Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) SME
Salary: £60,000–£70,000
Contract: 12-month FTC (extensions likely)
Location: Fully remote
Clearance: UK Security Clearance (SC) – Required
Why This Role Stands Out
- Play a key role in managing and optimising a large-scale Azure Virtual Desktop estate in a high-profile IT environment.
- Hands-on with AVD, FSLogix, NetApp, Azure identity & networking, and more.
- Opportunity to improve performance, reliability, and user experience across a secure enterprise.
- Fully remote working with contract stability (12-month FTC + extensions).
Role Overview
We’re seeking an Azure Virtual Desktop SME to support and enhance enterprise-wide AVD services. You’ll work within a dedicated team to deliver secure, scalable, and highly available virtual desktop environments for end users across the organisation.
Key Responsibilities
- Support and maintain all aspects of the Azure Virtual Desktop infrastructure.
- Administer host pools, golden images, user/application access, and resource groups.
- Optimise multi-user environments with FSLogix and enterprise storage.
- Ensure high availability and disaster recovery across AVD components.
- Provide direct user support and troubleshoot issues across pre-prod and production.
- Participate in a shared on-call rota (1-in-3).
- Collaborate with wider IT teams to improve reliability and efficiency.
Skills & Experience
- Strong, proven experience with Azure Virtual Desktop administration.
- Knowledge of Azure fundamentals: VMs, networking, RBAC, and identity.
- Hands-on with FSLogix for user profiles and storage solutions (NetApp or equivalent).
- Experience ensuring HA/DR across enterprise AVD platforms.
- Comfortable supporting large-scale environments and end-user teams.
Desirable:
- Exposure to Terraform or Infrastructure as Code pipelines.
- Microsoft Azure certifications.
If you hold active SC clearance and have hands-on experience managing AVD in complex environments, we’d love to hear from you.
Apply today and one of our team will reach out to discuss the role in more detail.
