Virtual Desktop Engineer
Guidehouse - Washington, DC
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Job Family : Systems Engineering Travel Required : Up to 10% Clearance Required : Active Top Secret (TS) We are seeking a highly skilled Virtual Desktop Engineer to support secure virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) environments across federal programs. This role is responsible for engineering, deploying, optimizing, and maintaining virtual desktop and application delivery platformsu2014including Azure Virtual Desktop, Citrix Virtual Apps/Desktops, and VMware Horizonu2014to enable mission-critical operations in secure federal environments. The ideal candidate brings strong hands-on experience with VDI platforms, endpoint management, virtualization, and cloud-integrated virtual desktop architectures. What You Will Do + Deploy, configure, and support Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) solutions across onu2011premises, hybrid, and cloud environments (Azure/AWS). + Administer and optimize Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) , Citrix Virtual Apps/Desktops , or VMware Horizon environments supporting federal user communities. + Manage session hosts, master images, golden images, application layers, profile containers, and policy configurations. + Troubleshoot complex issues across VDI stacks including connectivity, performance, application access, profile persistence, and user experience. + Support secure configuration baselines, STIG alignment, patching, and compliance documentation. + Implement automation for provisioning, scaling, monitoring, and cost optimization across VDI environments. + Collaborate with networking, cloud, cybersecurity, and server engineering teams to ensure secure and highu2011performance desktop delivery. + Assist with VDI migrations, modernization projects, cloud transitions, and integration with identity platforms (Azure AD/Entra). + Maintain system documentation, architecture diagrams, change records, and operational runbooks. + Provide Tier 2/Tier 3 escalation support and mentor junior engineers as needed. What You Will Need + U.S. Citizenship + An ACTIVE and MAINTAINED
Created: 2026-03-07