AVD Consultant – Contractual

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🇮🇳 India – Remote

⏳ Contract/Temporary

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💼 Consultant

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Kaufman Rossin

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501 - 1000 employees

💼 Consulting

💸 Finance

Consulting • Finance

Kaufman Rossin is a professional services firm providing audit, tax, and advisory services to businesses and their leaders, covering a spectrum from inception to succession. Founded in 1962 in Florida, the firm boasts over 500 employees and serves clients across various countries. Their specialties include non-profit audit and tax services, forensic accounting, business valuation, as well as hedge fund and broker dealer audit services. Kaufman Rossin has received numerous awards, including honors for being one of the Best Accounting Firms to Work For.

📋 Description

• 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

🎯 Requirements

• 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

🏖️ Benefits

• 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

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