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# VDI Engineer

- **Company:** General Dynamics Information Technology
- **Location:** Bergen, Belgium (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** €107,744 - €138,000
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Application Configuration Access Protocols, User Authentication, Domain Name System (DNS), VMware ESX Servers, Image Management, System Center Configuration Manager, Virtual Desktops, Network Segmentation, Public Key Infrastructure, TCP/IP, User Environment Management, VMware VSphere, Windows Desktop, System Availability, Containerization, Network Server, Vmware
- **Published:** November 11, 2026
- **Apply:** https://gdit.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/External_Career_Site/job/BEL-Mons---Supreme-HQ-Allied-Powers-EU-APC155/VDI-Engineer_RQ232082-2/apply

## About the Role

* Education: Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science. Additional years of experience can be used in lieu of degree requirement.
 * Experience: 5+ years of related experience
 * Technical skills: VMWare, DEM, COOP Implementation,
 * Certifications: IAT Level II or higher, VMware Certified Professional (VCP), and ITIL Foundation (within 90 days of hire)
 * Security clearance level: Active Secret required to start
 * Location: Full-time, on-site in Mons, Belgium
 * Belgian SOFA Requirement: 6-12 week review process submitted to the Belgian government by GDIT on the applicant's behalf. Request will be submitted after candidate is chosen., Years of Experience

5 + years of related experience

 * may vary based on technical training, certification(s), or degree
Certification

VMware Certified Professional - Network Virtualization (VCP-NV) | VMware - VMware

ITIL Foundation (Version 5) | PeopleCert - PeopleCert

CompTIA Security+ CE | CompTIA - CompTIA
Travel Required

Less than 10%
Citizenship

## Description

As a VDI Engineer, the work you'll do at GDIT will be impactful to the mission of NATO SOFCOM. You will play a crucial role in providing resilient VMware Horizon virtual desktop services, administering Dynamic Environment Manager (DEM) for consistent user experience, improving platform observability and site reliability, and planning/testing VDI support for the upcoming SOFCOM continuity-of-operations (COOP) site.

 * Maintain approved VMware Horizon control-plane and desktop-pool configurations, entitlements and profile-management integrations.
 * Support golden image engineering, pool refresh/recomposition, authorized patching, testing and delivery of virtual desktop services.
 * Troubleshoot brokers, gateways, sessions, authentication, performance, display protocols and virtual endpoint access.
 * Coordinate ESXi/vCenter, storage, networking, identity and MECM dependencies with the responsible technical engineers.
 * Support approved maintenance, capacity monitoring, high availability checks and VDI recovery exercises.
 * Document pool configurations, virtual endpoint inventories, user experience issues and approved changes.
 * Administer and troubleshoot approved VMware Dynamic Environment Manager (DEM) capabilities, including user environment settings, profile personalization, conditional policies, application configuration, user settings capture/restore and integration with Horizon desktop pools; coordinate with FSLogix or equivalent profile-container technologies where actually deployed.
 * Apply site reliability engineering practices to Horizon/VDI services: define and report approved service-level indicators, proactively monitor connection success, session-launch latency, logon performance, session stability, resource utilization and desktop-pool health; create actionable alerting, dashboards and incident/problem runbooks.
 * Engineer and validate reliable delivery of virtual desktop services for the planned SOFCOM continuity-of-operations (COOP) site, including dependencies on Horizon brokers/connection servers, Unified Access Gateways, identity/AD, DNS, PKI, storage, networking, user profile/data availability and approved cross-site connectivity.
 * Develop and execute Government-approved COOP readiness assessments, tabletop and technical exercises, controlled failover/failback tests, alternate-site desktop-pool activation and user-access verification against Government-established recovery time and recovery point objectives (RTO/RPO), as applicable.
 * Perform capacity and failure-domain analysis for primary and alternate-site Horizon services; recommend high availability, load distribution, image/profile replication or recovery design improvements, and test changes only after approved engineering/security review.
 * Provide cross-functional troubleshooting of Windows desktop and server infrastructure, VMware vSphere, endpoint image management, authentication, TCP/IP/network segmentation, storage and security controls in support of end-to-end VDI service restoration.