App Packaging Specialist

ASM Research$90K — $120K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Engineering; Master's Degree preferred.
  • 6+ years of relevant experience in software packaging and deployment.

Responsibilities

  • Automate the generation and installation of executable software.
  • Design and maintain software test automation frameworks.
  • Lead a team in developing and maintaining application software.
  • Package and test applications for enterprise deployment across multiple platforms.
  • Ensure application compliance with security policies and management tooling.
  • Troubleshoot packaging issues and coordinate with application owners.
  • Maintain a comprehensive application catalog.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to mentor junior team members and contribute to performance appraisals.
  • Involvement in significant modernization efforts like UEM and Intune.
  • Exposure to a variety of deployment platforms including Windows, iOS, and Android.
  • Engagement with security and platform engineering in a collaborative environment.
Full Job 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.

Minimum 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.

Other Job Specific Skills
  • 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.


Compensation Ranges

Compensation ranges for ASM Research positions vary depending on multiple factors; including but not limited to, location, skill set, level of education, certifications, client requirements, contract-specific affordability, government clearance and investigation level, and years of experience. The compensation displayed for this role is a general guideline based on these factors and is unique to each role. Monetary compensation is one component of ASM's overall compensation and benefits package for employees.

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