Software Packaging Consultant / Software Packaging Technical Specialist

Employment Eligibility Statement

Due to specific project and client requirements, this position is open to U.S. Citizens and U.S. Lawful Permanent Residents (Green Card holders) . Sponsorship is not available at this time.Danta Technologies evaluates all candidates in compliance with the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) and EEOC guidelines . All hiring decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.

Job Title

Software Packaging Consultant / Software Packaging Technical Specialist

Location

Houston, TX

Mode

Contract (6+ Months) – Onsite from Day 1 - Long Term Role

This role performs system integrations across Company desktop, on and off-prem cloud server, and AVD technology platforms. The resource

will participate in the development of packaging solutions for desktop and server platforms as well as conversion of legacy applications and

utilities through the use of Numecent, MSIX, PSApp Deploy, Ansible, and containerization.

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.

Notes

- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender, gender expression, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by local law, regulation, or ordinance.

Benefits

Danta offers a compensation package to all W2 employees that are competitive in the industry. It consists of competitive pay, the option to elect healthcare insurance (Dental, Medical, Vision), Major holidays and Paid sick leave as per state law.

The rate/ Salary range is dependent on numerous factors including Qualification, Experience and Location.