Desktop Engineer

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About the Role

Overview

The Desktop DevEx Engineer is responsible for designing, engineering, and implementing the target-state developer experience on EUC endpoints across macOS and Windows. This role focuses on standardising the developer persona, eliminating exception-based processes, and ensuring secure, compliant, and efficient delivery of developer tooling and workspace configuration.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement processes for allocating, configuring, and maintaining EUC endpoints tailored to developer needs (Windows (Dev Drive, WSLv2, Docker Desktop), macOS (Desktop Virtualization, Docker Desktop).
• Engineer and automate the developer workspace setup, including configuration of API tokens, certificates, proxies, pipelines, and environment settings
• Improve and standardize packaging and deployment processes for SDLC tools and software manufacturing utilities.
• Contribute to the creation of a governance model for developer-specific tooling, including:
• A package manager for rapid and compliant distribution
• Auto-update frameworks for key developer tools (e.g. major IDEs)
• Controls to mitigate unauthorized executables on endpoints
• Support the design of secure, elevated access models for developers across developer devices.
• Collaborate with engineering, security, and RTB teams to transition solutions into long-term operational ownership.
• Provide rollout coordination, documentation, and end-user communication for DevEx-related changes in UAT and PROD.

Primary Technical Skills

• macOS engineering (including Desktop Virtualization) and Windows engineering (including Dev Drive, WSLv2)
• Software packaging for macOS and Windows
• Scripting: shell, PowerShell, Python
• ServiceNow, Intune, Artifactory and MS Power Platform
• Understanding of SDLC tooling, developer workflows, and endpoint security controls

HCLTech is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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