Senior Administrator - Citrix Server

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In short

We are seeking an experienced Citrix L2 Engineer with 5-7 years of experience in administering enterprise Citrix environments, including Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops. The role involves troubleshooting issues, monitoring infrastructure, managing user sessions, and supporting image/application changes. Collaboration with various IT teams is essential for maintaining stability and performance. Experience with on-premises, Citrix Cloud, and hybrid environments is advantageous.

Responsibilities

Administer and support enterprise Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops environments.
Manage and monitor Citrix components including Delivery Controllers, StoreFront, Citrix Gateway/NetScaler, VDAs, Machine Catalogs, and Delivery Groups.
Perform routine platform health checks and proactively identify infrastructure issues.
Support Citrix policies, application assignments, published applications, and virtual desktops.
Assist with Citrix component upgrades, maintenance, and infrastructure changes.
Own L2 incidents and service requests escalated by L1 teams, driving them to resolution within SLAs.
Troubleshoot Citrix application launch, desktop launch, session, authentication, connectivity, and performance issues.
Investigate user-specific and environment-wide Citrix problems.
Coordinate with L3 and other infrastructure teams for complex technical issues.
Maintain accurate troubleshooting and resolution details within the ITSM platform.
Troubleshoot disconnected, hung, slow, or failed Citrix sessions.
Analyze user logon delays and application/desktop performance issues.
Monitor session utilization, resource consumption, and infrastructure health.
Investigate printing, clipboard, drive mapping, peripheral redirection, display, and other Citrix user-experience issues.
Support publishing and delivery of applications and virtual desktops through Citrix.
Manage and troubleshoot Machine Catalogs and Delivery Groups.
Assist with application updates and new application onboarding.
Validate application functionality and accessibility following changes.
Troubleshoot application launch and application compatibility issues within the Citrix environment.
Administer and troubleshoot Citrix Profile Management and related user-profile issues.
Investigate profile corruption, slow logons, profile loading, and user-settings problems.
Support profile optimization and exclusion configurations.
Coordinate with Active Directory, Group Policy, and application teams for profile issues.
Support Citrix master/golden image maintenance and deployment activities.
Install, configure, upgrade, and troubleshoot Citrix Virtual Delivery Agents.
Support OS patching, application updates, and configuration changes to Citrix images.
Perform pre-change and post-change validation to ensure applications and desktops remain available.
Assist in troubleshooting image provisioning and registration issues.
Support environments using Machine Creation Services (MCS).
Troubleshoot machine provisioning, registration, power-management, and catalog-related issues.
Support image updates and rollout activities.
Provide L2 operational support for Citrix Gateway/NetScaler components.
Troubleshoot common user-access, authentication, connectivity, and Gateway-related issues.
Support certificate renewal and configuration changes.
Troubleshoot Citrix-related authentication and authorization issues involving Active Directory.
Investigate Group Policy-related issues affecting Citrix sessions, applications, desktops, or profiles.
Support user/group entitlement and access-related troubleshooting.
Support Citrix workloads hosted on VMware vSphere/ESXi and Microsoft Hyper-V.
Troubleshoot VM availability, resource, connectivity, and Citrix guest-level issues.
Support Citrix workloads operating in Microsoft Azure or other applicable cloud environments.
Assist in managing hybrid environments spanning on-premises infrastructure and Citrix Cloud.
Monitor Citrix infrastructure using tools such as Citrix Director and enterprise monitoring solutions.
Analyze session performance, logon duration, machine availability, application failures, and infrastructure alerts.
Identify recurring performance issues and recommend corrective action.
Support capacity monitoring and highlight potential resource constraints.
Support Windows and Citrix platform patching activities.
Perform pre-patch and post-patch health validation.
Assist with Citrix component, VDA, agent, and image upgrades.
Support vulnerability remediation and security-compliance activities.
Ensure production changes follow established Change Management processes.
Participate in Root Cause Analysis for recurring and high-impact Citrix incidents.
Review Citrix logs, Windows event logs, monitoring information, and infrastructure dependencies.
Recommend corrective and preventive actions.
Use PowerShell to support Citrix administration, reporting, health checks, and troubleshooting.
Develop or enhance scripts for repetitive operational activities.
Identify automation opportunities.
Develop and maintain SOPs, runbooks, troubleshooting guides, and knowledge articles.
Provide technical guidance to L1 engineers for Citrix incidents and service requests.
Conduct knowledge-sharing sessions on recurring issues and troubleshooting methods.
Improve L1 resolution capability by documenting known issues and standard recovery procedures.

Requirements

5–7 years of hands-on experience supporting and administering enterprise Citrix environments.
Strong hands-on experience with Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops.
Good knowledge of Citrix Studio and Citrix Director.
Hands-on understanding of Delivery Controllers, StoreFront, VDAs, Machine Catalogs, and Delivery Groups.
Working knowledge of Citrix Gateway/NetScaler.
Experience with Citrix Profile Management.
Good knowledge of Machine Creation Services (MCS) and image-management concepts.
Good understanding of Citrix application and desktop publishing.
Experience troubleshooting Citrix session, logon, application-launch, VDA-registration, and performance issues.
Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills.
Ability to independently own L2 Citrix incidents and technical escalations.
Strong communication and coordination skills.
Ability to work effectively with Windows, network, cloud, application, security, and virtualization teams.
Good documentation and knowledge-management skills.
Ability to mentor and provide technical guidance to L1 engineers.
Comfortable working in a 24x7 global support environment, where applicable.

Desired Qualifications

Experience supporting on-premises, Citrix Cloud, and hybrid environments is desirable.
Citrix Cloud exposure is desirable.
Support Citrix workloads operating in Microsoft Azure or other applicable cloud environments.
Assist in managing hybrid environments spanning on-premises infrastructure and Citrix Cloud.

Benefits

Consolidated revenues as of 12 months ending September 2026 totaled $14.8 billion.

Skills

Citrix Virtual Apps and DesktopsCitrix GatewayNetScalerCitrix StudioCitrix DirectorDelivery ControllersStoreFrontVDAsMachine CatalogsDelivery GroupsCitrix Profile ManagementMachine Creation Services (MCS)VMware vSphere/ESXiMicrosoft Hyper-VMicrosoft AzurePowerShellActive DirectoryGroup Policy

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