About The Position

We are seeking an experienced Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) Tech Lead to design, implement, and optimize enterprise-scale AVD environments. This role involves leading technical teams, ensuring secure and scalable deployments, and driving cost efficiency across virtual desktop infrastructure.

Skill Required

Experience in Automating Infrastructure deployment
Nerdio Manager for Enterprise experience.
DevOps mindset: CI/CD, Infrastructure-as-Code, automated golden image pipelines
Familiarity with Microsoft Intune and M365 stack.
Strong analytical skills for performance tuning, cost optimization, and root-cause analysis

Selection Criteria

Key Responsibilities:

Lead design and implementation of AVD host pools, application groups, workspaces, and session hosts.
Lead a team of Cloud engineers and work with MSP to ensure reliability and resiliency of the AVD environment; execute lifecycle and functional upgrade of changes
Develop best practices, maintain architecture documentation, and implement security and compliance hardening.
Architect and deploy autoscaling, golden image pipelines, and IaC using Ansible/Terraform.
Automate deployment and management workflows via PowerShell, Ansible Playbooks, or Nerdio Manager.
Implement cost optimization strategies for AVD environments and conduct regular reviews to propose cost-saving measures.
Solid understanding of FSLogix, Azure Files/NetApp, and profile containerization
Strong Azure networking and identity (AD/Azure AD, SSO) expertise
Demonstrated leadership in managing mid-sized technical team
Experience in client-facing consulting, requirements gathering, and architectural reviews
Ensure work items are documented, assigned, and complaint with ADO Boards standards for visibility & traceability.
Experience with various architecture styles, design patterns and best practices for software development.
Experience evaluating technology options, and modern architecture trade-off analysis
Knowledge of API Protocols (REST, SOAP,)
Knowledge of Azure Services (App Services, Functions, Azure DevOps)

Teamwork And Communication Skill

Demonstrates the ability to effectively work in a team environment, can work across functions to verify requirements and align on business objectives.

Demonstrates influential leadership through ability in driving product design and architecture, and adherence to IT engineering standards and architecture maturity.

Excellent verbal and written communication skills and demonstrates the ability to effectively work asynchronously across time zones.

Strong track record of keeping up to date with industry trends. Experience with the growth of others capabilities.

Business Acumen

Demonstrated experience supporting complex AVD Environments and support global user base

Demonstrated ability to quickly gain knowledge in business domains, data, workflows and processes in which the Virtual solutions are being deployed

Chevron ENGINE supports global operations, supporting business requirements across the world. Accordingly, the work hours for employees will be aligned to support business requirements. The standard work week will be Monday to Friday. Working hours are 8:00am to 5:00pm or 1:30pm to 10:30pm.