Citrix announces 20 new jobs

IT firm Citrix is to create 20 new jobs at its Dublin base, it was announced today.

The jobs will be created at Citrix Systems Ireland, customer technical support headquarters for the EMEA region. The new hiring round will bring to around 120 the number of people employed at the centre.

"To support the overall business we have to scale up our operation, not just in the traditional Technical Support areas, but significantly in engineering," said John Kelly, Citrix Director of Technical Support (EMEA).

"We are therefore seeking the best technical talent we can find and we have a number of new key roles we need to fill immediately including Technical Support engineers, Escalation Engineers as well as Technical Relationship Managers," Mr Kelly said.

"We are also keen to hear from engineers with software development skills and an interest in working with the global leader and the most trusted name in application delivery infrastructure."

IDA Chief Executive Barry O'Leary welcomed the expansion, saying it demonstrated Ireland's ability to compete for and win new, high value technology functions

Citrix Systems is a leading provider of virtualization, networking and cloud computing solutions for more than 230,000 organizations worldwide. Founded in 1989, annual revenue in 2008 was $1.6bn (€1.08bn).