Senior Endpoint Automation Engineer

$100 - $119 per hour | New York, NY | Remote | Consulting

We are a global media, technology, and information services organization with a diverse portfolio of businesses and a strong commitment to innovation. Our technology teams support a complex, enterprise-scale environment, leveraging modern infrastructure, cloud technologies, security platforms, and automation to improve how our businesses operate.

We are continuously investing in technology modernization, operational efficiency, and emerging capabilities, including AI-driven automation. Our teams work collaboratively across engineering, infrastructure, and cybersecurity to solve meaningful technical challenges and develop scalable, long-term solutions.

• Fully Remote Opportunity:
  Work remotely from anywhere within the United States while collaborating with experienced engineering and security teams.
• High-Impact Project:
  Take ownership of complex endpoint engineering challenges and deliver measurable improvements across an enterprise environment.
• Modern Technology Stack:
  Work with Microsoft Intune, Iru/Kandji, Crowd Strike, Tenable, and enterprise automation technologies.
• Automation-Focused Engineering:
  Build scalable solutions that eliminate recurring issues and reduce manual intervention.
• Innovation & AI:
  Leverage scripting, APIs, data analytics, and AI-assisted engineering to improve endpoint management and security operations.
• Ownership & Autonomy:
  Drive technical solutions from root-cause analysis through implementation, with the opportunity to make a lasting impact.

We are seeking an experienced Senior Endpoint Automation Engineer for a six-month contract engagement focused on improving endpoint management health, vulnerability patching, and operational automation across enterprise Windows and macOS environments.

This is a highly hands-on engineering position designed to address persistent operational challenges through root-cause analysis, advanced scripting, data correlation, and automated remediation.

The successful candidate will work across Microsoft Intune, Iru/Kandji, Tenable, Crowd Strike, and related platforms to identify why endpoints fall out of management, diagnose patching failures, reconcile inconsistent compliance data, and implement automated solutions that prevent issues from recurring.

This is not a traditional endpoint administration, support, or architecture role. We are looking for an engineer who can investigate complex issues, build effective automation, and deliver measurable operational improvements.

• Investigate Windows and macOS devices that stop communicating with endpoint management platforms.
• Establish automated monitoring to identify endpoints that fail to check in within defined time frames.
• Diagnose root causes involving agent health, connectivity, identity, certificates, configuration, and device state.
• Develop automated workflows to identify, classify, and remediate inactive or noncompliant devices.
• Automate the identification and removal of retired devices across MDM, directory, identity, and security platforms.
• Improve endpoint inventory accuracy and eliminate stale or conflicting device records.

• Investigate operating system and application patching failures across Windows and macOS environments.
• Identify and resolve the underlying causes of devices remaining unpatched beyond established SLAs.
• Correlate data across Microsoft Intune, Iru/Kandji, Tenable, Crowd Strike, and inventory platforms to validate patch compliance.
• Investigate discrepancies between endpoint management, security, and vulnerability reporting systems.
• Build automated remediation, monitoring, and escalation workflows for patching failures.
• Establish reliable compliance reporting that accurately reflects endpoint security and vulnerability exposure.

• Design, develop, and implement scalable automation using Power Shell, Python, Bash, APIs, and existing enterprise tooling.
• Replace repetitive manual processes with reliable, repeatable workflows.
• Automate endpoint cleanup, agent remediation, patch troubleshooting, and compliance reporting.
• Develop scripts and integrations to identify recurring issues and initiate corrective action.
• Incorporate appropriate error handling, logging, validation, and exception management into automated workflows.
• Document automated solutions and transfer knowledge to…