Application Packaging Consultant

An exciting opportunity to join our team within a growing ICT Services company with a global portfolio, as a Workspace analyst. The Getronics family is an ICT Services group with an extensive history that extends over 135 years, with 4000 employees in 22 countries across Europe, Asia Pacific & Latin America. It has a complete portfolio of integrated ICT services for the large enterprise and public sector markets, including Workspace, Applications, Unified Communications, Data Centre, Cloud, Consulting, Partner Technology, Managed Services, and Security. Getronics is the leading member in the Global Workspace Alliance, a unique model that provides customers with a consistent IT service throughout the world, with one single point of contact and billing entity, delivering services to over 180 countries. The GWA manages 5.5m workspace assets globally.

About the Role

The suitable candidate for this role will mainly support the preparation, testing, and release of software within the customer environment. This support includes incident resolution as well as request fulfillment. In addition, they will contribute to the BAU support of the Endpoint environment.

Responsibilities

• Ensure the right packaging and delivery approach is used, depending on the application.
• In accordance with agreed processes, execute the steps of the application packaging process within the SLA limits. These include:
• application intake
• packaging (involving a variety of packaging tools)
• technical testing
• documentation
• deployment
• maintenance
• Resolve incidents and requests related to packages in accordance with the SLA.
• Update the customer and the ITSM ticket throughout its lifecycle of it.
• Liaise with change management, customers, application owner,s and vendors where needed.
• Where applicable, liaise with the external packaging factory for select package requests. This includes reviewing their output to ensure the deliverables are up to the agreed standards before continuing with the release process.
• Manage and support customer environment built with Windows client operating systems, Active Directory Group Policy, Microsoft Defender, SoftwareCentral and the Microsoft Intune product family (Microsoft Configuration Manager / Intune).
• Respond to and resolve assigned incidents in addition to implementing requests and changes, ensuring appropriate actions are taken so that none of them exceed their SLA or cause unforeseen business impact.
• Update the customer and the ITSM ticket throughout its lifecycle of it.
• Liaise with the Service Desk, other Getronics resolver groups, the customer and vendors where needed, to resolve tickets.
• Comply with relevant customer and Getronics policies and procedures.
• Discuss any assigned tickets for which you need assistance with senior colleagues or management.
• When a ticket is in risk of breaching SLA, escalate to management.

Qualifications

At least 4 years of experience in preparing applications for deployment on Windows Operating Systems, by employing available setup commands/scripting as well as repackaging and customizing setup applications using tooling such as InstallShield, RayPack, etc.

Required Skills

• Thorough knowledge of the MSI and MSIX packaging frameworks.
• Thorough knowledge of Windows 11 and AD Group Policies.
• Intermediate level knowledge of PowerShell Scripting and basic level VB scripting in support of automating application installations.
• Operational knowledge of the Microsoft Intune product family including Microsoft Configuration Manager with a focus on application creation/integration and deployment.
• Possess excellent troubleshooting and logical reasoning skills.
• Experienced in working in an ITIL-based operations environment using ITSM toolsets such as ServiceNow.
• Flexible when emergencies occur.
• Proficiency in English.

Preferred Skills

• Experience in preparing applications for a Citrix environment.
• Microsoft Certifications
• MD-100: Windows 10
• MD-101: Managing modern desktops
• Or MD-102: Endpoint Administrator
• Experience supporting multiple customer environments simultaneously.
• Experience working in an international environment.