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Title Virtualisation Consultant Category Development/Engineering City London, England - London, United Kingdom Job Description Virtualisation Consultant

Position Description
If you are looking for a challenge that stretches your talents and you want to make a real difference in
peoples lives, come and help us support the digital transformation of the UK. We need Virtualisation Consultants to work with high profile public and commercial clients, building systems that make the everyday easier.

From public service transformation to cutting-edge commercial projects, our work has a wide reach, helping make the everyday easier, for everyone. When you start your CGI story, not only will you be improving peoples lives, you can be sure well do the same for you. Alongside a competitive salary, we offer you access to our share scheme (3% + 3% matching) making you a member not just an employee.

You also have the option to benefit from private medical and dental insurance, flexible retirement options, childcare vouchers and a cycle to work scheme. As for the future? We work as one team, and are a Top 100 employer. Be a successful part of our story and well support you in taking your career anywhere you want it to go.

Your future duties and responsibilities
You will be part of the End-User Computing Engineering Service and will support the technical team responsible for the design, development, scaling, documentation, building and validation of a virtual desktop solution for a secure client based in Corsham.

Your duties and responsibilities will include:
The design, development, reference building and validation of the clients virtual desktop solutions.
Supporting the scale out and ever greening of the VDI capability across multiple complex multitenancy use cases.
Assisting the design of a disaster recovery and business continuity capability from a virtual desktop and supporting services perspective.
Production and review of all levels of design artefacts.
Supporting wider system testing activities.
Working with Service Management to resolve issues.

Required qualifications to be successful in this role
You will have had hands on experience of the design, development, documentation, building and validation of virtual desktop environments and you also have demonstrable experience working with:
VMWare Horizon
VMware AppVolumes
VMware UEM (or similar user environment management experience)
Windows 10 within a VDI environment including desktop optimization.

It also desirable that you have
Knowledge of the Atlassian toolset (JIRA and Confluence) to record and document work
Experience of delivering in Agile (SAFE4) and Waterfall projects.
Experience of large Virtualisation infrastructure environments that operate at scale.

It would also be great for you to have had experience of working within the public sector, preferably Defence, and ideally with Defence Digital (formerly ISS), delivering accredited secure solutions within the UK Public Sector.

Ideally, you will have had a Computer Science university-based education at Bachelors or Masters Level and will have obtained at least one of the following professional certifications within the last five years:
VMware VCP (Preferably VCP-DTM)
Microsoft MCSA Windows 10 or MCSA Windows Server 2012 (or higher)

Strong communication skills, both written and verbal are also important, as is strong critical thinking and analytical skills to solve problems and propose new ideas.

***You must hold or be willing and eligible to obtain SC clearance for this role***

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Build your career with us.

It is an extraordinary time to be in business. As digital transformation continues to accelerate, CGI is at the center of this changesupporting our clients digital journeys and offering our professionals exciting career opportunities.

At CGI, our success comes from the talent and commitment of our professionals. As one team, we share the challenges and rewards that come from growing our company, which reinforces our culture of ownership. All of our professionals benefit from the value we collectively create.

Be part of building one of the largest independent technology and business services firms in the world.