VDI Technology Lead - J-00307736

ASML is a Dutch high-tech company and one of the main suppliers of machines for the semiconductor industry, in particular steppers and scanners, which are used in chip making. Customers are often chip manufacturers. ASML's head office and business complex is in Veldhoven, where research and development and assembly take place in cleanrooms. The company also has sixty service points in fourteen countries to support the installation and delivery of machines and spare parts.

ASML was created from a joint venture between ASM International and Royal Philips. ASML delivers worldwide, but most of its customers are located in Asia. In 2011, 66% of sales were achieved in that region, 25% in the United States and just under 9% in Europe. The largest customer was responsible for a quarter of the total turnover. ASML's main supplier is Zeiss, a manufacturer of lenses and optical components. Zeiss's share in ASML's total purchasing costs is just under 30%. Due to the great mutual interests, both companies have entered into a strategic alliance; This can only be broken if one of the parties cancels three years in advance. ASML spends a lot of money on research and development.

Introduction

Founded in 1984, ASML is the world's leading provider of lithography systems for the semiconductor industry, manufacturing complex machines that are critical to the production of integrated circuits or chips. ASML has its headquarters in Veldhoven the Netherlands and has R&D and manufacturing operations in North America, Asia and the Netherlands. The ASML IT division supports information management, workplace and collaboration facilities, infrastructure, automation and optimization of key business processes across ASML. The ICT infrastructure, hardware and applications are absolutely mission critical for almost all ASML’s internal- and external activities. ASML IT department is Agile organized, in which SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework 5.0) has been implemented.

Job Mission

You are responsible for operational health and operation of the delivered VDI services, and for the guidance, design and implementation of innovations and large complex change.

You closely align with the “Business as Usual” support teams to make sure that the initiatives will be brought into service smoothly. You are able to form a bridge between different service providers who deliver a part of the service. 

Job description

As a VDI technology lead, you are a member of the IT End user services of ASML and working in an Agile-DevOps team of Engineers. You are technically responsible for multiple initiatives and changes as well as the execution of different roadmap initiatives in the Virtual Workplace Area. You drive these based on your expertise and your enthusiasm to change. Within the Agile DevOps team you are responsible for delivering designs and implementing the changes. You work within the architecture framework set by the ASML Workplace architect.   You will also work closely with the Product Owner: PO defines the product roadmap and priorities, the Technology Leads maps this to technology and architecture roadmap for the VDI service.

The role will be situated in the Agile Release Train below: Digital Workplace (DW)

Digital Workplace provides workplace services for ASML staff world-wide as well as to 3rd party Suppliers. This includes laptops, special purpose devices, mobile device management, worldwide virtual desktops and Collaboration & Productivity services such as Office 365, Webcast, Intranet & Search and various other collaboration tools

Education

Bachelor level Information Technology or similar

Preferably: CCE – V or similar

Experience/Skills

• 5 years relevant working experience as Citrix specialist;
• Technology platform knowledge of Citrix VDI and Azure VDI.
• Experienced in the Citrix App Layered SW Technology;
• A strong focus on quality and act according agreements is a must;
• A driving force to improve and innovate our services with strong end user focus;
• Good communication skills and able to work in an ecosystem (being able to step outside your own domain if required);
• Preferably a strong community member and aware of the latest technologies;
• IT Architecture skills (being able to understand architectures on conceptual level and to maintain it);
• Expert-level skills on Citrix XenDesktop, Citrix Xenserver,  Windows 10/11;
• Senior-level skills on Netscaler (Access gateway only);
• Senior-level skills on hyper-converged infrastructure (preferably Cisco UCS);
• Senior-level skills on MS Azure and Citrix cloud;
• Medior-level skills on Redhat Linux (supported by an ASML Linux expert);
• Medior-level skills on VMWare vSphere;

Preferred start date: ASAP

Assignment duration: 36 Months

Flex type: Competency

FTE: 40 hours

Shift: Regular Day Shift

Working from home: Partially, 3 days in the office

Department: Core IT Infra - End User Service

Preferred language: English

Amount of open positions: 1

Motivation letter required: YES