Senior Citrix Administrator

Senior Citrix Administrator

This position is contingent upon contract award. Candidates must have an active Secret clearance and verify, before applying, that you meet the minimum requirements of the position. JANUS Research Group is seeking a Senior Citrix Administrator to support the IT Services and Support (ITSS) requirements for the U.S. Army Product Lead Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology Enterprise Systems and Services (PL ALTESS) requirement, in support of the Program Executive Office Enterprise (PEO Enterprise) in Radford, VA.

The Senior Citrix Administrator will be supporting the ALTESS Windows team. This is currently a mixed and growing environment of Windows 2019 and Windows 2022. This position will work with the existing Windows team to manage, maintain, deploy, troubleshoot and support servers for a mixed customer environment. This position will plan, execute and implement new system HW and SW and create and maintain team technical instructions, operating procedures and policies as needed. The Senior Citrix Administrator will need to be adept at monitoring and tuning system performance, ongoing operation of the servers, hardening of the servers and reporting of the overall security and operational status and recommend improvements to the enterprise and manage new SW/HW integrations when required while also providing utilization reports using existing tools to identify problems and corrective actions as needed. The position will need excellent communication and team skills. This position will provide support towards the lifecycle of a mixed environment of vendor equipment in the datacenter to include firmware version control and periodic preventive maintenance and will also need to be able to recommend, demonstrate, and implement technologies to help expand, upgrade, and increase efficiencies to the current environment.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• CompTIA Security+
• Computing Environment (CE) Certification (i.e., MCSE, Server+, CCNA, RedHat, Palo, etc.) or ability to obtain.
• Active DoD Secret Security Clearance.
• Experience in Computer Science or IT.
• Five or more years' experience as a Windows Systems Administrator or Engineer designing, installing, and maintaining Citrix Xenapp, NetScaler Gateway, Citrix Storefront, and Citrix Director.
• Three more years' experience in automating assigned tasks utilizing powershell.
• Three or more years' installing, configuration, maintaining, and troubleshooting complex applications and websites IIS, Apache, etc.
• Three or more years' experience working in an environment with complex networking solutions with senior level fundamental knowledge in networking principles (TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, SMTP, SNMP).
• Strong interpersonal skills and willingness to be a team player.

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent years of experience.
• Three or more years' experience supporting Cybersecurity patch management and Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIG), SRG, RMF, SCAV, and Cyber Operational Readiness Assessments (CORA).
• Three or more years' experience managing enterprise level Active Directory Structures.
• Three or more years' experience creating and maintaining complex MS Group Policy implementations.
• Three or more years' experience creating, maintaining, following Standard Operating Procedures for repeatable processes, disaster recovery, and common problem resolution.
• Three or more years' experience configuring and maintaining key services such as DNS, SFTP, SMTP, and NTP.

JANUS Research Group provides reasonable accommodation so that qualified applicants with a disability may participate in the selection process. Please advise us of any accommodations you request to express interest in a position by e-mailing: Judy Pagac, Chief Human Resources Officer at View email address on click.appcast.io or calling View phone number on click.appcast.io. Thank you for considering a career with JANUS Research Group.