[Hiring] App Packaging Specialist @ASM Research

Role Description

Automates the generation of executable software and installation into target environments. Serves as an expert in designing, implementing and maintaining software test automation test frameworks/solutions. Acts as a lead to a team of engineers developing and maintaining application software and database packages.

• App inventory, package/test apps.
• Building, testing, and deploying enterprise applications across Windows, iOS, and Android as part of the UEM → Intune modernization effort.
• Performs end to end application inventory, analysis, packaging, and validation using MSIX, Win32, Intune wrapping, and mobile app format.
• Ensure applications are compliant with security policies, compatible with modern management tooling, and ready for deployment at scale through Intune and Mobile Application Management (MAM) configurations.
• Troubleshooting packaging issues.
• Coordinating with application owners.
• Maintaining a full application catalog.
• Supporting migration waves for a secure, stable, and predictable app deployment experience.
• Mentors junior team members and provides input on annual appraisals of team members as appropriate.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in a technical field such as Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent relevant experience; Master’s Degree preferred.
• 6+ years of experience in relevant field.
• Candidates must be US citizens and will be required to undergo a background investigation in order to gain access to sensitive information. No dual citizens due to federal agency requirements.

Requirements

• Proficiency with MSIX packaging, MSIX modification packages, signing, and conversion.
• Expert in Win32/IntuneWin packaging, detection/enforcement rules, dependency modeling, and remediation scripts.
• Experience with iOS app deployment (IPA, VPP/ABM integration) and Android app deployment (APK/AAB, Managed Google Play).
• Understanding of application behaviors under MAM policies, informed by established AFS user experience patterns (e.g., MAM job aids showing app protection flows).
• Skilled in Intune app wrapping, ingestion of LOB apps, app assignment strategies, version control, rollout rings, and deployment monitoring.
• Ability to configure MAM policies, app protection policies, conditional launch requirements, data protection settings, and user exception handling.
• Experience gathering full app inventories, analyzing dependencies, identifying repackaging needs, and building a migration readiness matrix.
• Ability to execute functional, compatibility, and performance testing across Windows, iOS, and Android.
• Ability to validate apps under MDM and MAM enrollment scenarios (e.g., required MFA prompts, Intune Company Portal behaviors).
• Hands on troubleshooting of install failures, certificate/signing issues, dependency gaps, and Intune deployment failures.
• Ability to review logs (Intune Management Extension, Event Viewer, mobile logs) and produce root cause analysis.
• Able to work closely with security, platform engineering, and app owners.
• Produce packaging guides, change records, deployment plans, and rollback procedures.

Preferred Skills

• Experience supporting large scale MDM/MAM programs.
• Knowledge of Defender for Endpoint app based mitigations, ASR rules, and app hardening patterns.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines for application packaging, signing automation, and Intune configuration as code.
• Experience with certificate based signing, timestamping authorities, and enterprise PKI.
• Experience with analytics/reporting (Log Analytics/KQL) for app performance and failure tracking.
• Understanding of Zero Trust concepts as they relate to application behavior, data leakage controls, and policy enforcement.
• Prior experience with Blackberry UEM app lifecycle and federation patterns to support migration mapping.