Senior Citrix Engineer at Wintrust Financial Corporation in Rosemont, Illinois

Job Description:

Founded in 1991 with the idea to be the alternative to the big banks, Wintrust has since grown into a financial services company with more than $45 billion in assets, headquartered in Rosemont, Illinois. Through our multiple companies and divisions, we provide traditional community banking and commercial banking services, wealth management solutions, commercial and life insurance premium financing, mortgage origination, and short-term accounts receivable financing and certain administrative services, such as data processing of payrolls, billing, and treasury management services. We provide community-oriented personal and business banking services to customers located in the greater Chicagoland area, northwest Indiana, and southern Wisconsin through more than 175 community bank locations.

Job title:

Senior Citrix Engineer

Location:

Rosemont, IL

Duties include:

• Design and engineer the Citrix environment including XenDesktop, XenApp, NetScaler, StoreFront, and Workspace




• Engineering & Administration of servers and AD system; provide support to everyday operations




• Coordinate with various groups and perform troubleshooting on all production problems and provide resolution




• Establishing & Implementing Infrastructure Standards




• Perform research on system technology and provide resolution to complex issues




• Maintain metrics necessary to support KPI and KRI reporting related to the area of responsibility




• Monitor all system alerts and assist in resolving complex issues in system hardware and software




• Comprehension of common network concepts: ACI, VLAN, Switching, OSI layers




• Work with contacting third parties for support




• System capacity analysis and planning




• Capable of training users in complex topics, making presentations to internal groups




• Write intricate system and user documentation




• Write and explain purchase justifications




• Help Service Desk team with advanced tickets.




• Interact with customers and staff at the technical level, as required




• Provide after-hours support for Infrastructure related emergencies as well as occasional weekend maintenance




• Exhibit a broad base of knowledge of configuring and troubleshooting server (HP Synergy, DL series), Storage (Nimble, and Netapp) infrastructure, and operating systems to include Windows, Linux, VMware, SAN, Backup, DR/BC, O365, Intune, Unified Communication, and Azure




• Engage with the EA function to ensure that designs are in line with the needs of current and future platform requirements




• Create, implement, and oversee policies and procedures to ensure consistent provisioning, uptime, regulatory compliance, and data protection




• Serve as the technical lead for resolving complex incidents and problems related to Windows and Storage systems




• Follow policies and procedures for change and incident management.

Job requirements:

Education: Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Business Data Systems, or related field and 5 years of related work experience.

Skills to include:

• 5 years of experience in large-scale Citrix environments, where reliability and performance are critical.




• 5 years of experience with SCCM, WSUS, and Windows patching processes




• 5 years of experience with Windows PKI, Certificates




• 5 years of experience with physical and virtual servers/workstations




• 5 years of experience with large datacenter operations to include power management, rack organization, networking, and storage




• 5 years of experience with enterprise-level storage and standards




• 5 years of experience with remediating security audits, and protecting the system against intrusion




• 5 years of experience designing, implementing, managing and migrating VDI environments using Citrix technologies




• 5 years of experience implementing, deploying and supporting Citrix XenDesktop and Citrix Provisioning Services




• 5 years of Citrix Netscaler experience with implementing, deploying extensive HA configuration, GSLB configuration, Content filtering/switching, Compression, Rewriting/URL transformations, and Caching (Static/Dynamic)




• 5 years of Citrix Application Streaming/Provisioning




• 5 years of Citrix Platform Upgrade/Migration Experience




• 5 years of experience with Remote Access Technologies




• 5 years of Active Directory related work experience




• 3 years experience with PowerShell scripting




• 3 years experience with VMWare technologies, and VMware scripting (Power-CLI & others)




• 3 years experience with Windows Server and Active Directory including Local and Group Policy, Security hardening and Remediation




• 3 years experience with Forests, Domains, Trusts.




• 3 years experience with TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, LDAP

Wintrust Financial Corporation, including community banking and financial services subsidiaries, is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, citizenship status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expressions, genetic information, marital status, age, disability, or status as a covered veteran or any other characteristic protected by law.