Platform Engineering Lead

**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.e. Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, Python).**
**- Certification CCAV (Citrix Certified Associate Virtualization), CCPV (Citrix Certified Professional Virtualization) desired**
**- 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.e. 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.e. 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.e. 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.**

Tipo de puesto: Tiempo completo

Sueldo: $100,000.00 al mes

Lugar de trabajo: Empleo presencial