About The Position
We are seeking an experienced Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) Tech Lead to design, implement, and optimize enterprise-scale AVD environments. This role involves leading technical teams, ensuring secure and scalable deployments, and driving cost efficiency across virtual desktop infrastructure.
Skill Required
- Experience in Automating Infrastructure deployment
- Nerdio Manager for Enterprise experience.
- DevOps mindset: CI/CD, Infrastructure-as-Code, automated golden image pipelines
- Familiarity with Microsoft Intune and M365 stack.
- Strong analytical skills for performance tuning, cost optimization, and root-cause analysis
Selection Criteria
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead design and implementation of AVD host pools, application groups, workspaces, and session hosts.
- Lead a team of Cloud engineers and work with MSP to ensure reliability and resiliency of the AVD environment; execute lifecycle and functional upgrade of changes
- Develop best practices, maintain architecture documentation, and implement security and compliance hardening.
- Architect and deploy autoscaling, golden image pipelines, and IaC using Ansible/Terraform.
- Automate deployment and management workflows via PowerShell, Ansible Playbooks, or Nerdio Manager.
- Implement cost optimization strategies for AVD environments and conduct regular reviews to propose cost-saving measures.
- Solid understanding of FSLogix, Azure Files/NetApp, and profile containerization
- Strong Azure networking and identity (AD/Azure AD, SSO) expertise
- Demonstrated leadership in managing mid-sized technical team
- Experience in client-facing consulting, requirements gathering, and architectural reviews
- Ensure work items are documented, assigned, and complaint with ADO Boards standards for visibility & traceability.
- Experience with various architecture styles, design patterns and best practices for software development.
- Experience evaluating technology options, and modern architecture trade-off analysis
- Knowledge of API Protocols (REST, SOAP,)
- Knowledge of Azure Services (App Services, Functions, Azure DevOps)
Teamwork And Communication Skill
Demonstrates the ability to effectively work in a team environment, can work across functions to verify requirements and align on business objectives.Demonstrates influential leadership through ability in driving product design and architecture, and adherence to IT engineering standards and architecture maturity.Excellent verbal and written communication skills and demonstrates the ability to effectively work asynchronously across time zones.Strong track record of keeping up to date with industry trends. Experience with the growth of others’ capabilities.
Business Acumen
Demonstrated experience supporting complex AVD Environments and support global user baseDemonstrated ability to quickly gain knowledge in business domains, data, workflows and processes in which the Virtual solutions are being deployedChevron ENGINE supports global operations, supporting business requirements across the world. Accordingly, the work hours for employees will be aligned to support business requirements. The standard work week will be Monday to Friday. Working hours are 8:00am to 5:00pm or 1:30pm to 10:30pm.
