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Kaufman Rossin might be just the place for you!\nKaufman Rossin Professional Services Private Limited’s (the “Company”) offices are located in the World Trade Center (WTC) in Bangalore, Karnataka, India, and at Udyog Vihar, in Gurgaon, Haryana, India.\nThe Bangalore office provides a range of services, including risk management, corporate governance, tax, assurance, and family office services. Out of the Gurgaon office, we render highly specialized back-office alternative investment services for global hedge funds and related fund types. As one of the top accounting firms in the US, our foundation is “people first”. In the words of James Kaufman, one of our founders, “We prioritize our people, their development, and their well-being. Our values are translated into action every day.\"\nKaufman Rossin, headquartered in Miami, Florida has been celebrated as the Best Place to Work in South Florida more than a dozen times. The firm has grown to over 700 employees, with offices spanning the tri-county area and sister entities, Kaufman Rossin Wealth and Kaufman Rossin Alternative Investment Services.\nThe Firm is ranked 49th among the top 100 firms in the US by Inside Public Accounting 2023. Internationally, the Firm has offices in Bangalore and Haryana in India and the Ivory Coast in Africa.\nThink you have what it takes?\nTechnical owner of KR’s migration from Citrix DaaS on Nutanix to Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) managed through Nerdio, supporting approximately 760 users across the US and India. Core infrastructure is already built and working; this role validates the architecture against best practices, closes specific gaps, and leads production cutover. Operates independently, partnering with IT leadership, security, and application owners. Success means KR’s own team can confidently run the AVD environment after handoff. Documented knowledge transfer and working sessions are part of the job, not an afterthought. Note that this is a contractual role.\nRequirements\nHow You’ll Contribute:\nArchitecture & Security Review\nProvide a second set of eyes on the existing AVD design - networking, private DNS, storage, and Conditional Access\nValidate the architecture against Microsoft and Nerdio best practices; document findings with prioritized remediation\nClose identified gaps in identity, network segmentation, and data protection\nImage & Application Strategy\nOwn golden image build, versioning, and patching process\nDefine app delivery approach - MSIX app attach, baked into the image, or packaged - on an app-by-app basis\nProvide guidance and a path forward for legacy applications that do not fit cleanly into AVD\nSizing & Performance\nRight-size host pools based on real utilization and user profiles\nTune Nerdio auto-scale settings for performance and cost\nOptimize US-India latency and end-user experience, including connection quality and profile/storage performance\nCost Optimization\nEvaluate and recommend Reserved Instances or Azure Savings Plans\nBuild scaling schedules aligned to US and India working hours\nRecommend storage tiering and ongoing cost governance practices\nMigration & Cutover\nPlan and run pilot groups, with feedback loops before each wave\nPartner with IT and business leaders on user communication and support readiness\nDefine and test a rollback plan\nRecommend how long to run Citrix and AVD in parallel, and lead production cutover and Citrix decommissioning\nMonitoring & Operations\nSet up alerting and dashboards in Nerdio and Azure Monitor\nWrite and maintain operational runbooks for day-to-day support, incident response, and scaling events\nDefine health checks and escalation paths for the AVD environment\nKnowledge Transfer & Mentorship\nDeliver documented handoff for every component built or changed\nRun working sessions with KR IT staff so the team can operate the environment independently\nIdentify automation and process improvement opportunities\nWhat Skills You’ll Bring:\n5+ years of experience in end-user computing, virtual desktop, or cloud infrastructure, with at least 2 years of hands-on Azure Virtual Desktop in production\nExperience migrating from Citrix (DaaS or on-premises) or a comparable VDI platform, ideally for 500+ users\nHands-on experience with Nerdio Manager for Enterprise - auto-scale, image management, and host pool administration\nStrong Azure networking and security skills - virtual networks, private endpoints, private DNS, and Entra ID Conditional Access\nExperience with image management and app delivery - MSIX app attach, FSLogix, and golden image patching\nFamiliarity with Azure cost management - Reservations, Savings Plans, and scaling schedules\nExperience with Azure Monitor and alerting for AVD environments\nAbility to design and execute pilot, cutover, and rollback plans for large user populations\nExperience supporting globally distributed users, ideally across US and India\nExcellent written and spoken English for stakeholder communication, technical documentation, and training\nMicrosoft AZ-140 (Azure Virtual Desktop Specialty) preferred; Citrix or Nutanix experience a plus\nENVIRONMENT\nCurrent State: Citrix DaaS on Nutanix\nTarget State: Azure Virtual Desktop managed through Nerdio\nUsers: ~760 across the US and India\nIdentity & Access: Azure Entra ID, Conditional Access\nInfrastructure: Azure networking, private DNS, Azure storage\nMonitoring: Nerdio, Azure Monitor\nApplication Delivery: MSIX app attach, golden image, packaged apps\nBenefits\nWork-Life Balance\nPeople First Company\nHybrid work policy\nWorking directly with peers in the US\nWe embrace authenticity.Kaufman Rossin is an equal opportunity employer. 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