VDI Solutions Architect (Preferably Saudi's)

Job Purpose:

The VDI Solutions Architect will lead the end-to-end design, capacity planning and roadmap for enterprise VDI and workspace services across on-prem, hybrid and cloud models. You’ll partner with business stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable, secure VDI architectures and govern standards, best practices and automation frameworks.

3. Key Responsibilities:

Solution Design & Roadmap

• Drive the creation of High-Level (HLD) and Low-Level (LLD) design artifacts for VDI and workspace services.
• Conduct capacity planning, sizing exercises and TCO/ROI analyses for new VDI projects.

Platform Strategy & Governance

• Define and enforce standards, best practices and naming conventions for VDI builds, images, and policies.
• Establish a governance model for change control, security posture and lifecycle management.

Automation & Integration

• Architect infrastructure-as-code (Terraform/PowerShell/Ansible) frameworks for repeatable VDI deployments.
Integrate VDI with identity, endpoint management and cloud orchestration platforms (e.g., Azure AD, Okta, Workspace ONE).

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Performance Optimization & Capacity Management

• Lead performance tuning, capacity forecasting and proactive scaling plans.
• Develop monitoring dashboards and runbooks for trend analysis and cost optimization.

Cross-Functional Leadership

• Facilitate workshops with application, networking and security teams to align on interoperability requirements.
• Mentor junior engineers and review technical designs for compliance with enterprise architecture.

4. Required Skills & Qualifications

Retain existing “Strong expertise in VMware/Omnissa Horizon…NSX…” items, then add:

Category

Architect-Level Skills

Architecture & Design

• Designing multi-site, hybrid-cloud VDI topologies (on-prem ➔ Azure/AWS).
• Capacity planning, sizing and cost modeling.

Automation & Infrastructure as Code

• Terraform / Ansible / PowerShell scripting to provision and scale VDI stacks.
• CI/CD pipelines for image builds and patch management.

Security & Compliance

• Defining micro segmentation strategies (NSX-T/Firewalld).
• Integrating VDI with enterprise IAM (SAML, OAuth2).

Cloud & Hybrid Integration

• Hands-on experience with Horizon Cloud on Azure/AWS.
• Designing DR and burst-to-cloud scenarios.

Performance & Capacity Management

• vROPS custom dashboards and predictive analytics.
• Storage IOPS/QoS tuning for non-persistent & persistent desktop pools.

Leadership & Governance

• Establishing architecture review boards and change control processes.
• Mentoring and peer-review of HLD/LLD documents.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Education
• • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• Experience:
• • Preferred banking experience
  • 10+ years of experience in private cloud infrastructure engineering or similar roles.
  • 5+ years leading VDI design and architecture engagements.
  • Proven track record of managing large-scale private cloud environments.