W2 contract || Software Packaging Consultant

Job Title: Software Packaging Consultant

Job Location: Houston, TX (Onsite from day one)

Job Duration: 6+ months

Minimum years of experience required: 8+ years

Type of Hire: w2 contract

Job Details

The Senior Software Packager will contribute to the design of modern packaging; conduct planning, requirements analysis, pre and postimplementation

support, and maintenance. The resource will work on basic to complex applications, develop and execute test plans prior to

software deployment and maintain documentation of all customizations and changes made during the packaging process.

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.