£1/day
Trafford, England
Contract, Variable

Application Packager

Posted by Jumar Solutions.

Application Packager

Manchester based

6 Months contract

Inside IR35

Are you an expert in application packaging looking for a new challenge? Join our team and work independently on end-to-end application packaging processes, from initial request to final deployment, collaborating with customers, vendors, and IT departments.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Perform technical analysis, requirements gathering, package creation, quality assurance, user acceptance testing, and deployment.
  • Create documentation for all tasks.

Technical Expertise Required:

  • Deep understanding of Microsoft Windows operating systems, including installation methods, file systems, registry usage, services, user profiles, and hardware drivers.
  • In-depth knowledge of Microsoft's Windows Installer technology for Windows 10, including the MSI application format, tables, features, components, properties, and creating Transform files.
  • Proficient in using AdminStudio and InstallShield to convert proprietary installation methods to standard MSI format, familiar with Advertised Shortcuts, Upgrade Codes, and Custom Actions.
  • Strong problem-solving skills for diagnosing installation/uninstallation issues and software conflicts with both vendor-supplied and locally created installers, in MSI or proprietary formats.
  • Scripting skills in various languages, including Windows PowerShell, Batch script, and Visual Basic.
  • Experience with Microsoft SCCM for creating and deploying applications in a large-scale enterprise environment, including application dependencies and supersedence, and the ability to monitor and remediate deployments.
  • Experience virtualizing applications into Microsoft App-V format.
  • Prior experience in environments with multiple non-admin users on the same workstation with non-persistent local profiles .

Desired Skills:

- Some admin experience with Azure/Intune is a plus.

If you have the skills and experience we're looking for, we'd love to hear from you!