Remote SCCM to Intune Migration Engineer

Cognizant; Salt Lake City (UT); Remote; USD 100,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays + PTO

401(k) plan

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is hiring a SCCM & Intune Migration Engineer to drive enterprise endpoint modernization, migrating from SCCM/MECM to Intune and cloud‑based management. You will assess current environments, design migration strategies, and implement co‑management with a focus on security and Zero Trust principles.

The role requires 8+ years in endpoint management, strong expertise with SCCM, Intune, Entra ID, and Windows Autopilot.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in enterprise endpoint management.
• Strong expertise with Microsoft SCCM/MECM, Intune, and SCCM‑Intune Co‑management.
• Hands-on experience with Entra ID, Hybrid Join, Conditional Access, and Azure services.
• Experience architecting and implementing Windows Autopilot and modern endpoint management solutions.
• Strong PowerShell scripting, automation, and troubleshooting skills.
• Experience with application packaging, deployment, software distribution, and patch management.
• Knowledge of Defender for Endpoint, endpoint security, compliance, and Zero Trust principles.
• Experience leading large‑scale SCCM‑to‑Intune migration or endpoint modernization initiatives.
• Strong communication, stakeholder management, documentation, and solution design skills.

Responsibilities

• Assess existing SCCM/MECM environments and related areas.
• Develop and execute migration strategy to Intune and cloud‑based management.
• Design target‑state endpoint management architecture using Intune, Entra ID, and Autopilot.
• Configure and manage co‑management and transition workloads to Intune.
• Lead migration of configurations, policies, apps, scripts, and updates.
• Implement Entra ID Join/Hybrid Join and Autopilot provisioning.
• Perform compatibility assessments and remediation strategies.
• Plan pilot deployments and migration waves with minimal disruption.
• Establish governance, risk management, and success metrics.
• Develop KPI dashboards and executive status reports.
• Create architecture docs, runbooks, SOPs, and rollout procedures.
• Collaborate across Infrastructure, Security, Azure, Network, and App teams.
• Lead knowledge transfer, hypercare, and stabilization.

Skills

PowerShell scripting

Migration leadership

Endpoint management

Tools

Microsoft SCCM/MECM

Microsoft Intune

Microsoft Entra ID

Hybrid Join

Azure

Windows Autopilot

Conditional Access

Defender for Endpoint

Job description

Cognizant is hiring a SCCM & Intune Migration Engineer to drive enterprise endpoint modernization, migrating from SCCM/MECM to Intune and cloud‑based management. You will assess current environments, design migration strategies, and implement co‑management with a focus on security and Zero Trust principles.

The role requires 8+ years in endpoint management, strong expertise with SCCM, Intune, Entra ID, and Windows Autopilot.