VIQU IT Recruitment
VDI Platform Engineer (VMWare) – London Hybrid 2/3 days per week – Inside IR35
** SC Clearance highly desireable, but all applications considered **
An experienced hands on VDI Platform Engineer required to support a medium-sized enterprise Omnissa (VMware) Horizon environment in a critical setting.
- Running the Horizon platform day-to-day (pods, pools, brokers, gateways)
- Managing VDI infrastructure alongside platform teams (vSphere, storage, networking)
- Monitoring performance and capacity, troubleshooting issues end-to-end
- Supporting incidents, problem management and change activity
- Managing desktop pools, images and provisioning
- Supporting application delivery (App Volumes or similar) and user profiles (DEM or equivalent)
- Troubleshooting Windows and Linux VDI session and performance issues
- Supporting underlying Windows Server services (AD, DNS, authentication)
- Contributing to patching, upgrades and continuous platform improvements
- Strong hands-on experience with VMware / Omnissa Horizon
- Experience running VDI in enterprise environments
- Good understanding of:
- Horizon architecture (connection servers, UAG, pools, images)
- vSphere (vCenter, ESXi)
- VDI performance and troubleshooting
- Solid Windows Server experience (AD, GPO, DNS, identity integration)
- Experience supporting Windows and/or Linux VDI desktops
- Strong troubleshooting skills across platform, OS and user experience
Desirable skills:
- App Volumes or application layering tools
- Dynamic Environment Manager (DEM) or equivalent
- NSX or network segmentation in VDI environments
- Experience in regulated or high-availability environments
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