BAE Systems Intelligence & Security is hiring a Principal Systems Administrator to join the VDI team. In this role, you will be central to designing, securing, and maintaining our Omnissa Horizon remote access, application delivery, and virtual desktop environments. Your work ensuring highly-available and secure solutions directly supports our mission to Protect Those That Protect Us.
What You'll Do
- Design, engineer, deploy, and maintain highly-available and secure Omnissa Horizon Operating environments.
- Support Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktop environments including Citrix Application Delivery Controllers (NetScaler).
- Perform technical planning (cost, capacity, logistics), architecture, design, implementation, configuration management, maintenance, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, mitigation efforts, and monitoring of services and solutions.
- Continuously evaluate currently deployed and emerging Remote Desktop and Access solutions to evolve business operations.
- Define process and success criteria for new technology proof of concepts.
- Assist with the creation of key performance indicators and metrics reports and dashboards to represent service health and user experience.
- Perform customer outreach to support service enhancements and troubleshooting.
- Provide technical and project leadership for the development of advanced solutions, assist with project direction, milestone planning, and completion.
- Interface with internal customers, program security, and management teams in planning for, deploying, maintaining, and troubleshooting services and systems.
- Assist management with VDI service roadmaps and service lifecycle management.
- Document technical processes and procedures as needed.
- Represent the VDI Team in meetings, including solution, architecture, and security reviews.
- Facilitate technical and group discussions.
- Cross train and assist with technical development of less experienced team members.
- Work under limited direction to determine, develop, and provide solutions/enhancements adhering to strict Information Systems security guidelines.
- Leverage troubleshooting skills to address stability objectives both reactively and proactively.
- Maintain a regular and predictable work schedule. Participate in on-call rotations.
- Establish and maintain effective working relationships within Enterprise Shared Services and company Business Sectors.
- Perform other duties as necessary.
What We're Looking For
- Bachelor’s degree in a related technical field plus 6 or more years related experience. Related technical experience or certifications may be considered in lieu of education. Degree must be from an accredited institution.
- 4+ Years of experience supporting a VMWare Horizon environment
- Functional knowledge of core networking concepts including TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, routers, switches, firewalls, load balancing, VLAN segmentation, etc.
- Functional knowledge of Group Policy creation, application, and inheritance.
Nice to Have
- Knowledge of and hands on experience with Citrix Virtual Apps and ADC’s
- Experience with Windows Server and Windows Server technologies
Technical Stack
- Omnissa Horizon
- Citrix Virtual Apps
- Citrix Application Delivery Controllers (NetScaler)
- Windows Server
- Windows Server technologies
Team & Environment
This is an individual contributor role within a VDI team, collaborating with peers, internal customers, and management.
Benefits & Compensation
- Compensation: Up to $164,259
Work Mode
This is a hybrid position based in Fort Walton Beach, Florida.
BAE Systems is an equal opportunity employer.
