Job Overview
- Date Posted: Posted 6 days ago
- Location: Johannesburg, Gauteng
- Job Title: VDI Stack Monitoring Specialist (Senior)
- Closes: 7 October 2024
- Education Level: Bachelors Degree
- Job Level: Senior
- Minimum Experience: 3 - 5 Years
VDI Stack Monitoring Specialist (Senior) – Johannesburg.
Are you a Virtual Device or Infrastructure Specialist and ready for a new challenge? Please have a look at the core skills required and if you tick some or all the boxes, please apply for these exciting opportunities:
- VMWare Horizon
- VMWare Intelligence
- VMWare Workspace ONE
- VMWare Freestyle
- ServiceNow Integration
- Citrix DaaS/Citrix Virtual Application
- Microsoft Azure
- Microsoft Intune
- Unified Endpoint Management
Start date – 1 November 2024 (2 Year Contract)
Requirements:
- Experience in Azure Monitoring Tools
- Experience in VMWare Horizon Cloud preferably Next Gen
- Experience in Azure Networking
- Knowledge of VMWare Workspace ONE Access and Unified Endpoint Management
- Knowledge of Microsoft Intune
- Knowledge in Scripting (Powershell)
- Experience in VMWare Intelligence
- Experience in VMWare Freestyle
- Experience in operation of Windows Servers (higher than 2016)
- Experience in Windows Client (Windows 10 / 11) OS troubleshooting and patch management
- Experience with Active Directory and GPO
- Experience with Scripting (PowerShell, Python etc.)
- Experience Citrix Xen-Desktop (higher than 7.x) and Xen-App (higher than 7.x) full stack
- Experience Citrix Netscaler (higher than 12.x) and Storefront
- Experience Citrix XenServer (higher than 7.x)
- Experience Citrix on VMware Hypervisor Stack (higher VMWare ESXi 6.x)
- Experience monitoring tools (Aternity, SCOM, AZURE, Nagius, Dynatrace etc.)
- Experience in troubleshooting in infrastructure
- Experience in data-driven monitoring and analytics
- Experience with ITIL processes (Incident, Change and Problem management)
- Plan and execute maintenance tasks (change management)
- Plan and execute infrastructure lifecycle tasks (technical lifecycle, change management)
- Resolve incident tickets
- Analyze and resolve problem tickets
- Any additional responsibilities assigned in the Agile Working Model (AWM) Charter
Advantageous Skills:
- Experience with cloud technologies and cloud providers (Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services)
- Microsoft W365
- Experience in operation, maintenance of VDI technologies (Microsoft and VMware Horizon)
- Automated problem remediation
- Machine learning (ML) for data analytics
- Network troubleshooting skills
- Understand Rest API technology
Qualifications and Experience:
- A university degree in a relevant field of study (e.g., computer science, engineering, sciences, etc.) or a comparable qualification
- 5+ years of operations experience with Citrix VDI and App stack
- Experience with windows desktops and server support
- Experience with Windows Terminal Server
- Experience with software packaging and image creation
- Experience with hardware and software lifecycle
- Experience with ITIL processes (Problem, Incident, Change management)
What will be your role and responsibilities?
- Be part of a global team responsible for the development and operation of the BMW Digital Workspace that includes the product Virtual Device (VDI).
- Be involved in the maintenance and operation of a global Digital Workspace infrastructure for virtual devices.
- Be a maintenance and operations focused team member for our cloud and on-premises VDI platforms.
- Make sure that the infrastructure for VDI platforms runs smoothly.
- Actively work on constantly improving operational excellence including automation and proactive monitoring approaches.
- Collaborate with an international product team, external providers, vendors, and end-users.
- Treat security as a first-class citizen.
- Work closely with stakeholders, development teams in constantly improving our VDI platforms stability and availability.
- Work with other IT teams on integration of new features and components.
Main function:
- Be responsible for the operations and standardization of the enterprise VDI infrastructure, platform, and desktop components.
- Be responsible for the verification, planning, and actioning of maintenance tasks together with other infrastructure teams.
- Continuously work on improving the operational stability.
- Work on automation of platform operations, troubleshooting, and maintenance topics.
- Install, configure, maintain, and deploy virtual Apps and desktop images.
- Installation, Configuration, and maintenance of RDSH servers, e.g., Windows Server, Windows Multisession.
- Installation, Configuration, and maintenance of Published Application presentation layer (e.g., XenApp & Citrix Workspace).
- Application and Server hardening (e.g., Ivanti).
- Work with Application Monitoring tools.
What do we offer?
- Cutting edge global IT system landscape and processes.
- Flexible working of 1960 hours in a 12-month period.
- High Work-Life balance.
- Remote / On-site work location flexibility.
- Highly motivating, energetic, and fast-paced working environment.
- Modern, state-of-the-art offices.
- Dynamic Global Team collaboration.
- Application of the Agile Working Model Methodology.
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