Adidas PLATFORM ENGINEER M/F/D VIRTUALIZATION MS AZURE VIRTUAL DESKTOP 

India, Haryana, Gurugram 

561663930

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

The role builds, maintains and improves capabilities, technologies and systems to provide applications in a virtual environment based on MS Azure Virtual Desktop Technology.

Specialist advice

• Actively maintains knowledge in one or more identifiable specialisms.
• Provides detailed and specific advice regarding the building, running and maintaining of an AVD based virtual environment.
• Testing. Reviews requirements and specifications and defines test conditions.
• Designs test cases and test scripts under own direction, mapping back to pre-determined criteria, recording and reporting outcomes.
• Analyses and reports test activities and results.
• Identifies and reports issues and risks associated with own work.
• Collaborates with other specialists, where appropriate.

Emerging technology monitoring

• Supports monitoring of the external environment and assessment of emerging technologies to evaluate the potential impacts, threats, and opportunities to the organization.
• Contributes to the creation of reports, technology road mapping and the sharing of knowledge and insights

• Set up and configure AVD environments, including host pools and session hosts
• Manage user access and permissions, including assigning users to appropriate host pools and managing profiles.
• Regularly monitor the performance of the AVD environment, addressing any issues that arise and ensuring optimal performance.
• Implement security measures to protect data and resources and managing access controls.

• Optimize resource allocation and scaling based on user demand and performance metrics to ensure cost-effectiveness.
• Establish and maintain backup and recovery procedures to safeguard data and ensure business continuity.
• Regularly update and patch operating systems and applications to ensure security and compliance.
• Maintain and supervise detailed documentation of configurations, processes, and changes to support troubleshooting and future upgrades.
• Provide 3rd level support for users experiencing issues, troubleshoot problems, and coordinate with Microsoft support as needed.
• Monitor and manage costs associated with the AVD deployment, optimize expenses.

• Reviews requirements and specifications and defines test conditions.
• Designs test cases and test scripts under own direction, mapping back to pre-determined criteria, recording and reporting outcomes.
• Analyses and reports test activities and results.
• Identifies and reports issues and risks associated with own work.

Technologies

• MS Clients OS ( Single- & Multiuser )
• Intune
• Azure ( Architecture, Services, Best practices, AVD Components, Networking Concepts, AAD )
• Windows Server & RDS
• Scripting Power Shell / Azure CLI & Automation

Key Relationships

• Global IT
• Tech Core
• Business Stakeholders
• Vendors ( Microsoft, external Service provider Operations )

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• Four-year college or university degree with focus on Business Administration or IT or related areas, or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Proficient spoken and written command of English
• At least 5-year experience in IT
• 2 years of experience in relevant area
• Understanding of different culture
• Managed critical elements and cross functional and regional projects