Senior Desktop Engineer

Overview

On Site
USD 110,000.00 per year
Full Time

Skills

End-user computing
Root cause analysis
Corporate social responsibility
Information security
Operating systems
Active Directory
Group policy
Virtual desktop
Patch Management
Change management
Management
Roadmaps
Strategy
Metrics
Research and development
Operations
Reporting
Research
Automation
Software deployment
Administration
VDI
Microsoft Windows
OS X
Microsoft
Retail

Job Details

Senior Desktop Engineer

Location: Remote
Duration: Full time
Pay: $110,000

JOB DESCRIPTION
Our food industry client with over 500 locations, some with internal pharmacies, as well as 250 supermarkets, 12 standalone pharmacies, and 280 fuel stations. This large company, with over 32,000 employees, is an ideal company to work for because of their resoundingly positive reputation. Based out of Chicago, Illinois, this company has made their mark on primarily the northeastern economy with a reported 8.9B dollars in annual revenue for 2022.
RESPONSIBILITIES
  • Determine which solution best fits the business need, identify gaps in solutions and determine necessary workarounds or changes to the solution. This includes the ability to understand the costs and risks of filling these gaps and the ability to describe that to the business.
  • Develop and manage business area roadmaps and strategy in association with the responsible Business Manager, Development Manager, Project Manager and Support Manager.
  • Determine performance metrics to be used to validate the success of the proposed solution.
  • Implement end user computing security best practices as per the information security roadmap.
  • Communicate with business areas within the company to understand and assess needs.
  • Troubleshoot and resolve complex 3rd level desktop related issues.
  • Stay current on business and industry-related technology to support various business areas.
  • Reduce and eliminate operations and maintenance duties by analyzing and root cause analysis initiative.
  • Report any type of problems or potential problems to the appropriate management in a timely manner.
  • Research and integration of new desktop technologies.
  • Have distinctive understanding of mobile operating systems.
  • Develop software automation and deployment strategies and techniques.
  • Understand Active Directory and Group Policy administration of client devices.
  • Develop VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) strategy.
  • Create and develop processes and procedures to manage new VDI requests.
  • Package and sequence software applications.
  • Understand patch management process for Windows and OSX based operating systems.
  • Document and communicate of configuration changes in support of change management processes.
QUALIFICATIONS
  • Experience Required: 5 to 10 years.
  • Experience Desired: Relevant Microsoft certifications; Retail experience; Experience managing small to medium projects.
  • Education Required: Bachelor's Degree
  • Travel Required: Regional - Daily, Less than 10%
Category Code: JN008