Job Type

: Contract

Duration:

6 months

Location

: Remote

- Scope confirmation: Work with the Citrix administrators to confirm application scope, user personas and how users log in to each application.

- Login testing: Test the WorkSpaces Applications and browser streaming to confirm the logon flow and what end users will actually see. Record findings that feed the SSO design.

- Low-level design: Co-author the fleet and image specification, including sizing for 43 servers and 8 applications.

- Build patterns: Define Terraform build patterns and the AWS Systems Manager (SSM) patching and image pipeline design, working with the Landing Zone team.

- Session settings: Contribute to the session policy, storage persistence and SSO configuration specification.

- Support the Landing Zone team as they deploy fleets, VPC endpoints, domain join, SAML SSO, user pools and session policies to the agreed design.

- Help build the image pipeline and write the operational runbooks that will be handed over to the Operate team.

- Support platform validation and security sign-off.

- Image builds: Build, package and optimize application images for each wave (about 14 to 15 servers per wave), including SAP GUI.

- Testing: Run functional and smoke testing, and support user acceptance testing (UAT) with the client's application owners.

- Cutover: Plan and carry out cutovers with the migration execution pods, then provide hypercare and fix issues after go-live.

- Handover: Keep image build notes and runbooks up to date so the migration pods and Operate team can maintain the images.

- Help produce the as-is and to-be login storyboard and end-user job aids.



Explain technical changes in plain, user-focused language.

Required Qualifications

- 5+ years in end-user computing or application virtualization, including at least 3 years delivering Citrix Virtual Apps (XenApp) published applications.

- Hands-on delivery experience with AWS WorkSpaces Applications / Amazon AppStream 2.0, including image builders, fleets, stacks, application settings persistence and home folders.

- Valuable working knowledge of Windows Server, Active Directory domain join, Group Policy, DNS and application packaging, installation and troubleshooting.

- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred) and AWS Systems Manager for patching and automation.

- Understanding of SAML 2.0 identity federation (for example Entra ID / Azure AD or ADFS) and how it affects the end-user login experience.

- Good working knowledge of AWS networking (VPCs, subnets, security groups, VPC endpoints).

- Proven experience with wave-based migrations, including test planning, cutover runbooks and rollback.

- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate or a higher AWS certification.

Citrix Certified

Associate/Professional – Virtualization (CCA-V/CCP-V).

- Experience publishing SAP GUI or other thick-client enterprise applications in streamed or virtualized environments.

- Experience with AWS image pipeline automation (for example EC2 Image Builder or scripted image builder workflows).

- Experience with certificate-based authentication for streamed desktops and applications.

- Experience working in Crown corporation, public sector or unionized environments where changes to the end-user experience need careful change

📌 AWS AppStream 2.0 / Citrix Migration Engineer (Canada)
🏢 Quality IT Resourcing
📍 Canada