We're looking for an experienced Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) Engineer / Consultant to join a major technology transformation with a large Australian healthcare provider.
The organisation is well progressed in its move away from Citrix and is now looking for someone with robust AVD expertise to own the detailed technical design and migration plan, then work alongside the existing engineering teams to help them execute it.
This isn't a BAU support role. Nor is it simply another pair of hands.
You'll be the person who can look across the existing Citrix and Azure environment, understand the target state and dependencies, and clearly define how they get from where they are today to a scalable AVD environment in production.
What you'll be doing
- Own and develop the detailed Azure Virtual Desktop solution design
- Define the technical roadmap and implementation plan for the Citrix-to-AVD migration
- Develop the approach for migrating approximately 10 remaining applications into AVD
- Define application deployment, testing, migration sequencing and cutover windows
- Provide technical direction and guidance to existing infrastructure and engineering teams executing the migration
- Work through architecture, networking, identity, security and application dependencies
- Support the introduction of Hydra to simplify and automate AVD management
- Work alongside related initiatives involving Palo Alto Prisma Access Browser,
Delinea and F5 Distributed Cloud
- Help transition services away from traditional Citrix, NetScaler and remote-access infrastructure
- Ensure the solution is properly documented and can be transitioned effectively into BAU operations
What we're looking for
Most importantly, you'll have strong, recent Azure Virtual Desktop experience, ideally including the design and delivery of a Citrix-to-AVD migration in a complex enterprise environment.
You'll be comfortable operating at both the design and engineering level. You don't need to personally execute every component, but you need enough technical depth to design the solution, make the right technical calls, give engineers clear direction and help solve issues when things get difficult.
Experience across some of the following would be highly regarded:
- Azure Virtual Desktop
- Citrix and Citrix-to-AVD migrations
- FSLogix
- Azure networking and infrastructure
- Entra ID / identity and access
- Intune
- Application packaging and deployment
- Automation / Infrastructure as Code
- Hydra
- Palo Alto Prisma / Prisma Access Browser
- Delinea / Zero Trust access
- F5 Distributed Cloud / NetScaler
You'll also need to be comfortable working through ambiguity and a relatively fast-moving transformation, engaging with infrastructure, network, security and application specialists while keeping the technical work moving.