AVD Consultant - Contractual

Why We Stand Out

Seeking a new challenge where your professional and personal aspirations are not only possible but supported? Kaufman Rossin might be just the place for you! 

Kaufman 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. 

The 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." 

Kaufman 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. 

The 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.

Think you have what it takes?

Technical 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.

How You’ll Contribute:

Architecture & Security Review

• Provide a second set of eyes on the existing AVD design — networking, private DNS, storage, and Conditional Access
• Validate the architecture against Microsoft and Nerdio best practices; document findings with prioritized remediation
• Close identified gaps in identity, network segmentation, and data protection

Image & Application Strategy

• Own golden image build, versioning, and patching process
• Define app delivery approach — MSIX app attach, baked into the image, or packaged — on an app-by-app basis
• Provide guidance and a path forward for legacy applications that do not fit cleanly into AVD

Sizing & Performance

• Right-size host pools based on real utilization and user profiles
• Tune Nerdio auto-scale settings for performance and cost
• Optimize US–India latency and end-user experience, including connection quality and profile/storage performance

Cost Optimization

• Evaluate and recommend Reserved Instances or Azure Savings Plans
• Build scaling schedules aligned to US and India working hours
• Recommend storage tiering and ongoing cost governance practices

Migration & Cutover

• Plan and run pilot groups, with feedback loops before each wave
• Partner with IT and business leaders on user communication and support readiness
• Define and test a rollback plan
• Recommend how long to run Citrix and AVD in parallel, and lead production cutover and Citrix decommissioning

Monitoring & Operations

• Set up alerting and dashboards in Nerdio and Azure Monitor
• Write and maintain operational runbooks for day-to-day support, incident response, and scaling events

• Define health checks and escalation paths for the AVD environment

Knowledge Transfer & Mentorship

• Deliver documented handoff for every component built or changed
• Run working sessions with KR IT staff so the team can operate the environment independently
• Identify automation and process improvement opportunities

What Skills You’ll Bring:

• 5+ 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
• Experience migrating from Citrix (DaaS or on-premises) or a comparable VDI platform, ideally for 500+ users
• Hands-on experience with Nerdio Manager for Enterprise — auto-scale, image management, and host pool administration
• Strong Azure networking and security skills — virtual networks, private endpoints, private DNS, and Entra ID Conditional Access
• Experience with image management and app delivery — MSIX app attach, FSLogix, and golden image patching
• Familiarity with Azure cost management — Reservations, Savings Plans, and scaling schedules
• Experience with Azure Monitor and alerting for AVD environments
• Ability to design and execute pilot, cutover, and rollback plans for large user populations
• Experience supporting globally distributed users, ideally across US and India
• Excellent written and spoken English for stakeholder communication, technical documentation, and training
• Microsoft AZ-140 (Azure Virtual Desktop Specialty) preferred; Citrix or Nutanix experience a plus

ENVIRONMENT

Current State: Citrix DaaS on Nutanix

Target State: Azure Virtual Desktop managed through Nerdio

Users: ~760 across the US and India

Identity & Access: Azure Entra ID, Conditional Access

Infrastructure: Azure networking, private DNS, Azure storage

Monitoring: Nerdio, Azure Monitor

Application Delivery: MSIX app attach, golden image, packaged apps

• Work-Life Balance
• People First Company
• Hybrid work policy
• Working directly with peers in the US

We embrace authenticity. Kaufman Rossin is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to creating a culture that reflects the diversity of our firm and clients. We encourage understanding, acceptance, and celebration among all people. That includes lifestyle, education, experience, race, ethnicity, age, religion, physical ability, sexual orientation, and gender identity. Differences make unique varieties.