Description

Lead complex Windows OS Engineering initiatives focused on Windows Server platform modernization, image lifecycle, patch automation, compliance, and operational readiness.
Architect and improve Windows Server golden image pipelines for on-premises virtualization, bare-metal, and public cloud environments.
Lead Windows Server 2025 engineering readiness, production release activities, lifecycle documentation, layered product alignment, and catalog readiness.
Design and implement automated image creation and validation workflows using tools such as Packer, GitHub Actions, Ansible, PowerShell, CI/CD pipelines, and GitOps-aligned processes.
Lead Windows patch and update engineering improvements, including WSUS-related capabilities, update orchestration, validation, rollback patterns, and change-control alignment.
Drive Windows security baseline implementation, GPO configuration governance, CIS-aligned controls, drift detection, remediation automation, and audit-ready evidence generation.
Partner with security, risk, cloud, operations, software delivery, storage, virtualization, and application teams to ensure Windows platforms are secure, supportable, observable, and consumable at scale.
Improve integration of enterprise tooling in Windows images, including monitoring, logging, endpoint/security controls, vulnerability scanning, certificate trust, Azure Arc, MECM/SCCM, and related operational agents.
Lead automation parity improvements across Windows and Linux OS Engineering where common patterns can reduce risk and increase consistency.
Provide technical oversight for RackN/bare-metal provisioning, hardware certification, storage certification, failover clustering, and platform enablement activities.
Mentor engineers, review technical designs, guide troubleshooting, and establish reusable engineering standards and runbooks.
Use observability and analytics to improve Windows image build success/failure tracking, patch outcomes, compliance visibility, and proactive issue detection.

Required Qualifications:
5+ years of Windows Server engineering, platform engineering, infrastructure automation, or equivalent enterprise infrastructure experience.
Strong hands-on experience with Windows Server platforms, including Windows Server 2019, 2022, and/or 2025.
Experience designing, building, hardening, and maintaining Windows Server golden images or standardized OS builds.
Strong automation experience with PowerShell, Ansible for Windows, Git, GitHub, and CI/CD pipeline workflows.
Experience with Windows patching ecosystems such as WSUS, MECM/SCCM, update rings, maintenance windows, and rollback planning.
Experience with Active Directory, DNS, GPO, certificate services, Windows security controls, and enterprise authentication patterns.
Experience implementing security baselines, CIS/STIG-aligned controls, configuration drift management, or compliance remediation.
Experience working in regulated delivery environments with change control, evidence collection, traceability, audit readiness, and controlled releases.
Ability to lead technical design, mentor engineers, and drive execution across infrastructure, operations, security, and application teams.

Desired Qualifications:
Experience with Packer, image factory patterns, automated VM image lifecycle, or immutable infrastructure practices.
Experience publishing or managing Windows images in Azure and/or GCP.
Experience with Azure Arc, Azure Update Manager, public cloud governance, or hybrid cloud operating models.
Experience with RackN, bare-metal provisioning, hardware certification, firmware automation, or virtualization platform integration.
Experience with Windows Failover Clustering, storage integrations, PowerMax, PowerFlex, Pure, or Cisco UCS certification.
Experience with Grafana, Splunk, Power BI, or other observability and analytics platforms.
Experience with GitOps, infrastructure-as-code, configuration-as-code, or PR-based infrastructure delivery.
Strong executive communication skills with the ability to summarize technical risk, delivery blockers, roadmap dependencies, and engineering outcomes

Key Skills

Education

Bachelor's degree