Job Title: Software Packaging Consultant / Software Packaging Technical Specialist
Location: Houston, TX
Duration: Contract
Responsibilities:
- The Senior Software Packager will assume a technical lead role and will participate in project assessment, software packaging and delivery
- tools, custom scripting, pilot testing, user acceptance and communication, and remediation activities associated with large scale software
- deployments.
- The Senior Software Packager will help solve complex technical issues and develop customized solutions in deploying software applications
- to a diverse workstation/server environment.
- The Senior Software Packager will work in a test, configuration management, and release management environment, interfacing with various
- process owners.
- The Senior Software Packager will participate or execute compliance activities adhering to Company standards and policies.
- Serve in a lead role in meetings relating to specific technical projects or tasks.
- Lead or support IT initiatives and gathers technical requirements as needed.
- Must be able to lead the technical discussions with Company resources independently.
- Reporting on findings, recommendations, escalation to IT team lead for decisions.
- The Senior Software Packager will need the ability to write technical documentation in the form of design, test plans, installation plans, and
- incident reviews.
- Interfaces with other release team members to ensure all technical aspects of the deployment have been accounted for to minimize risk to
- IT infrastructure.
- Coordinate with third-party vendors and participate in all required team meetings.
Requirements:
- 7+ years of software packaging, application development and deployment within a physical and virtual environment, preferably for a large
enterprise organization, or experience as agreed with Company.
- Experienced in integrating of the application packaging and delivery solution with the user self-service portal, automation tools, enterprise
software deployment tools, software licensing tools, data export compliance, remote AVD, and remote hosted applications.
- Strong technical skills and hands-on expertise .NET, .BAT, .VBS, WSE, .MSI, .MST, .MSP, SQL Server, APPV, MSIX, Numecent and
similar scripting and database tools.
- Experience with automation scripts, orchestration, and automation processes and products.
- Deep understanding of implementing and supporting application virtualization, streaming, layering and paging technologies on AVD
environments, desktop, servers on-prem and in the cloud, and mobile devices.
- Provides engineering, deployment, and transition to a broad range of current and future Microsoft applications and technologies or similar
third-party tools that integrate Microsoft products (e.g. Intune and Ansible).
- Expert in application packaging and deploying through Intune Management, application model, and containers.
- In-depth experience of Microsoft Operating Systems (desktop and server).
- Strong experience in the Windows Registry (32/64bit architecture) manipulation required.
- Windows troubleshooting skills. This position will often act as the highest level of problem escalation required. Ability to communicate
escalations when needed.
- Experience with process and infrastructure compliance including ITIL and IRM.
- Strong organizational and communication skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Developed scripts in PowerShell, Ansible, DSC, Python, or YAML.
- Familiar with tools or automate scripts/processes.
- Experience with idempotent to configuration manager, policy, and deployment.
- Project coordination experience; knows how to manage change, identifying risks, design documents; manage or lead technical projects and
track task.
- Knowledge UWP - MSIX packaging development and deployment.
- Skillful in SAFe Agile framework.
- Experience with Azure DevOps and CI/CD pipeline.
- Azure Certificates.
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience required.