Overview PLEASE NOTE: No corp-to-corp candidates will be accepted. Responsibilities • Design, build, maintain, and secure standardized workstation images for Windows and macOS supporting on-site, remote, and VDI access. • Engineer endpoint baselines and technical controls that reduce risk of unauthorized discovery, lateral movement, malicious credential use, persistence, and defense evasion. • Own engineering design and lifecycle maintenance for imaging, patching, automation, validation, rollback, and release management. • Maintain OS and application patching, version control, and deployment workflows using approved enterprise tools such as Ivanti, KACE, Intune, GPO, JAMF, or equivalent. • Engineer and maintain logging, telemetry, monitoring, and audit capabilities to track endpoint activity, enrollment, user authentication, network access, and compliance posture. • Develop and execute validation testing after imaging or major patch cycles to confirm endpoint functionality, security agent health, authentication, and VDI connectivity. • Support the assessment, recommendation, implementation, validation workflow by producing Findings Reports, Remediation Plans, Validation Reports, and change documentation. • Create and maintain runbooks, technical standards, deployment procedures, rollback procedures, and engineering documentation for Service Desk and IRM teams. • Support engineering escalations arising from complex Endpoint, image, patching, telemetry, and device-management incidents. Qualifications Core Qualifications: • Bachelor’s degree in IT, Cybersecurity, or related field preferred; equivalent experience acceptable • Must possess an active or interim Top Secret security clearance • 8+ years of experience in IT, Endpoint Engineering, or Cybersecurity • 6+ years of experience performing engineering functions in enterprise environments • Experience working under formal change control, audit, and security governance processes Additional Qualifications: • Experience building and maintaining Windows and macOS workstation images • Experience with image automation, image validation, rollback, and version control • Experience integrating workstation images with VDI, EDR, authentication mechanisms, and logging agents • Experience maintaining imaging toolchains and automation scripts using Ivanti, KACE, JAMF, or equivalent • Experience with formal image-release processes including build, test, signoff, and release • Hands-on experience with Ivanti and/or KACE for OS and application patching • Experience managing configuration drift, remediation workflows, deployment failures, and rollback • Experience validating patches post-deployment and supporting rollback/recovery • Experience coordinating Intune/GPO-based patch orchestration for Windows endpoints • Experience configuring Windows Event Logs, macOS Unified Logs, application logs, and endpoint logging agents • Experience forwarding and validating logs to SIEM/EDR platforms such as Microsoft Sentinel or equivalent • Experience implementing monitoring for patch status, enrollment status, image deployment status, and compliance posture • Experience supporting forensic collection, artifact preservation, and audit readiness