Windows OS Engineer

NTT Data Americas, Inc.; Irving (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

NTT DATA is seeking a Sys. Integration Sr. Specialist Advisor to join our Irving, TX team. You will lead Windows OS engineering initiatives, modernize image lifecycles, and drive automation across on-premises and cloud environments.

Responsibilities include designing automated image creation workflows, leading patch and update orchestration, enforcing CIS-based security controls, and guiding cross-functional teams to ensure secure, observable, and scalable Windows platforms.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Job description

Company Overview

Req ID: 383027

We are currently seeking a Sys. Integration Sr. Specialist Advisor to join our team in Irving, Texas (US-TX), United States (US).

Job 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.

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