Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Akkodis is seeking a Device Management Specialist Consultant for a contract position focused on large-scale endpoint and store device management. The role will investigate rollout failures, evaluate deployment tools and lifecycle controls, assess testing and deployment stages, and document findings for a CTO.
Responsibilities
- Trace three real failures, a printer firmware rollout, a register BIOS update that ran twice and took stores down, and a back-office PC imaging process, back through how each change was built, tested, approved, deployed, and verified
- Sit with the admins of a 15-year-old in-house deployment tool and understand what it actually does when a job runs, fails, or re-fires
- Judge whether the lab, the pilot, and the rollout stages would have caught the failure, and say what they would need to do differently
- Assess what the client's existing tools, including BigFix, can carry and what any replacement would have to do
- Write up findings a CTO can read
Skills
- Owned the full device lifecycle at scale, thousands of endpoints: build and image, packaging, test, approval, release, deployment, verification, rollback, support
- Ran it, not managed the people who ran it
- Windows and Linux patching or imaging at scale
- Has been on the fixing side of a rollout that went wrong
- Comfortable inside an unfamiliar, undocumented tool, learning it from the people who run it
- Hands-on BigFix
- SUSE Multi-Linux Manager or another Linux patching platform (Puppet, Ansible, Salt, SUSE Manager)
- Retail store systems or POS experience
- Toshiba POS is a plus
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Term life insurance
- Short-term disability insurance
- Additional voluntary benefits
- Commuter benefits
- 401K plan
- Paid Sick Leave, where required by law
- Any other paid leave required by Federal, State or local law
- Holiday pay upon meeting eligibility criteria
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