Infrastructure Engineer Citrix, office based working Citrix Infrastructure Engineer responsible for design, build, configuration, and ongoing improvement of enterprise Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops platforms, ensuring the delivery of secure, resilient, and high-performance digital workspace services. This would suit an experienced engineer with strong hands-on implementation and optimisation of Citrix infrastructure. Involved in translating architectural designs into stable, scalable operational solutions through standardised builds. Ensuring best-practice configuration, and automation. Working closely with architecture, network, cloud, security, and end-user computing teams, the engineer supports reliable access to business-critical applications and desktops across on-premises and hybrid environments. Experience collaborating with architecture, network, cloud, security, and end-user computing teams. This is an excellent opportunity working for a well-established successful award-winning MSP. You will work to maintain platform stability, enhance user experience, and driving continuous improvement across the Citrix estate to meet performance, security, and availability requirements. • Degree or equivalent experience in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline. • Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops in an enterprise environment- resilient Citrix environments. • ITIL-based service management and operational best practices. • Proven experience in a hands-on Infrastructure Engineer, EUC Engineer, or similar role supporting enterprise platforms. • Extensive experience building, configuring, and supporting Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops, including: • Delivery Controllers, • StoreFront, • Citrix Gateway • Strong documentation skills, including creation and maintenance of build standards and operational procedures. Desirable Citrix certifications: CCA-V / CCA-D CCP-V / CCP-D ITIL Foundation certification. Automation and scripting (e.g. PowerShell, Citrix APIs). Profile management and user experience optimisation technologies (e.g. FSLogix, Citrix Profile Management). Monitoring and analytics tools (e.g. Citrix Director, ControlUp, or equivalent). VDI alternatives or coexistence platforms (e.g. Azure Virtual Desktop, VMware Horizon).
Overview Fuel Recruitment is working with a leading technology organisation that is expanding its infrastructure and automation capability. They are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to help design, deploy and optimise secure, resilient platforms across internal and customer environments. The role is focused on automation, observability and taking new solutions from proof‑of‑concept through to full production. This position is offered on a hybrid basis, with three days per week on-site. Key Responsibilities \* Deliver, upgrade and maintain core platforms, systems and automation. \* Develop and support monitoring and management tooling to ensure strong observability. \* Collaborate with engineers, developers and operations teams to design and harden resilient platforms. \* Architect, design and deploy proof‑of‑concepts and introduce new technologies into production. \* Conduct security risk and vulnerability assessments, ensuring systems are hardened and compliant. \* Build and maintain automation tooling using modern SRE and DevOps practices. \* Diagnose and resolve performance issues across Linux, containers, IaC and related technologies. \* Produce and maintain high‑quality documentation and support the wider team. Key Skills / Experience \* Strong Linux and Windows OS administration experience (e.g., Ubuntu). \* Scripting capability in Bash, Python, PHP or PowerShell. \* Experience with automation and IaC tools such as Ansible, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines and Git. \* Experience working with Azure or similar cloud environments. \* Understanding of Desired State Configuration and broader IaC principles. \* Excellent analytical and problem‑solving skills. \* Ability to work across multiple concurrent projects in a fast‑paced environment. Desirable Skills \* Experience with IaC development life cycles and best practices. \* Awareness of security best practices and secure configuration. \* DSC/Ansible, ARM Templates or Terraform experience. \* Linux (RHEL/CentOS/Ubuntu) and Windows Server (2019/2022). \* Experience with COTS installation, configuration and automation. \* Docker/Podman and Kubernetes or Swarm orchestration. \* GitLab, JIRA and Azure/Azure Stack Hub. \* Monitoring tools such as Nagios or Splunk. \* Strong documentation skills (e.g., Confluence). \* Experience supporting large-scale platforms and advocating SRE/DevOps principles. \* Understanding of Agile working practices. \* Ability to collaborate effectively with project managers, support teams and customers. Security Clearance Due to the nature of the work, candidates must be UK sole nationals and eligible to obtain UK Security Clearance
Ready to automate, innovate and make a real impact?
Do you want to build reliable, scalable systems that make a real difference to millions of people? Do you want to work at a certified B Corp with an inclusive and learning culture as part of a diverse team of great people?
If so, Opencast could be the place for you. We’re a growing tech consultancy that creates user-centred solutions with purpose for our clients in government, healthcare and purpose-driven businesses. Working in DevOps, you’ll build and maintain the systems that let teams respond quickly to needs. You’llwork on high-impact projects, helping to build reliable, scalable systems. We align work to industry-recognised roles such as Build & Release Engineer (BRE), Platform Engineer (PLE) or Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) and, where needed, to more specialised areas such as security, cloud hosting, infrastructure or networking.
What’s life like as a DevOps consultant at Opencast?
At Opencast, we love to keep things simple, and we love automation.
It’s not the same as your standard Devops Consultant job. Depending on your client’s needs, you’ll take on a range of roles. These will include:
- Taking the lead on responding to outages, triaging issues, balancing stakeholder priorities/concerns, and keeping communication channels open with all parties.
- Developing, and implementing continuous deployment solutions that help our clients to deliver software faster and more efficiently.
- Collaborating with our clients to understand their ways of working and will have an enthusiasm to learn new tools and technologies as needed.
- Contributing within Opencast communities.
- Ensure that work is carried out in accordance with Opencast’s quality, environmental, and information security policies and procedures, as well as applicable customer policies, standards, and procedures while working on client.
We care about building things right. We believe in good devops practices and keeping things simple. We want to support you as much as we can on interiorising our approach to devops engineering and you supporting others.
- We are proud consultants who combine our own experience and approach with our company values.
- We are comfortable with new tech. We are empowered, cloud native, vendor agnostic devops engineers. We are empathetic, patient and care about quality.
- We know when to pick our battles and how to manage expectations. We are humble, inclusive team players that listen and collaborate, with zero egos!
- We’re always willing to teach and help others (inside or outside of our team). And we’re always willing to learn.
- It’s a varied job that keeps you super technical and excited.
Salary:
- £50,000 - £60,000
Some of the benefits our offer includes:
- A competitive pension, health cash plan, share options and discretionary bonus.
- Flexible hours and 25 days’ holiday.
- People to support you every step of the way.
Where you’ll work:
- Your working time at Opencast will be split between multiple locations, including from our HQ and hub locations, client site or home. Travel is part of life at Opencast, and takes in account requirements of your work, our clients and your team.
We include you:
- We welcome candidates from all identities, attributes, ways of thinking and backgrounds to thrive in a career at Opencast. Our aim is for the diversity of our people to be reflected in the solutions we deliver, to help create a fairer society for all.
Interview:
- Job interviews are on Microsoft Teams. We’ll make any adjustments to help you.