Responsible for creating and testing software installation packages for automated deployments, ensuring quality through UAT testing, maintaining documentation, and supporting deployment processes in an enterprise environment.
Description and Requirements
Position Summary
As a Software Packaging Specialist, responsible for monitoring Service-now queues for new, approved software packaging requests, you will play a pivotal role in validating requirements with Application Owners, maintaining comprehensive records of applications, owners, versions, and application status. Additionally, you will assist in the preparation of daily reports for customers or management, escalate incidents and requests as needed for timely resolution and customer satisfaction, and actively contribute to the development and maintenance of documentation. Participation in department and business-level projects and meetings is expected to ensure the prompt execution of technology initiatives and strategies.
Job Responsibilities
Education, Technical Skills & Other Critical Requirement
Education
Bachelor's degree (Any Stream) or diploma with a minimum of 15 years of education.
Experience
(In Years)
4-6 Year
Technical Skills
Excellent Keyboarding and data entry speed
Knowledge of Insurance principles in relation to the US Insurance industry is preferred
Knowledge about US Culture is preferred
Other Critical Requirements Like Voice/ Non-Voice for Insurance Ops
Non-Voice
Complexity Scale: 7/T5C5 (Rule & non-rule-based decision making, domain knowledge, extensive customer communication)
About MetLife
Recognized on Fortune magazine's list of the 2024 "World's Most Admired Companies" and Fortune World's 25 Best Workplaces™ for 2024, MetLife , through its subsidiaries and affiliates, is one of the world's leading financial services companies; providing insurance, annuities, employee benefits and asset management to individual and institutional customers. With operations in more than 40 markets, we hold leading positions in the United States, Latin America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.
Our purpose is simple - to help our colleagues, customers, communities, and the world at large create a more confident future. United by purpose and guided by empathy, we're inspired to transform the next century in financial services.
At MetLife, it's #AllTogetherPossible . Join us!
#BI-Hybrid
Position Summary
As a Software Packaging Specialist, responsible for monitoring Service-now queues for new, approved software packaging requests, you will play a pivotal role in validating requirements with Application Owners, maintaining comprehensive records of applications, owners, versions, and application status. Additionally, you will assist in the preparation of daily reports for customers or management, escalate incidents and requests as needed for timely resolution and customer satisfaction, and actively contribute to the development and maintenance of documentation. Participation in department and business-level projects and meetings is expected to ensure the prompt execution of technology initiatives and strategies.
Job Responsibilities
- Responsible for creating and testing Windows software installation packages for automated deployments in an Enterprise environment
- Experience in creating packaging for server operating system, mostly for Citric end user platform hosting on server platform.
- Initiates, plans, coordinates, designs, develops, and tests software distribution packages.
- Work with end customer to perform the UAT testing of the package before distribution of the package in production environment.
- End-to end support in packaging, testing , distributing in test and production rollout, help operations team in case of any failure in prod deployments
- Generate and maintain operational and other procedural documentation as needed
- Experience with multi-site, large environment with application package deployments using tools such System Center Configuration Manager, Intune, or equivalent technologies such as Chef Infra , Ansible
- Experience with producing complex software packages and software deployments
- Minimum of two years' experience in Config Management, SCCM, Intune or similar product for application packaging and distribution
- In-depth knowledge of operating systems (Windows Desktop OS 7/10/11, Windows Server 20XX Server). Ex. (DLL conflicts, Windows registry, environment variables, batch files, and client/ server operations/connectivity
- Strong knowledge in windows application package creation and installation using Windows installation components and third-party tools such as Admin Studio, InstallShield, Wise Studio, Orca
- Expertise in Windows automation scripting such as PowerShell, WMI, VBScript, PowerShell App Deployment Toolkit. PowerShell and App Deployment Kit strongly preferred
- Working knowledge in Microsoft,ÄØIntune,ÄØsoftware administration, software packaging and deployment
- Comprehensive knowledge and experience with Windows installer technologies such as MSI,,ÄØMSIX, AppX, virtualization, and other installer technologies. Candidate should also have a strong understanding of the following areas as relates to application packaging:
- MSI patches and transforms
- MSIX packaging and App
- MSI merge modules, macros, and custom actions
- Security modifications within MSI packages
- Installation impersonation (system, user etc.)
- Experience with DLL conflicts,
- Windows registry modifications
- Environment variables
- TCP/IP networks, Network Protocols
Education, Technical Skills & Other Critical Requirement
Education
Bachelor's degree (Any Stream) or diploma with a minimum of 15 years of education.
Experience
(In Years)
4-6 Year
Technical Skills
Excellent Keyboarding and data entry speed
Knowledge of Insurance principles in relation to the US Insurance industry is preferred
Knowledge about US Culture is preferred
Other Critical Requirements Like Voice/ Non-Voice for Insurance Ops
Non-Voice
Complexity Scale: 7/T5C5 (Rule & non-rule-based decision making, domain knowledge, extensive customer communication)
About MetLife
Recognized on Fortune magazine's list of the 2024 "World's Most Admired Companies" and Fortune World's 25 Best Workplaces™ for 2024, MetLife , through its subsidiaries and affiliates, is one of the world's leading financial services companies; providing insurance, annuities, employee benefits and asset management to individual and institutional customers. With operations in more than 40 markets, we hold leading positions in the United States, Latin America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.
Our purpose is simple - to help our colleagues, customers, communities, and the world at large create a more confident future. United by purpose and guided by empathy, we're inspired to transform the next century in financial services.
At MetLife, it's #AllTogetherPossible . Join us!
#BI-Hybrid
Top Skills
Admin Studio
Ansible
Appx
Chef Infra
Installshield
Intune
Msi
Msix
Orca
Powershell
Service-Now
System Center Configuration Manager
Vbscript
Windows
Wise Studio
Wmi
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