Cloud Engineer

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.