VDI / Server Engineer

About the Position

VDI / Server Engineer

Basel, Basel City, Switzerland

The VDI / Server Engineer is responsible for designing, implementing, and supporting virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), Microsoft-based server platforms, and end-user computing services. The role delivers secure, reliable, and scalable virtual workspaces for users across the organisation, ensuring platform performance, availability, and a consistent user experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain VDI and virtual application platforms.
• Manage virtual desktop images, application delivery, user profiles, and policy configurations.
• Manage VDI capacity, performance, and availability to support a consistent user experience.
• Integrate VDI services with identity, endpoint management, storage, networking, and security platforms.
• Implement secure configuration baselines and access controls.
• Automate image creation, provisioning, configuration, and maintenance activities.
• Monitor VDI and Microsoft server platforms, investigating and resolving performance and availability issues.
• Support patching, upgrades, platform migrations, and lifecycle management.
• Participate in incident, problem, change, and major incident management.
• Maintain technical documentation, design standards, and operating procedures.
• Collaborate with client engineering, network, security, storage, and application teams.
• Contribute to modernisation initiatives and continuous service improvement.

Requirements

Skills and Experience

• Strong experience in designing and supporting enterprise VDI and server environments.
• Knowledge of virtual desktop, application virtualisation, and profile management technologies.
• Experience with virtualisation platforms and their storage and network dependencies.
• In-depth knowledge of Citrix, Windows desktop and server operating systems, Active Directory, and Group Policy.
• Experience with endpoint management, identity integration, and security controls.
• Familiarity with desktop image management, application packaging, and build automation.
• Knowledge of monitoring, user experience analysis, and performance optimisation.
• Strong understanding of platform reliability, security, resilience, and operational excellence.
• Experience participating in incident, problem, change, and lifecycle management.
• Ability to document technical solutions and communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• A collaborative, improvement-focused, and automation-oriented approach to engineering.
• Commitment to continuous learning, professional development, and relevant industry accreditations.

Qualifications and Professional Experience

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience.
• Typically six to ten years of relevant experience, or demonstrable expertise appropriate to the role.

Desirable Experience

• Experience with cloud-hosted or hybrid VDI solutions.
• Understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) concepts.
• Experience coordinating the work of others or contributing to technical projects.

We Offer

• Competitive salary
• Opportunity to work in a dynamic and innovative environment
• Professional development opportunities
• Collaborative and inclusive work culture

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