Senior macOS System Engineer

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Salary: $110,000 - $125,000 per year

A bit about us:

We are a large, established organization with a diverse portfolio of businesses and a global technology environment. Our enterprise technology teams build and support the secure, reliable, and modern platforms that enable employees to work effectively across locations and business units.

The Endpoint Engineering team is responsible for delivering scalable device-management solutions, strengthening endpoint security, and modernizing the employee technology experience. The team works closely with Information Security, Infrastructure, Identity, Networking, and Support teams to ensure endpoint services remain secure, resilient, and aligned with evolving business needs.

Why join us?

This is an opportunity to serve as a senior technical authority for macOS engineering within a complex, large-scale enterprise environment. You will have the ability to shape endpoint strategy, lead modernization and automation initiatives, and influence how Apple devices are securely managed throughout their lifecycle.

You will join a collaborative technology organization where you can:

Take ownership of enterprise macOS engineering and platform architecture
Lead high-impact automation, security, and modernization initiatives
Work with modern endpoint-management and cloud-identity technologies
Solve complex technical challenges across a large, distributed environment
Partner with experienced professionals across Security, Identity, Infrastructure, and Networking
Mentor other engineers and help establish endpoint-engineering standards and best practices

Job Details

Position Overview

The Senior macOS Systems Engineer is responsible for engineering, maintaining, automating, and securing the organization's macOS endpoint ecosystem and its supporting infrastructure. This individual will serve as a senior technical resource for macOS device management, endpoint security, automation, and enterprise client-engineering initiatives.

As a member of the Endpoint Engineering team, this role will focus on delivering scalable, secure, and modern management solutions for macOS devices across a global enterprise environment. Responsibilities include endpoint lifecycle management, operating-system deployment, application packaging, software distribution, patch management, security compliance, automation, and platform optimization.

The ideal candidate brings deep macOS platform expertise, strong engineering and scripting capabilities, and the ability to lead complex technical initiatives while maintaining the stability and reliability of critical endpoint services.

Key Responsibilities
Endpoint Engineering and Platform Management
Serve as the senior macOS subject-matter expert for endpoint-engineering operations, technical initiatives, and escalations.
Engineer, administer, maintain, and optimize enterprise macOS management platforms, including Jamf Pro and Iru.
Design scalable endpoint-provisioning and lifecycle-management workflows integrated with cloud-based identity environments.
Manage macOS operating-system deployment, configuration management, software distribution, and patch-management processes.
Establish and maintain standardized endpoint configurations across the enterprise.
Implement and enforce device-compliance policies and enterprise technology standards.
Evaluate platform capabilities and recommend improvements that enhance scalability, reliability, security, and the employee experience.
Automation and Scripting
Develop and maintain scripts, tooling, and automated workflows that improve operational efficiency and reduce manual administration.
Create and maintain application packages, deployment automations, and self-service software-delivery solutions.
Write advanced Bash and Python scripts supporting device provisioning, compliance, reporting, monitoring, remediation, and lifecycle management.
Identify opportunities to automate repeatable processes and improve the overall maturity of endpoint operations.
Build reliable and reusable solutions that can scale across a large enterprise environment.
Security and Compliance
Partner with Information Security teams to establish and maintain macOS security baselines and endpoint-hardening standards.
Engineer automated patching, vulnerability-management, and remediation processes.
Support endpoint-compliance programs and respond to critical vulnerabilities and security incidents.
Ensure endpoint-management platforms align with enterprise security, auditing, risk, and governance requirements.
Develop monitoring and reporting capabilities that provide visibility into endpoint health, vulnerabilities, and compliance status.
Infrastructure and Operations
Monitor the performance, availability, capacity, and overall health of endpoint-management platforms.
Troubleshoot and resolve complex macOS, endpoint-engineering, and supporting infrastructure…