Be a Part of Something BIG! 

The Senior VDI Engineer is responsible for overall coordination of the Delivery, Operation Support and Implementation of the VDI services to SingTel’s internal stakeholders and users.  The key focus is on leading and delivering quality IT Workspace VDI related services by working together with IT Workspace Transformation Team and IT Workspace End-User Support Team. 

Applying Service Delivery approach to ensure consistent and continuous VDI solutions and technologies are successfully deployed to meet the Technology Infrastructure (TI) strategic objectives.  Possess strong leadership and communication abilities and is able to set realistic goals and implement appropriate plans to guide the team towards achieving those goals. You should be able to address multi-faceted issues effectively and in a collaborative manner.

Make An Impact By

Responsible for the performance, end to end support, availability, and service level of the IT Workplace VDI (Citrix Platform).

General Support related:

• Supports his/her team during L2/L3 diagnosis when technical issues rise in his/her scope of expertise.
• Is aware of the Corporate IT structure so that he/she anticipates interrelationships within the organization.
• Guarantees the production readiness for day to day operations.
• Is available and able to drive technically severity incidents that occur within the scope of their role.
• Actively engages to understand new technologies and technology trends and reviews them with a view to incorporating them into the operations.
• Perform health checks as defined and take respective actions.
• Responsible for service request, change, escalated incidents and other tasks.
• Facilitates collaboration and information sharing team.
• Motivates, encourage team collaboration and sharing of best practices.
• Participates to the department’s activities including brainstorming, team building and other team or transversal actions.
• Fosters innovation mindset.
• Focus on automation and optimization of resources to improve efficiency.
• Procurement – To review hardware maintenance support and procure/renew licenses in an on-going basis.

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) (Citrix Platform):

• Support on all escalated incidents from Level 1 support.
• Tasks and alert management. Respond to critical monitoring alerts including server alerts and system outages.
• Change management – Preparation of roadmaps, execution of Request for Change.
• End to end support for Citrix, VDI.
• Service improvement contributions.
• Problem tickets task actions to identify root cause of issues.
• Assign service request and tasks in timely manner via ServiceNow ticketing tool.
• Generate internal knowledge base articles and issue resolution and maintain Level-1 troubleshooting workflows
• Perform server maintenance and operational procedures
• Manage user profiles and data
• Perform maintenance and environment upgrades
• Review periodic reports of sever health, resource usage, user experience, and overall environment performance
• Review vendor knowledge base articles and newly released updates
• Perform policy-level changes and make Active Directory updates
• Review change control requests that impact the Citrix VDI environment
• Review knowledge base articles and issue resolution scripts for accuracy, compliance, and feasibility
• Provides technical direction, supports services both proactively and reactively to maintain the availability and reliability of system infrastructure in accordance to the SLA
• Documents, reviews, maintains and shares relevant technical information to the team.
• Implements and develops improvements based on best practices.
• Focuses on automation and optimum use of the team to improve efficiency.
• Reviews technology changes to identify potential risks.
• To provide outside of working hours operation support and attend to on-call basis whenever required.

Incident Management:

• Work together with Service Manager on incident resolution and RCA.
• Priority-1 incidents within the targeted system restoration time.
• RCA (Root Cause Analysis): RCA has to be determined for at least 80% of incidents and within timeline SLA.

Skills for Success:

• Degree/Diploma in IT or any related discipline.
• Minimum 4 – 6 years technical hands on working experience in set up, configure and support Citrix VDI through large Enterprise environment.
• Minimum 5 years End User Technology (EUT) related in an enterprise (>2000 staff) with multi-location.
• Proven working experience with Citrix Xenapp 7.x, Xendesktop7.x, Citrix Workspace Virtual App and Desktop 1912 in a Windows 2008 /2012/2016 environment and latest versions of the product VMware
• Experience with Provisioning Services, Hyper-V and NetScaler/ADC platform
• In-depth working knowledge of the Windows environment with at least 3-5 years of Windows administration experience and a strong understanding of network concepts.
• Knowledge of how the following Windows components integrate with Citrix technologies:

• Active Directory Domain Services
• Active Directory Certificate Services
• Policies
• Domain Name System (DNS)
• Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
• Group Policy Objects (GPOs)
• NTFS Permissions
• Authentication and Authorisation
• Knowledge of IIS
• Microsoft Windows Operating Systems
• Roles and features of Windows Server
• Knowledge of Windows File Services clustering
• General networking skills (i.e. routing, switching)
• Knowledge of hypervisors
• Knowledge of shared storage configuration and management
• Citrix XenDesktop
• Citrix XenApp
• Citrix VMware vSphere
• Citrix Provisioning Services
• Citrix NetScaler
• Citrix StoreFront
• Active Directory
• Storage solutions
• Application delivery
• Disaster recovery
• Policies/policy structures and security restrictions
• Licensing (Citrix licensing Microsoft licensing, PKI server management)
• Certificate knowledge (Installation on Netscaler, Servers, generating new certs from local signed)

• Excellent Communication/Interpersonal skills
• Troubleshooting/ Problem Solving/Conduct Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
• Self-motivated
• Able to work autonomously
• Keen attention to detail
• Customer Service Oriented
• Positive Attitude
• Ability and desire to learn new skills & pick up new technologies
• Ability to work in dynamic and fast paced environment

Rewards that Go Beyond

• Full suite of health and wellness benefits 
• Ongoing training and development programs 
• Internal mobility opportunities

Are you ready to say hello to BIG Possibilities?

Take the leap with Singtel to unlock new opportunities and accelerate your growth. Apply now and start your empowering career!