment and technologies.

• Develop, test and maintain disaster recovery procedures.

• Develop and maintain system documentation on all assigned servers and equipment.

• Stay current with emerging enterprise technologies and recommend ways to better meet the IT needs of the organization. Develop improved methodologies for providing network support. Research and install new technologies.

• Provide off hours support as required.

• Provide backup support as needed for IT personnel.

Knowledge, Skills, Experience, and Education Required:

• 3 or more years of relevant experience with the following:

o Experience with VMware ESX 3.0 or higher.

o Experience with Citrix Presentation Server 4.0 or higher.

o Experience with SAN technologies.

• Knowledge of any of the following is desirable:

o Active Directory, disaster recovery strategies, MS SQL, Exchange 2010, data center infrastructure, IIS, enterprise backup solutions, high availability & service level strategies, remote access, PowerShell, McAfee ePO, systems administration scripting, wide area networking technologies, MS Terminal server.

• Excellent troubleshooting and problem solving skills.

• Strong end user support and training skills.

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Regards,  Ed

Ed Parsons

President

Berkshire Recruiting Services

"Where experience makes a difference"

294 North Main Street, Alpharetta Ga 30009

edp@berkshirerecruiting.com

(c) 770-891-5108 (w) 678-624-1180

 

As promised. Here are the materials from the Atlanta Citrix User Group March meeting:

 

EdgeSight PowerPoint Presentation

Key Performance Metrics Exposed in EdgeSight for XenApp 5.0 and EdgeSight for Endpoints 5.0

Scalability and Configurability  of the EdgeSight Agent for  Virtual Desktop Agent (XenDesktop)

EdgeSight for XenDesktop Best Practices

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