AVD Consultant – Contractual

• Serve as technical owner for Kaufman Rossin’s migration from Citrix DaaS on Nutanix to Azure Virtual Desktop managed through Nerdio
• Validate the existing AVD architecture against Microsoft and Nerdio best practices
• Document findings and prioritize remediation for architecture, identity, networking, security, and data protection gaps
• Own golden image building, versioning, and patching
• Define application delivery approaches using MSIX app attach, baked-in images, or packaged applications
• Provide guidance for legacy applications that do not fit cleanly into AVD
• Right-size host pools and tune Nerdio auto-scale settings for performance and cost
• Optimize US–India latency, connection quality, and profile/storage performance
• Evaluate Reserved Instances and Azure Savings Plans
• Build scaling schedules aligned to US and India working hours
• Recommend storage tiering and ongoing cost governance practices
• Plan and run pilot groups with feedback loops before each migration wave
• Partner with IT and business leaders on user communication and support readiness
• Define and test rollback plans
• Recommend the Citrix/AVD parallel-run period and lead production cutover and Citrix decommissioning
• Set up alerting and dashboards in Nerdio and Azure Monitor
• Write and maintain operational runbooks for support, incident response, and scaling events
• Define health checks and escalation paths
• Deliver documented handoff for every component built or changed
• Run working sessions with KR IT staff to enable independent operation of the environment
• Identify automation and process improvement opportunities

• 5+ years of experience in end-user computing, virtual desktop, or cloud infrastructure, including at least 2 years of hands-on Azure Virtual Desktop in production
• Experience migrating from Citrix DaaS, Citrix on-premises, or a comparable VDI platform, ideally for 500+ users
• Hands-on experience with Nerdio Manager for Enterprise, including auto-scale, image management, and host pool administration
• Strong Azure networking and security skills, including virtual networks, private endpoints, private DNS, and Entra ID Conditional Access
• Experience with image management and application delivery, including MSIX app attach, FSLogix, and golden image patching
• Familiarity with Azure cost management, including Reservations, Savings Plans, and scaling schedules
• Experience with Azure Monitor and alerting for AVD environments
• Ability to design and execute pilot, cutover, and rollback plans for large user populations
• Experience supporting globally distributed users, ideally across the US and India
• Excellent written and spoken English for stakeholder communication, technical documentation, and training
• Microsoft AZ-140 preferred
• Citrix or Nutanix experience a plus

• Work-Life Balance
• People First Company
• Hybrid work policy
• Working directly with peers in the US
• Equal opportunity workplace committed to diversity, inclusion, and acceptance