Virtual Desktop Engineer II (VDI)

Location: Pocatello, Idaho, United States; hybrid workplace. Office and datacenter work is required, including occasional team lifting of 50+ lbs and sitting or standing. Current Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility and the ability to obtain and maintain a CI Polygraph are required.

Salary: $130,000–$150,000 per year.

Company

hirify.global delivers adaptive technology solutions supporting national security and critical civilian missions.

What you will do

• Design, deploy, train users on, and provide ongoing support for VDI solutions within FBI environments.
• Engineer and maintain Microsoft OS baseline images for FBI endpoints in compliance with DISA STIG and FBI security standards.
• Support mixed Windows and Linux environments, server virtualization platforms, and final-tier issue resolution.
• Automate provisioning, patching, and maintenance with PowerShell and other tools; implement IaC and orchestration to improve deployment speed and standardization.
• Monitor and optimize system and application performance, while maintaining backup, recovery, redundancy, security, availability, and user experience requirements.
• Collaborate with vendors and internal IT teams, maintain documentation and dashboards, and provide support materials, knowledge transfer, and training for government staff.

Requirements

• Current Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility and the capability to obtain and maintain a CI Polygraph.
• At least 6 years of experience designing and implementing desktop virtualization, application virtualization, and virtual server platforms.
• Experience in large-scale mission-critical IT environments.
• Ability to support office and datacenter working conditions, including sitting, standing, and occasional team lifting of 50+ lbs.

Nice to have

• Bachelor’s degree.
• Experience with Omnissa Horizon, Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops, VMware vSphere, and Nutanix.
• PowerShell, Python, provisioning automation, IaC orchestration, and system-efficiency scripting experience.
• VMware Certified Professional – Desktop and Mobility, Omnissa Certified Administrator, Omnissa Certified Engineer, Citrix Certified Associate – Virtualization, or Nutanix Platform Professional certification.
• Active Directory and GPO Management experience.
• Experience with vSAN, Fibre Channel, NFS, MECM, MSCSP, Microsoft Office Suite, load balancers, Microsoft SQL, and application virtualization.

Culture & Benefits

• Health insurance, life insurance, paid time off, holiday pay, short-term and long-term disability coverage, and retirement benefits, depending on position.
• Learning and development opportunities and optional benefit elections.
• Culture centered on being happy, helpful, honest, humble, hungry, and driven.
• Collaborative environment focused on teamwork, mutual respect, continuous improvement, and national security missions.