07 May
Senior Team Manager, Lead Virtual Endpoint Engineer
Texas, Westlake , 76262 Westlake USA

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Your OpportunitySchwab's purpose is to help everyone become financially fit. Over the last thirty years, Schwab has grown from a brokerage house into one of the nation's leading financial institutions. The Enterprise Technology & Infrastructure organization at Schwab is comprised of centralized teams that support Schwab business goals through the delivery of technology, operations, projects, business continuity and offshore management. The focus is on maximizing operating leverage by integrating functions, increasing productivity, and gaining efficiencies in order to better position Schwab to compete in the marketplace and to reinvest in areas that matter most to our clients. Virtual Endpoint Engineering, as part of STS provides Virtualization platforms for over 32k of our Internal end users and external clients. The role focuses on leading the Virtualization Engineering team to consolidate offerings and migrate all users to a centralized set of solutions. What you are good atT he ideal candidate would have deep knowledge of solutions in the virtualization endpoint space, and its infrastructure. They would provide a willingness to drive i ntegration of existing processes for physical desktops (provisioning and config management) partnering with other teams within engineering. Previous experience on consolidation of Virtual brokering, platforms, and management of teams with diverse skillsets.

  • Complete the renovation and full build out of a multi-domain, OnPrem and Cloud platform.
  • Leading the Virtual team in creation of a unifying brokering layer across all platforms including the completion of AVD and its Terraform code.
  • Continuing the development of code between Azure and Citrix, once completed with both Virtual and Cloud platforms, orchestrate the migration of all users to the new platforms while drawing down the old.
  • Additionally, the role will be supporting an evolving Disaster Recovery solution while strengthening high demand capacity.
  • Continual improvement means ushering several concurrent pilots being tested (currently non persistent solutions and W365) and better synergies between our Thin Client endpoints and VDI.
  • Team Leadership from the middle is needed in this role due to the sheer number of diverse platforms and team members who operate them.
  • The role requires expert knowledge of Citrix Brokering, Citrix CVAD solution, along with strength in AVD and Terraform.
  • The knowledge is not contained to maintaining the solution but requires experience in establishing new environments.
  • Familiarity with VMware Horizon layer, and interest in W365 will help the candidate guide the best course of action.

Responsibilities will include:
  • Design and implement Virtual Infrastructure solutions across multi-domain environment.
  • Consolidate a multi-vendor, multi-platform, multi domain environment leveraging synergies and increase resiliency.
  • Provide reporting of Virtual platform health and ensure availability of solution.
  • Manage VDI consumption based on trends matching year-over-year growth and spikes in demand.
  • Expand platform features to encompass Cloud VDI.
  • Build out alternatives in Profile management, application layering, privilege management on scale.
  • Advocate for user experience improvement on Virtual solutions, tempering with cost and security needs.
  • Operationalize standard support items, focusing engineers onto innovation and not maintenance tasks.
  • Point of contact for peers in security, identity, infrastructure, vendor roadmap features.
  • Closely partner and interact with product vendors to help drive vendor roadmaps based on our requirements.
  • Build internal roadmaps based on product capabilities and business requirements.
What you have
  • 7 - 10 years' experience in Building Virtualization workstation infrastructure, VDI management, design, and support.
  • Experience building Citrix-based OnPrem solutions.
  • Expert knowledge of establishing Citrix CVAD, Citrix Persistent, Citrix DaaS, Azure Virtual Desktop Cloud, VMWare Horizon are desirable.
  • Knowledge of how to design to limit failure domain and maximize resiliency.
  • Proved skill in Terraform coding.
  • Strong proven experience in establishing AVD.
  • Very Strong Knowledge of Configuration Management and Brokering Solution.
  • Familiar leading Scrum / Agile Management projects.
  • College degree or equivalent experience.
  • Strong customer service skills.
  • The ability to work well within small teams and foster relationships with our technology partners.
  • Ability to analyze system issues and requests, and quickly identify the technology issue and appropriate solution.
  • Ability to work both independently and as part of a team to troubleshoot a wide variety of desktop application issues and application dependencies.
  • Strong communication skills with both written and verbal.
  • Strong knowledge of application troubleshooting, testing and automation tools.

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