Senior Azure Virtual Desktop Engineer

Why AIS? When you join AIS, you’re joining a mission-driven team that’s passionate about making a difference. You’ll work on projects that matter, alongside industry-leading experts, in an environment that fosters innovation, driving client success, and empowering our team to make a lasting impact. As an employee-owned company, we value collaboration, inclusivity, continuous growth, and shared success. Employee Ownership : Your contributions directly impact the company’s success, and you share in its achievements. Continuous Learning : Access to resources, training, and mentorship to support your professional growth. Inclusive Culture : A workplace where diversity is celebrated, and everyone’s voice is valued. Mission-Driven Work : Engage in projects that make a meaningful difference for our clients and communities. What are we looking for? At AIS, we're looking for more than just skills - we're looking for driven individuals who are passionate about making a difference, eager to grow, and aligned with our core principles. Working@AIS At AIS, we are dedicated to providing our employees with diverse opportunities to grow their careers while supporting a variety of impactful projects. For this position, we are seeking a talented individual to join AIS as a Lead Infrastructure Engineer. Core Knowledge & Skills: Aligns infrastructure strategy to business goals, leads large projects, applies compliance frameworks, designs high availability/disaster recovery and performance optimization patterns, and shapes deployment pipeline design. Work & Complexity: Directs cross-team programs, performs advanced tuning, implements high availability/failover architectures, leads audits, plans growth, and manages budgets. Quality & Independence: Delivers high-quality outcomes, sets team standards, introduces innovative solutions, and makes high-impact decisions. Teamwork & Communication: Leads the engineering team, develops talent, resolves conflicts, and communicates effectively with senior leadership and stakeholders. Consulting & Engagement: Provides high-level consulting to leadership, builds roadmaps, negotiates vendor contracts, and sponsors innovation initiatives. As your initial project assignment, you will support the unique needs of our client as a Senior Azure Virtual Desktop Engineer. Project Summary AIS is seeking a Senior Azure Virtual Desktop Engineer to design, build, and optimize secure Azure Virtual Desktop environments that provide a dependable user experience for Codex-enabled development and broader virtual desktop modernization for a federal customer. Key Responsibilities Engineer AVD host pools, session hosts, images, scaling plans, application delivery, and user profiles. Create secure desktop patterns for Codex access, including the required network segmentation, firewall rules, browser and developer-tool controls. Implement and support FSLogix, Entra ID, Intune, profile storage, image lifecycle, and monitoring integrations. Plan and execute Citrix transition activities, performance validation, capacity planning, and user acceptance testing. Troubleshoot performance, sign-in, profile, application, network, and graphics issues across the AVD stack. Produce deployment standards, operational runbooks, and technical knowledge transfer for steady-state support. Required For This Opportunity 7+ years of endpoint, virtual desktop, or Windows infrastructure engineering experience. Hands-on AVD design and implementation experience with pooled and personal desktop patterns. Strong knowledge of FSLogix, Windows 11, Entra ID, Intune, Azure networking, and profile-storage design. Experience with image engineering, application packaging, performance tuning, and monitoring. Ability to work independently in a secure, highly controlled enterprise environment. Nice to Have Skills Citrix migration experience. IGEL, thin-client, GPU-enabled desktop, or Azure NetApp Files experience. Azure Virtual Desktop Specialty certification. At AIS, we are committed to offering competitive and fair compensation that reflects the skills, experience, and contributions of each team member. The targeted base salary range for this role is $121,000-$182,000 per year. Please note that this range is provided as a guideline and the final offer will be based on several factors, including but not limited to, skillset and competencies, level of experience, education, certifications, and location. We value transparency in our hiring process and are happy to discuss how your unique qualifications align with our compensation structure during the interview process. Applied Information Sciences does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, religion, color, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other basis. Employment decisions are based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs.