Virtualization Platform Specialist

When applicable, Bombardier promotes flexible and hybrid work policies.

Why join us? 

At Bombardier, we design, build and maintain the world’s peak-performing aircraft for the world’s most discerning people and businesses, governments and militaries. We have been successful in setting the highest standards by putting our people at the heart of it all, and defining excellence, together.

Working at Bombardier means operating at the highest level. Every day, you are part of a team that delivers superior experiences and products, pushing the boundaries of what's possible in our industry and beyond. By prioritizing employee growth and development, we empower everyone to reach their full potential on their own terms, because the best work happens when you are free to be yourself and share your unique expertise. 

Bombardier’s Benefits Program

With our employees’ well-being top of mind, we offer a comprehensive and competitive Benefits Program, which includes the following: 

• Insurance plans (Dental, medical, life insurance, disability, and more)
• Competitive base salary 
• Retirement savings plan 
• Employee Assistance Program  
• Tele Health Program

Role overview

The Virtualization Platform Specialist is responsible for the administration, implementation, technical evolution, and continuous improvement of the enterprise virtualization platforms supporting desktop, application, and server workloads. The role provides senior technical expertise across technologies such as Citrix, Proxmox, Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD), and associated virtualization and management platforms. The role is expected to operate independently, provide technical leadership, and ensure virtualization platforms are reliable, secure, scalable, performant, and aligned with enterprise technology strategy.

Working closely with Infrastructure, Cloud, Network, Security, Application, Architecture, and project teams, the position supports complex operational issues while leading or contributing to virtualization projects, platform modernization, migrations, upgrades, and technology lifecycle activities.

What are your contributions to the team?

• Virtualization Platform Ownership & Administration: Administer and maintain enterprise desktop, application, and server virtualization platforms, including configuration, capacity, performance, availability, patching, upgrades, and lifecycle management.
• Platform Engineering & Implementation: Design, configure, implement, and validate virtualization solutions, including new deployments, platform expansions, migrations, upgrades, and technology refreshes across on-premises and cloud environments.
• Desktop & Application Virtualization: Provide technical expertise for virtual desktop and application delivery platforms, including Citrix and Azure Virtual Desktop, covering session management, application delivery, user experience, capacity, and platform integration.
• Server Virtualization & Platform Engineering: Provide technical expertise for server virtualization platforms such as Proxmox and associated compute, storage, networking, clustering, high availability, and workload management technologies.
• Operational Reliability & Troubleshooting: Lead investigation and resolution of complex virtualization incidents, performance issues, capacity constraints, availability problems, and systemic platform issues, including root-cause analysis and corrective actions.
• Projects, Migration & Technology Evolution: Lead or provide senior technical expertise for virtualization projects, workload migrations, platform modernization, cloud adoption, consolidation, upgrades, and technology lifecycle initiatives.
• Automation, Monitoring & Optimization: Develop and promote automation for provisioning, configuration, patching, monitoring, capacity management, and routine platform activities while identifying opportunities to improve utilization, performance, and operational efficiency.
• Technical Leadership & Standards: Act as the virtualization SME, provide technical guidance to Infrastructure, Cloud, Network, Security, Application, and project teams, contribute to platform standards and roadmaps, and champion continuous improvement.

How to thrive in this role?

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Systems Engineering, or a related discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and professional experience.
• 5+ years of professional experience in virtualization, systems engineering, infrastructure engineering, or related enterprise technology disciplines, with demonstrated senior-level responsibility.
• Strong hands-on experience with enterprise virtualization platforms, including installation, configuration, administration, upgrades, troubleshooting, performance management, and lifecycle activities.
• Demonstrated experience with one or more major virtualization technologies such as Citrix, Proxmox, VMware, Hyper-V, Azure Virtual Desktop, or equivalent platforms, with the ability to work across multiple technologies.
• Strong knowledge of desktop, application, and/or server virtualization concepts, including compute, storage, networking, high availability, clustering, resource management, and workload provisioning.
• Experience supporting virtualization platforms across on-premises data centers and cloud environments, preferably including Azure and hybrid infrastructure.
• Strong understanding of virtualization security, identity and access management, networking, backup/recovery, disaster recovery, monitoring, capacity planning, and high availability.
• Working knowledge of automation and scripting, such as PowerShell, Python, Bash, Ansible, APIs, or equivalent technologies, with an understanding of Infrastructure-as-Code and DevOps practices.
• Strong analytical, communication, and collaboration skills, with the ability to independently resolve complex technical issues.
• Fluency in English and French, both written and spoken.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong experience with Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops, Proxmox VE, and/or Azure Virtual Desktop, including platform architecture and large-scale implementations.
• Experience with hybrid virtualization environments, cloud migration, workload mobility, software-defined infrastructure, and modern application delivery platforms.
• Relevant professional certifications such as Citrix, Microsoft Azure, VMware, Linux, or equivalent virtualization/cloud certifications.
• Experience developing enterprise virtualization standards, reference architectures, automation practices, capacity strategies, and multi-year platform technology roadmaps.

Now that you can see yourself in this role, apply and join the Bombardier Team!

Please note: You don’t need all the skills, knowledge, and experience listed to apply for this position. We’re not looking for the perfect candidate, we’re looking for great talent and passionate individuals. 

Bombardier is an equal opportunity employer and encourages persons of any race, religion, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, immigration status, disability or other applicable legally protected characteristics to apply.

Job  Virtualization Platform Specialist 

Primary Location Administrative Centre (CA)

Organization  Aerospace Canada

Shift 

Employee Status Regular 

Requisition  16558  Virtualization Platform Specialist