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Citrix Systems Ireland is to create 20 new full time jobs at its Dublin-based operation, it was announced today.

The company, which has its Customer Technical Support for Europe Middle East and Africa (EMEA) heaquarters in East Point Business Park, is recruiting for a number of support roles.

Citrix has steadily increased its employee numbers since 2007, with the next hiring round taking the total to almost 120.

The firm's director of technical support for EMEA John Kelly said the services side of Citrix's business was growing due to the rate of adoption of the company's products, and rapid growth in the networking market for Citrix.

"To support the overall business we have to scale up our operation, not just in the traditional Technical Support areas, but significantly in engineering," he said.

"In fact the Irish operation now has approval to expand its activities into software engineering areas such as code modification in support of delivering solutions to our customers."

The company said a key factor in growing Citrix's Irish business was the availability of appropriately skilled or educated workers.

IDA Ireland chief executive Barry O’Leary welcomed the news of the expansion.

"Citrix has a strong presence here for the last 10 years and the addition of a new business function demonstrates Ireland’s ability to compete for and win new, high value technology functions," he said.