Description
Purpose of the role:
The Workplace Platforms Engineer will play an integral role in both the day-to-day operation and continued development and enhancement of our workplace technology. This role will also have a focus on the efficient delivery of our business applications to our workplace computing environment.
Role Responsibilities:
- Take ownership for the application packaging process, methods, and tools to ensure the approach is as efficient as possible and delivers maximum flexibility to our business.
- Package applications efficiently as required by our application teams.
- Up skill fellow Workplace Platform Engineers in application packaging to provide organisational resilience.
- Proactively identify, design and develop new capabilities within workplace platforms, to reduce manual effort, increase resilience, and deliver the best possible colleague experience.
- Take ownership for the security of the technology you work with, and workplace platforms as a whole; ensuring best practice security principles are adopted by default and security vulnerabilities are proactively identified and addressed
Necessary experience or qualifications
Essential:
- Application packaging using Microsoft App-v.
- Working Scripting skills, including PowerShell.
- Enterprise endpoint management tools eg Ivanti Appsense.
- Application MSI packaging using Pace/ORCA.
- Practical experience of Windows domain services such as Active Directory, GPO, Azure AD.
- Desktop builds and deployment using SCCM.
- Practical experience of Office 365.
- Maintenance of a Windows 10 desktop environment, including patch deployment.
- Excellent communication skills (written, oral).
Desirable:
- Administration and support of an end user computing environment, in a regulated business.
- Other Practical experience of Office 365, including Exchange Online, Intune, and beyond.
- Monitoring and analysis tools, in an end user computing context eg Systrack.
- An understanding of Desk as a Service (DaaS) cloud technology eg Amazon Workspaces.
- Practical experience of managing Surface Pros.
- Hands on experience of a desktop replacement project.
- Must have a minimum of 5 GCSE's grade A-C or equivalent qualification
- 2 A Levels grade A-D or equivalent qualification
- University Degree or equivalent, professional qualification(s)
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