Citrix Administrator - Purple Drive

Proficiency in Citrix components including virtual ADC appliances, VDAs, storefronts, delivery controllers, FAS server, Cloud Connectors, Citrix Cloud, and ADM service. 

•Strong understanding of core technologies including Windows, DNS, Active Directory, IIS, Certificate Services, and networking.

•Five years of experience operating infrastructure in Microsoft Azure.

• Minimum 3-5 years' experience Citrix XenApp 6.X / 7.X and Citrix XenDesktop 7

• Minimum 3-5 years' experience with engineering and administration of remote access gateways covering Citrix, Cisco and Juniper product lines.

• Minimum 2 year experience Citrix Access Gateway/Netscaler

• knowledge of relationship of each component of the farm including: network, storage, server, and database

• Experience with DNS and DHCP

• Thorough knowledge of remote access solutions covering IPSec, SSL VPNs and associated data security designs

• Strong Technical knowledge of Windows 2003/2008, Windows XP, Windows 7, SQL Server, Altiris, MS Office 2003/2007/2010, Active Directory

• Working knowledge of application deployment process and functional network troubleshooting

• Ability to function in a fast-paced environment with shifting priorities and tight deadlines

• Provide escalated, highly complex technical support to customers by investigating and resolving systems-related matters of significance; provides support telephonically and/or electronically

• Strong communication skills to communicate systems proposals to management and customers and provide systems diagnoses and resolution for current systems

• Good interpersonal skills to interact with customers, senior level personnel, subordinates, and team members

• Ability to work independently and as part of a global team

10 Years and above

• This person will help build our Citrix stack on top of a Azure and VMware environment

• You'll have the opportunity to present these solutions to the business and leadership of the organization, so presentation and speaking skills are needed

• Assess environment readiness

• Identify the server performance metrics that determine whether a server is a good virtualization candidate

• Identify options for providing Provisioning Services bootstrap redundancy and available network optimizations for Provisioning Services

• Determine how to configure an Access Gateway implementation for an environment

• Optimize server performance

• Identify problem trends and resolve

• View and interrupt Edgesight reporting information

• Experience developing training tools and documentation; oversees implementation of same