Senior Citrix EngineerLeidos
Description
Leidos is currently seeking a Citrix Engineer to join our team in Arlington, VA. This position is 100% on-site. A TS/SCI security clearance is required for consideration.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Design and deploy robust, scalable, and highly available Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops (CVAD) solutions, both on-premise and in cloud environments (Azure/AWS).
- Serve as the subject matter expert on the entire Citrix stack, engineering solutions for Citrix Cloud, ADC (NetScaler), StoreFront, and Workspace Environment Management (WEM).
- Engineer and automate infrastructure management, deployment, and configuration processes using PowerShell to enhance system reliability and operational efficiency.
- Lead the integration of security controls and compliance standards (DoD/DISA) into the Citrix architecture, performing vulnerability assessments and implementing hardening configurations on Citrix ADC.
- Develop and maintain detailed engineering documentation, including system architecture diagrams, deployment runbooks, and disaster recovery plans.
- Proactively monitor, analyze, and optimize the performance, capacity, and latency of the Citrix infrastructure, performing root cause analysis and engineering long-term solutions for complex issues.
- Lead critical infrastructure projects, including platform upgrades, data center migrations, and cloud service integration, ensuring minimal disruption and maximum performance.
- Design and implement user profile and data management strategies using ProfileUnity, Profile Management, and User Layering to optimize user experience and logon times.
- Familiarity with Citrix and Liquidware integration.
Required Qualifications:
- 8+ years of hands-on experience designing and building solutions with CVAD (on-prem and Citrix Cloud) and Citrix ADC (NetScaler) in a high-availability configuration.
- Bachelor’s Degree in a technical discipline and10+ years of experience engineering and administering enterprise-scale Citrix environments. (Additional relevant experience may be substituted for a degree).
- Demonstrated expertise in scripting and automation with PowerShell.
- Deep technical knowledge of Windows Server OS, Active Directory, and Group Policy management in a virtualized environment.
- Active TS/SCI security clearance.
- Must hold a DoD 8570 IAT Level II certification.
Preferred Engineering Expertise:
- Proven experience with performance tuning and optimization tools for virtualized environments.
- Prior experience engineering solutions for DISA and its mission partners.
- TS/SCI with Counterintelligence (CI) Polygraph.
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Original Posting:
June 26, 2026For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.
