Enterprise Desktop Engineer (TS/SCI /w polygraph required)

General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc.; Maryland; On-site; USD 136,000 - 184,000; Full time

Job summary

General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc. in Annapolis Junction, MD is seeking an Enterprise Desktop Engineer to design, build, and optimize Windows desktop platforms across a large enterprise.

You will own deployment lifecycles, automate tasks with PowerShell, and partner with engineering teams to deliver secure, reliable endpoint solutions. Requires 8+ years of experience, a Bachelor’s degree, TS/SCI w/Poly, US citizenship, and 8570 compliance with Security+.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 8+ years of related experience.
• US citizenship required.
• TS/SCI w/Poly clearance required.
• 8570 compliant with a Security+ Certification.

Responsibilities

• Engineer enterprise desktop platforms by designing, building, maintaining, and optimizing Windows and thin-client images.
• Own application deployment and lifecycle engineering, from packaging and configuration through deployment, upgrades, and removal.
• Automate tasks with PowerShell and other scripting languages to improve consistency, speed, and reliability.
• Analyze OS, apps, configs, logs, and network dependencies to identify root causes of issues.
• Design and implement capabilities to improve endpoint reliability, performance, and security.

Skills

Windows desktop engineering

PowerShell scripting

Analytical troubleshooting

Independent work

Communication

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science

Tools

PowerShell

Job description

Enterprise Desktop Engineer

Engineer the Enterprise Desktop Experience. Are you the engineer people turn to when a problem is too complex for a standard fix? Join a high-performing enterprise engineering team where you will design, automate, troubleshoot, and continuously improve the desktop platforms used across a large-scale enterprise environment.

This is not traditional desktop support—you will engineer the platforms, solve difficult technical problems, and help shape how the next generation of the enterprise desktop is delivered. You will have the opportunity to work across Windows and HPE ThinPro environments, enterprise application deployment, endpoint management, automation, security, networking, authentication, and infrastructure. You will work alongside engineers across multiple technology disciplines, giving you the opportunity to deepen your expertise while expanding your skills beyond a single technology silo.

What You’ll Do

• Engineer enterprise desktop platforms by designing, building, maintaining, and optimizing Windows and thin-client images.


• Own application deployment and lifecycle engineering, from packaging and configuration through enterprise deployment, upgrades, and removal.


• Automate the work that should not be done manually, using PowerShell and other scripting technologies to improve consistency, speed, and reliability.


• Solve complex technical problems by analyzing operating systems, applications, configurations, logs, authentication, networking, and system dependencies to identify root cause.


• Design and implement new capabilities that improve endpoint reliability, performance, security, and user experience.


• Partner across engineering disciplines to move technology from concept through implementation and into production.


• Continuously improve the environment, challenging inefficient processes and identifying opportunities to make enterprise endpoint operations smarter, faster, and more reliable.

You will be trusted to take ownership, investigate problems, develop solutions, and execute with limited oversight. We value engineers who are curious, creative, technically driven, and willing to challenge the way things have always been done.

Why This Role?

You won’t spend your career simply following someone else’s procedure. You will build the platform, automate the process, solve the difficult problem, and improve what comes next. If you enjoy understanding how technology really works, connecting the dots across systems, and turning complex problems into reliable enterprise solutions, this is an opportunity to make an impact at scale. Build it. Automate it. Solve it. Improve it.

Required

• Experience engineering, administering, or supporting enterprise Windows desktop environments.


• Experience building, maintaining, or deploying Windows desktop images.


• Experience with application installation, packaging, configuration, deployment, or lifecycle management.


• Experience with PowerShell or another scripting/programming language.


• Education: Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science.


• Experience: 8+ years of related experience.


• Security clearance level: TS/SCI w/Poly.


• US citizenship required.


• Role requirements: Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills with the ability to identify root cause. Ability to work independently, manage competing priorities, and operate effectively in a fast-paced engineering environment. Strong communication and collaboration skills.


• Certification: Must be 8570 compliant with a Security + Certification.

What You’ll Need To Succeed

Bring your technology expertise and drive for innovation to GDIT. The Enterprise Desktop Engineer must have:

• Education: Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science.


• Experience: 8+ years of related experience.


• Security clearance level: TS/SCI w/Poly.


• US citizenship required.


• Role requirements: Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills with the ability to identify root cause. Ability to work independently, manage competing priorities, and operate effectively in a fast-paced engineering environment. Strong communication and collaboration skills.


• Certification: Must be 8570 compliant with a Security + Certification.

Location

Annapolis Junction, MD.

GDIT IS YOUR PLACE

At GDIT, the mission is our purpose, and our people are at the center of everything we do.

Rewards

Rewards: Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages, 401K with company match, and competitive pay and paid time off.

Growth

Growth: AI-powered career tool that identifies career steps and learning opportunities.

Support

Support: An internal mobility team focused on helping you achieve your career goals.

Community

Community: Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace.

Salary

The likely salary range for this position is $136,000 - $184,000. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Total Rewards at GDIT

• Medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts.


• Dental plan options.


• Vision plan.


• 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match.


• Full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave.


• Short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance.


• Regular review to ensure offerings remain competitive.

Identity Verification Process

As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during virtual interviews. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud. By proceeding, you authorize the collection, processing, and use of your biometric data for identity verification and security purposes.

About Our Work

We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers technology solutions and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 26,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. We operate across 50+ countries worldwide, offering leading mission-ready capabilities in AI, cloud, cyber and software development.

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