PLATFORM ENGINEERING LEAD - APPLICATION VIRTUALIZATION PLATFORM

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! We have an exciting opportunity for an exceptional individual to work supporting one of our clients as a Platform Engineering Lead - Application Virtualization Platform What you'll do.
- Direct platform engineering team by establishing priorities aligned to committed objectives, then executing and monitoring progress towards platform engineering outcomes.
- Provide specialized knowledge and expertise in Application Virtualization platform engineering activities related to Foundational Technology platform family, primarily leading design, deployment, management, and maintenance of the Citrix Virtual Apps / XenApp global environments which are supporting critical Business Functions (i.
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Manufacturing, Plasma, R&D, etc.).
- Ensure focus on platform engineering quality by adopting consistent development, testing, debugging and documenting practices for effective communication of capabilities.
- Accountable for overall platform capabilities engineering outcomes (i.
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implementation, development, testing, validation, maintenance), as well as management of development practices.
- Continuously drive improvements across platform performance while remaining accountable against identified KPIs and OKRs (i.
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Quality, Speed, Adoption, Costs).
- Execute activities based on Scaled Agile Framework PI Planning framework.
- Responsible for platform budgeting activities.
- Responsible for planning, managing, and measuring work.
- Responsible for management of vendor contracts, and capacity commitments.
- Drive partnership with platform and Enterprise architecture teams to drive consistent design of platform capabilities.
- Contribute to platform architecture roadmap, in collaboration with platform owner, product manager, and platform architecture leads.
- Lead and oversee platform engineering execution lifecycle (planning / scheduling / building / testing / deploying / documenting), and monitor progress to ensure that engineering activities are completed on time, on budget, and with proper engineering practices and quality processes.
Preferred experience.
-Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Statistics, and/or Management Information Systems from an accredited university or equivalent experience.
- 10+ years or more of relevant professional experience as a technology engineer, with 7+ years in a role managing platform teams.
- 7+ years of experience deploying Application Virtualization infrastructure using private hosting and public cloud solutions.
Demonstrated knowledge and experience with the following technologies and activities are required.
Citrix Virtual Apps / XenApp deployment on premises using VMware virtualization, and on AWS.
Designing, planning, deploying, and administrating Citrix CVAD, Server Farms, Web Interface, StoreFront, NetScaler, Provisioning Services, Citrix Profile Management, Citrix Cloud services.
Active Directory, Group Policy, and DHCP configuration.
Automation using PowerShell scripting required.
Troubleshooting related to Citrix XenApp infrastructure.
-3+ years of experience using public cloud infrastructure (AWS required, Azure desired).
- Previous experience managing global engineering teams and budgets required.
- Proven knowledge of IT Service Management, Service Operations, and Service Release (ITIL v4 and ITSM).
- Working knowledge of DevOps CI/CD technologies and lifecycle.
- Demonstrated knowledge of Cloud IaaS and PaaS technology environments (AWS and Azure preferred).
- Demonstrated experience and knowledge of micro-services concepts, API integration enablement, container technologies and services (Kubernetes based preferred).
- Proven experience with platform engineering automation lifecycle, leveraging infrastructure as code, configuration management, orchestration, modern patterns, APIs, and site reliability engineering concepts.
- Experience with scripted deployment process, tools, and lifecycle (i.
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Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, Python).
- Certification CCAV (Citrix Certified Associate Virtualization), CCPV (Citrix Certified Professional Virtualization) desired Why Cognizant?Improve your career in one of the largest and fastest growing IT services providers worldwideReceive ongoing support and funding with training and development plansHave a highly competitive benefits and salary packageGet the opportunity to work for leading global companiesWe are committed to respecting human rights and build a better future by helping your minds and the environment We invest in people and their wellbeing.
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We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, sex, age, disability, nationality, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or for any other reason covered.
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