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At-a-Glance:
Are you ready to build your career by joining an innovative advisory services organization? If so, our client is hiring a Senior Citrix Engineer!
What You'll Do:
- Publish, deploy, and support business critical applications on static and MCS based Citrix servers in a Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktop 7 environment.
- Create, maintain and update MCS based master images and static servers.
- Manage and support Citrix and Microsoft based group policies.
- Maintain and support App-V packaged applications.
- Experience in supporting and tuning audio & video conferencing software such as Microsoft Teams, WebEx, and Zoom in a Citrix HDX environment.
- Experience supporting Citrix FAS, Cloud Connector, Client, Studio, Director, StoreFront.
- Manage enterprise-wide Distributed File System (Client).
- Implement, manage and support internally hosted applications as a part of the Application Services team.
- Split time approximately 40:60 between project-based and support-based work; split may change depending on workload.
- Work on projects that include multi-tier application review, onboarding, and maintenance and file server migration and consolidation.
- Support incoming application incident and request tickets in a fast-paced environment.
- Manage and respond to daily alerts from monitoring systems (SCOM, Citrix Director and xMatters)
- Create application runbooks and maintain existing documentation for knowledge sharing and training.
- Communicate proposed changes and improvements to ensure optimal performance and reliability.
What You Bring:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or equivalent work experience
- 2-5 years of relevant, hands-on experience supporting Windows Server 2016 and higher in an Enterprise Environment
- Proficient in supporting Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS, IIS, Virtualization (VMware) and SSL.
- Excellent troubleshooting skills with a scientific approach to problem investigation and resolution
- Strong understanding of generally accepted system administration methodologies and tools such as Wireshark, Fiddler, Procmon and others.
- In-depth understanding of common protocols and networking such as TCP/IP, UDP, TLS/SSL, VLANs, MAC addresses, subnets, and firewalls
- Good written documentation skills and demonstrable experience of documenting systems and procedures
- Experience with and willingness to follow a strict change management and incident tracking process.
- Functional knowledge of PowerShell scripting and desire to become more advanced.
- Passion for providing outstanding support for inbound incident tickets, as well as foresight to manage risk and scale; must know when to work independently, and when to escalate.
- Experience with server management tools such as SCCM or similar
- Proficient in IIS management including app pools, site authentication and protocol binding.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, including an ability to interact with users of varying technical skill levels.
- Detail-oriented individual with the ability to work with limited supervision and managed his/her own time.
- Collaborative within the team for special projects or troubleshooting and work across various IT groups and business units.
- Experience working in a highly secured and least privilege access environment.
- In addition, experience with the following technologies:
- IaaS, PaaS and SaaS cloud systems such as Microsoft Azure, Citrix Cloud, and ShareFile
- Fluent in automation and scripting utilizing PowerShell
- Strong understanding of multi-tier application and framework such as Java and .Net
- Service Now Incident/Change Management
- Previous Financial sector experience preferred
- Occasional weekend work or evening hours when scheduled work requires, including on-call rotation.
- Work on other ad hoc duties as assigned.
Position Type: Contract
Get in Touch:
We want to hear from you! If you think you'd be a good match, submit your resume and reach out to Karmina at 201-226-3548 to learn more.
Who We Are:
Since 1986, Hired by Matrix, Inc. has improved our candidates' lives with exciting job opportunities that provide outstanding career advancement. Hired by Matrix offers our contract professionals competitive salaries, benefits after 60 days, and a 401k option with a company match after one year.
Hired by Matrix is an Equal Opportunity Employer and proud to be certified as both a Woman-Owned Business Enterprise and a Woman-Owned Small Business.
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