Senior Azure Virtual Desktop Engineer

Why AIS?

When you join AIS, you’re joining a mission-driven team that’s passionate about making a difference. You’ll work on projects that matter, alongside industry-leading experts, in an environment that fosters innovation, driving client success, and empowering our team to make a lasting impact. As an employee-owned company, we value collaboration, inclusivity, continuous growth, and shared success.

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Employee Ownership : Your contributions directly impact the company’s success, and you share in its achievements.

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Continuous Learning : Access to resources, training, and mentorship to support your professional growth.

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Inclusive Culture : A workplace where diversity is celebrated, and everyone’s voice is valued.

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Mission-Driven Work : Engage in projects that make a meaningful difference for our clients and communities.

What are we looking for?

At AIS, we're looking for more than just skills - we're looking for driven individuals who are passionate about making a difference, eager to grow, and aligned with our core principles.

Working@AIS

At AIS, we are dedicated to providing our employees with diverse opportunities to grow their careers while supporting a variety of impactful projects. For this position, we are seeking a talented individual to join AIS as a Lead Infrastructure Engineer.
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Core Knowledge & Skills: Aligns infrastructure strategy to business goals, leads large projects, applies compliance frameworks, designs high availability/disaster recovery and performance optimization patterns, and shapes deployment pipeline design.

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Work & Complexity: Directs cross-team programs, performs advanced tuning, implements high availability/failover architectures, leads audits, plans growth, and manages budgets.

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Quality & Independence: Delivers high-quality outcomes, sets team standards, introduces innovative solutions, and makes high-impact decisions.

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Teamwork & Communication: Leads the engineering team, develops talent, resolves conflicts, and communicates effectively with senior leadership and stakeholders.

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Consulting & Engagement: Provides high-level consulting to leadership, builds roadmaps, negotiates vendor contracts, and sponsors innovation initiatives.

As your initial project assignment, you will support the unique needs of our client as a Senior Azure Virtual Desktop Engineer. Project Summary

AIS is seeking a Senior Azure Virtual Desktop Engineer to design, build, and optimize secure Azure Virtual Desktop environments that provide a dependable user experience for Codex-enabled development and broader virtual desktop modernization for a federal customer.
Key Responsibilities

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Engineer AVD host pools, session hosts, images, scaling plans, application delivery, and user profiles.

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Create secure desktop patterns for Codex access, including the required network segmentation, firewall rules, browser and developer-tool controls.

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Implement and support FSLogix, Entra ID, Intune, profile storage, image lifecycle, and monitoring integrations.

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Plan and execute Citrix transition activities, performance validation, capacity planning, and user acceptance testing.

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Troubleshoot performance, sign-in, profile, application, network, and graphics issues across the AVD stack.

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Produce deployment standards, operational runbooks, and technical knowledge transfer for steady-state support.

Required For This Opportunity

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7+ years of endpoint, virtual desktop, or Windows infrastructure engineering experience.

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Hands-on AVD design and implementation experience with pooled and personal desktop patterns.

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Strong knowledge of FSLogix, Windows 11, Entra ID, Intune, Azure networking, and profile-storage design.

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Experience with image engineering, application packaging, performance tuning, and monitoring.

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Ability to work independently in a secure, highly controlled enterprise environment.

Nice to Have Skills

- Citrix migration experience.

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IGEL, thin-client