Senior App Packaging Engineer — Modernize Enterprise

Relha LLC

Warren (MI)

On-site

USD 110,000 - 160,000

Full time

9 days ago

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Job summary

General Motors is seeking a Senior Application Packaging Engineer to define and continuously improve how end-user applications are packaged, tested, deployed, updated, and maintained across Windows, macOS, Linux, and other endpoints.

You will modernize packaging practices, drive automation, and shape agile deployment models while coordinating with engineering, security, infrastructure, and service operations to ensure reliable delivery and minimal disruption.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
6+ years in application packaging, endpoint engineering, endpoint management, client engineering, or related infrastructure roles.
Strong hands‑on experience packaging and deploying applications in enterprise platforms such as SCCM, Intune, JAMF, Landscape, Chef, or similar tools.
Experience designing and executing deployment campaigns for applications with varying update frequencies and business criticality.
Experience building application packages with silent install, detection logic, dependency handling, version control, and uninstall support.
Experience supporting application deployment across Windows, macOS, Linux, and/or VDI in a medium‑to‑large enterprise environment.
Strong understanding of deployment ring strategies, pilot validation, change control, rollback planning, and end user communication for software releases.
Experience with scripting and automation using PowerShell, Bash, Python, or similar technologies.
Excellent communication skills and ability to work across engineering, security, infrastructure, service operations, and business partners.

Responsibilities

Own the application packaging and deployment engineering strategy as part of the End User Engineering mission.
Reshape and redesign the packaging process into a modern, agile model leveraging automation and reusable patterns.
Simplify packaging approaches for standardization and low‑touch delivery.
Package, test, and maintain enterprise applications for deployment across SCCM, Intune, JAMF, and similar tooling.
Design and operate deployment campaigns supporting cadences from multiple times per week to quarterly with minimal user disruption.
Build and maintain packaging standards for installation, updates, patching, uninstall, rollback, and remediation.
Develop silent install packages, detection methods, dependency handling, pre‑flight checks, post‑install validation, and user communications.
Create phased deployment strategies using pilots, ring‑based rollouts, maintenance windows, and controlled releases.
Collaborate with application owners, security teams, and support to validate readiness, licensing, and deployment requirements.
Automate recurring packaging, testing, deployment, and reporting to improve consistency and speed.
Troubleshoot packaging failures, deployment issues, and endpoint‑specific challenges across platforms.
Define and track operational metrics related to deployment success, failure rates, user disruption, and remediation outcomes.
Maintain packaging documentation, runbooks, and support guidance for packaged apps and deployment processes.
Contribute to roadmap planning by identifying modernization opportunities for delivery and end‑user experience.