Senior Citrix Engineer

Must-Have Experience

• Extensive enterprise Citrix engineering experience supporting large-scale environments.
• Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops (CVAD) on-prem: design, build, upgrades, and HA patterns.
• Citrix DaaS (Citrix Cloud): fundamentals, hybrid deployments, and identity integration familiarity.
• Proven experience migrating users/workloads from one CVAD Site to another (pilot, waves, rollback).
• Provisioning expertise: PVS (RDSH) and MCS (persistent VDI) design and troubleshooting.
• Windows image engineering for Server 2016/2019/2022 (gold image lifecycle and promotion).
• StoreFront: stores, authentication, beacons, and Workspace app configuration.
• Profiles/user state: Citrix Profile Management (UPM) and FSLogix containers; file share permissions; logon troubleshooting.
• Group Policy (GPO): loopback, filtering, performance tuning, and security hardening baselines.
• Active Directory/IAM: OU design, delegation, least-privilege access management; multi-domain/multi-forest/trust impacts (DNS/Kerberos).
• VMware vSphere/vCenter: templates/cloning, provisioning support, and performance troubleshooting.
• Entra ID (Azure AD) SSO: understanding of enterprise SSO concepts and EUC/Citrix integration patterns.
• Strong knowledge and working experience with Citrix PVS and MCS Images with hands-on experience with reversing Images for VMWare Tools upgrade, OS upgrades and other tasks that require reverse Imaging.

Soft Skills and Working Style

• Able to respond effectively and resolve issues during incidents and cutovers.
• Strong system-level troubleshooting and RCA skills across Citrix/Windows/AD/DNS/network/VMware.
• Research-driven: able to validate solutions using vendor documentation and controlled testing.
• Collaborative and adaptable; works effectively with Network, Security, AD/IAM, VM ware, and app teams.
• Clear communicator with strong documentation habits (runbooks, standards, handover materials).