Overview
Senior VDI Engineer
Date: 12 Dec 2024
Location:
Singapore, Singapore
Company:
Singtel Group
At Singtel, our mission is to Empower Every Generation. We are dedicated to fostering an equitable and forward-thinking work environment where our employees experience a strong sense of Belonging, to make meaningful Impact and Grow both personally and professionally. By joining Singtel, you will be part of a caring, inclusive and diverse workforce that creates positive impact and a sustainable future for all.
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The Senior Engineer, VDI Services 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.
Responsible for the performance, end to end support, availability and service level of the IT Workplace VDI (E.g. Citrix Platform)
Make an Impact by:
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.
Rewards that Go Beyond:
Full suite of health and wellness benefits
Ongoing training and development programs
Internal mobility opportunities
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We are committed to a safe and healthy environment for our employees & customers and will require all prospective employees to be fully vaccinated.
About Singtel
Headquartered in Singapore, Singtel has 140 years of operating experience and played a pivotal role in the country’s development as a major communications hub. Optus, our subsidiary in Australia, is a leader in integrated telecommunications, constantly raising the bar in innovative products and services.
We are also strategically invested in leading companies in Asia and Africa, including Bharti Airtel (India, South Asia and Africa), Telkomsel (Indonesia), Globe Telecom (the Philippines) and Advanced Info Service (Thailand). We work closely with our associates, leveraging our scale in networks, customer reach and extensive operational experience to lead and shape the communications industry.
Together, the Group serves over 700 million mobile customers around world. Singtel is one of the largest listed Singapore companies on the Singapore Exchange by market capitalisation.
The Group has a vast network of offices throughout Asia Pacific, Europe and the USA, and employs more than 23,000 staff worldwide.