Senior Citrix Engineer
Senior Citrix Engineer Location : Dallas, TX/ Remote Role Overview Senior Citrix Engineer with extensive hands-on experience designing, building, and deploying large Citrix environments. Must be able to lead delivery end-to-end, from architecture through implementation, and perform advanced troubleshooting across Citrix, Windows, Active Directory, networking, automation, and VMware layers. 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).