Software Packaging Consultant / Software Packaging Technical Specialist

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.