Application Packaging Engineer

Application Packaging Engineer

About lts

• Remote (U.S.)
• If you’re ready to push boundaries, sharpen your skills, and join a team that is passionate about building what’s next, we’d love to meet you. Apply today and let’s build a future together!

Responsibilities

• to support enterprise Windows application packaging and deployment for a large federal environment within the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)’s enterprise IT.
• This position will collaborate with stakeholders to understand business and technical requirements, develop reliable packaging solutions, and ensure seamless integration within the VA's enterprise IT environment.
• This role owns the full lifecycle of application packaging — from gathering requirements through building, testing, and deploying production-ready packages at scale.
• This is a hands-on technical role for someone who has lived inside Windows Installer technology and enjoys solving the kind of deep, detail-oriented problems that come with packaging software for thousands of endpoints reliably and repeatably.
• Build silent installation packages in MSI, MST, and MSIX formats and validate them through initial installation testing on Windows 11
• Engage directly with internal customers to gather packaging requirements and translate them into technical documentation and solutions that scale to a large enterprise environment
• Perform complete end-to-end packaging activities — source validation, build, testing, deployment, and production support
• Troubleshoot packaging and deployment issues using ProcMon, MSI verbose logging, and Windows Event Logs; identify root cause and implement corrective action quickly
• Query and modify Windows Registry as part of packaging and deployment workflows
• Participate in peer review of packages to ensure quality and consistency with project standards
• Ensure all prerequisites, dependencies, and organizational packaging/deployment standards are accounted for in every solution delivered

Requirements

• U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident required with the ability to obtain a Public Trust
• 4–6+ years of hands-on application packaging experience, including extensive use of Flexera AdminStudio
• Knowledge of Active Directory, Microsoft Registry, and ability to query or modify settings

Experience using Flexera AdminStudio and Install Shield

• Demonstrated experience troubleshooting packaging issues using ProcMon, MSI logging, and Windows Event Logs
• Deep familiarity with Windows Installer internals (MSI tables, custom actions, transforms, component rules, repair behavior, reboot handling and logging)

Knowledge of PowerShell and/or CMD scripting is essential

• U.S. Citizen and the ability to achieve Public Trust Clearance at the Department of Veterans Affairs
• Understanding of Windows Installer technology (custom actions, transforms, ICE validation, component rules, repair behavior, reboot handling, and logging)
• Experience testing, validating, and certifying Windows platform and application compatibility, including interoperability with technologies such as Citrix
• Experience performing application performance analysis and troubleshooting using Microsoft and commercial toolsets to evaluate CPU, memory, disk I/O, network latency, and bandwidth utilization
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills with the ability to develop effective technical solutions
• Demonstrated experience in a remote work environment
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills as well as the ability to collaborate and work effectively with customers, stakeholders and cross-functional teams in both independent and team-based environments
• Strong attention to detail and solid documentation skills

Preferred

• 3-5 years of IT system administration experience
• Experience with PSADT (PowerShell App Deployment Toolkit)
• Experience with Intune/Entra for application and device management
• Prior experience supporting the Department of Veterans Affairs or another federal organization
• Demonstrated experience working in Scrum/Agile delivery environments

Pay

$116,000.00 - $122,000.00

$116,000

$122,000 USD shares salary ranges to promote transparency. Compensation ranges are provided for informational purposes, and final compensation may vary based on experience, skills, location, and role requirements.

Benefits

• The opportunity to support high visibility federal missions in IT and healthcare
• A culture that values innovation, growth, collaboration, and quality
• Access to cutting-edge tools and technologies
• A career path that rewards ambition and performance
• is committed to offering eligible employees comprehensive benefits that will provide them with options intended to meet their needs and the needs of their family.