SCCM Engineer - SC Cleared

SCCM Engineer - SC Cleared

Rate: £515 a day (Inside IR35)

Duration: 12 month initial contract

Location: Southampton - on site 3 days a week

+ MSI / MSIX

+ SCCM MECM EPM Intune

+ Apps Packaging

You will join an innovative defence consultancy as an SCCM Engineer, initially on a 12 month contract.

Their corporate IT department is expanding as their business grows, currently supporting over 1000 users across National Security, Defence and Intelligence business units.

This is a broad and sophisticated IT estate that requires our Systems Engineers to apply, hone and gain experience in diverse fields - from 'conventional' on-premises systems to cloud computing and 'air gapped' systems supplying diverse services to our customer base.

Job Purpose & Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for the proactive package, test and deployment of software, OS, security patches, and updates to a varied Microsoft end-user device and server estate.
• Accountable for maintaining configuration documentation, participating in change management processes and supporting end user engineering tasks.
• Understand and input into desktop engineering standards, processes and best practices
• Conduct data analysis and liaise with colleagues and stakeholders to design and implement solutions that mitigate security vulnerabilities, improve compliance efficiency and minimise working hours downtime.
• Support and mentor colleagues in the use of relevant technology packages and industry standard procedures.
• Participate in the design and implementation of new IT infrastructure, ensuring the principles of secure-by-design and automate-by-default are adhered-to for patching and updates
• Conduct 3rd line support and troubleshooting as required

Required skills & Experience

• Expert understanding of MSI/MSIX technology, including transforms.
• Operating System Deployment (OSD), including tools such as MDT plus experience of OS migrations (Windows 10 to Windows 11)
• Must have packaged applications for Windows 10, Windows 11 and equivalent Windows Server platforms. Demonstrable experience of package defect remediation required.
• SCCM, MECM and EPM/InTune administration
• Microsoft Group Policy Objects (GPOs)
• Scripting experience using BAT, PowerShell and VB, C# Scripts