Desktop Engineer

We are HCLTech, one of the fastest-growing large tech companies in the world and home to 225,000+ people across 60 countries, supercharging progress through industry-leading capabilities centered around Digital, Engineering and Cloud. The driving force behind that work, our people, are diverse, creative, and passionate, raising the bar for excellence on a regular basis.

Overview The Desktop DevEx Engineer is responsible for designing, engineering, and implementing the target state developer experience on EUC endpoints across macOS and Windows. This role focuses on standardising the developer persona, eliminating exception-based processes, and ensuring secure, compliant, and efficient delivery of developer tooling and workspace configuration.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement processes for allocating, configuring, and maintaining EUC endpoints tailored to developer needs (Windows (Dev Drive, WSLv2, Docker Desktop), macOS (Desktop Virtualization, Docker Desktop).
• Engineer and automate the developer workspace setup, including configuration of API tokens, certificates, proxies, pipelines, and environment settings.
• Improve and standardize packaging and deployment processes for SDLC tools and software manufacturing utilities.

Contribute to the creation of a governance model for developer specific tooling, including:

• A package manager for rapid and compliant distribution.
• Auto update frameworks for key developer tools (e.g. major IDEs).
• Controls to mitigate unauthorized executables on endpoints.
• Support the design of secure, elevated access models for developers across developer devices.
• Collaborate with engineering, security, and RTB teams to transition solutions into long term operational ownership.
• Provide rollout coordination, documentation, and end-user communication for DevExrelated changes in UAT and PROD.

Primary Technical Skills

• macOS engineering (including Desktop Virtualization) and Windows engineering (including Dev Drive, WSLv2).
• Software packaging for macOS and Windows.
• Scripting: shell, PowerShell, Python.
• ServiceNow, Intune, Artifactory and MS Power Platform.
• Understanding of SDLC tooling, developer workflows, and endpoint security controls.

What do we offer?

• 25 holiday days per year.
• 1066 RON monthly budget in Benefit Online Platform.
• Life Insurance cover.
• The employees working on bank holidays will be benefitting either of a paid day off in the next 30 days + 100% of the hourly base salary for that specific day OR 200% of the hourly base salary for that specific day.
• Reimbursement for eyeglasses – max 1500 RON to be claimed every 3 years.
• Childbirth allowance of 7000 RON after 1 year in HCLTech.
• Internal trainings and certifications.

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