Senior Windows Endpoint Architect

📌 Hiring: Senior Windows Endpoint Architect

📍 Location: Remote

🕒 Job Type: Long Term Contract

We are looking for a US-based Senior Windows Endpoint Architect with strong engineering expertise in Windows endpoint architecture, enterprise imaging, endpoint management, application performance analysis, and Windows performance optimization.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, architect, and implement enterprise-scale Windows endpoint environments.
• Develop and maintain Windows imaging and deployment solutions using enterprise imaging technologies.
• Manage and optimize endpoint platforms, including Microsoft Intune, MECM/SCCM, Autopilot, and Group Policy.
• Analyze application and operating system performance issues across Windows endpoints.
• Perform advanced Windows performance tuning, troubleshooting, and optimization.
• Develop standardized Windows builds, images, configurations, and deployment processes.
• Troubleshoot complex issues involving CPU, memory, disk, network, boot, login, and application performance.
• Work closely with application, infrastructure, security, and engineering teams to identify and resolve endpoint-related issues.
• Establish endpoint architecture standards, engineering best practices, and performance baselines.
• Automate endpoint management and deployment activities using PowerShell and other scripting/automation tools.
• Evaluate new Microsoft and Windows technologies and recommend improvements to the enterprise endpoint environment.
• Provide senior-level technical leadership and mentor other engineers.

Required Skills

• 10+ years of experience in Windows endpoint engineering/architecture.
• Strong expertise in Windows 10/11 enterprise environments.
• Extensive experience with enterprise imaging and deployment.
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Intune, MECM/SCCM, Windows Autopilot, Group Policy, and Active Directory/Entra ID.
• Hands-on experience with Windows performance analysis and optimization.
• Strong application performance troubleshooting experience.
• Advanced knowledge of Windows internals, processes, services, registry, drivers, and system configuration.
• Strong PowerShell scripting and automation skills.
• Experience with endpoint security, configuration management, and enterprise policy enforcement.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex endpoint issues and identify root causes using performance and diagnostic tools.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint.
• Knowledge of Azure Virtual Desktop / Windows 365 Cloud PC.
• Experience with FSLogix and profile management.
• Knowledge of Omnissa Horizon / VMware technologies is a plus.
• Experience with enterprise application packaging and deployment.
• Familiarity with tools such as Windows Performance Analyzer (WPA), Windows Performance Recorder (WPR), ProcMon, ProcDump, and Event Viewer.
• Experience working in large enterprise or Fortune 500 environments.