Senior Platform Engineer – Citrix (SRE & Reliability Focus)

Náplň práce, právomoci a zodpovednosti:

Join us as a Senior Citrix Platform Engineer and take ownership of our enterprise Citrix Virtual Apps & Desktops platform. You ensure its stability, security, and performance while continuously improving automation, monitoring, and reliability. Working with cross-functional teams, you help deliver a scalable, high-performing virtual workplace and drive ongoing platform improvements using modern engineering practices.

- Design, operate, and continuously improve Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops platform

- Support core components: Delivery Controllers, StoreFront, PVS, NetScaler/ADC, Ivanti UWM

- Manage lifecycle activities (image updates, maintenance, upgrades)

- Collaborate with security on vulnerability management, patching, and remediation

- Troubleshoot complex platform and infrastructure issues

- Analyze incidents and drive reliability improvements

- Contribute to monitoring, observability, and reliability metrics

- Ensure platform availability, performance, and resilience

- Improve efficiency through automation and standardization

- Develop automation using PowerShell, Ansible and Terraform

- Simplify operations and reduce manual effort

- Enhance monitoring with Grafana, Citrix Director, and ControlUp

- Use data and metrics to drive platform improvements

- Define and support reliability indicators (availability, performance, operations)

- Collaborate with infrastructure, workplace, and engineering teams

- Contribute to engineering initiatives and platform improvements

- Promote best practices and knowledge sharing

- Support a culture of ownership, reliability, and continuous improvement

This role is suitable for candidates off all genders.

Zamestnanecké výhody, benefity:

• Hybrid work and flexible hours

• International environment and modern technologies

• Learning & development opportunities

• Career growth and internal mobility

• Banking and pension benefits

• Health and wellness support

• Agile culture and collaborative teams

Informácie o výberovom konaní:
Please send your CV to ladislav.zakalicky@sourcefirstinternational.com

We always have several positions for IT Specialists not only in Slovakia and the Czech Republic, but also on foreign projects.

Požiadavky na zamestnanca:

Technical skills

- Active hands-on experience in the last 5+ years in Citrix Virtual Apps & Desktops (CVAD), including PVS, NetScaler/ADC

tools like ControlUp, Citrix Director, and Ivanti UWM, with solid knowledge of policies, security, performance, and architecture

- Solid infrastructure knowledge across: Windows Server, Active Directory, GPOs, DNS, basic networking concepts

- Active experience with automation combined with strong troubleshooting, analytical skills

- Structured, solution-oriented mindset focused on simplifying systems and improving efficiency

- Platform reliability mindset with interest in operational resilience

- Understanding of SRE principles (metrics, operational excellence)

- Experience with observability/monitoring in large enterprise environments

Professional skills

- Builds reliable systems and thinks ahead about what can go wrong, making sure things keep working and improve over time

- Takes ownership of work from start to finish and works closely with others to get the right outcome for the user

- Keeps things simple, focuses on what matters, and removes unnecessary steps or complexity

- Acts quickly on the most important work, adapts when needed, and learns from feedback

- Supports others, leads by example, and helps create an environment where people can do their best work

- Learns fast, adjusts easily to change, and keeps improving in a fast-moving environment

- Delivers strong results and helps raise the level of the whole team

- Contributes to a positive team culture by being open, respectful, and constructive, and by not tolerating toxic behavior