Modern Endpoint Consultant (Intune)

Sword is a leading provider of business technology solutions within the Energy, Public and Finance Sectors, driving transformational change within our clients. We use proven technology, specialist teams and domain expertise to build solid technical foundations across platforms, data, and business applications. We have a passion for using technology to solve business problems, working in partnership with our clients to help in achieving their goals.

About the role:

Working within our Digital Services Practice as a Modern Endpoint Consultant you will work within a talented team who are passionate about software development and delivering business value to our customers.

As Sword are an established Microsoft Gold partner, you will experience the latest Microsoft technologies and grow your skills through exciting and challenging projects and the opportunity to attain Microsoft certification.

Heres what the role looks like:

Essential Experience

• Comprehensive understanding of Endpoint Management with Intune
• Deploying and managing modern managed Endpoints
• Windows 10/11 along with update rings / servicing / Windows AutoPatch
• Autopilot and device provisioning models
• Application packaging, deployment and testing
• Comprehensive understanding of Active Directory and Entra ID
• Security baselines and standards (NSCS/Microsoft/CIS etc.)
• Windows Hello for Business
• Cloud LAPS
• Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
• MDM/MAM/EMM with Intune (Android/iOS)
• Windows Defender Application Control (WDAC) and AppLocker
• Office Apps baselines and deployment
• Entra Connect Sync & Cloud Sync
• Entra Conditional Access
• Entra MFA
• Certificate management

Desirable Experience

• Co-Management capabilities and integrations with Config Manager
• Security Copilot
• Intune Suite services and capabilities
• Microsoft Tunnel (VPN)
• Deploying and managing Cloud PC (Windows 365)
• Designing and deploying Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD)
• PowerShell scripting
• RBAC
• Entra ID Dynamic Groups and Queries
• PowerBI Dashboards for Endpoint status visualisation
• Good understanding of Microsoft 365 workloads

Key Technical Skills:

• Ability to work collaboratively within a team
• Proven track record for designing/delivering complex solutions for a range of customers, from Mid-market to Enterprise scale
• 5+ years of experience in either a channel, vendor or customer side hands-on technical consulting role
• Experience of designing and successfully delivering solutions, including supporting the production of proposals, SoWs, high-level designs, RFP responses, roadmaps and strategies
• Strong background of producing high quality documentation and solution artefacts
• Microsoft MS-102, MD-102, AZ-104, AZ-900, SC-900 not essential but valued for the role
• SC and/or NPPV3 beneficial but not essential

Requirements

Here are the key skills and experience relevant to this role:

• Good organisational and decision-making skills
• Excellent communication skills
• Self-motivated and looking for a challenge
• Naturally proactive
• Passionate, professional and with a can-do attitude at all times
• Excellent organisational and time management skills
• Fast learner and able to adapt to new technology and keep abreast of current industry trends and best practices

Benefits

At Sword, our core values and culture are based on caring about our people, investing in training and career development, and building inclusive teams where we are all encouraged to contribute to achieve success.

We offer comprehensive benefits designed to support your professional development and enhance your overall quality of life. In addition to a Competitive Salary, here's what you can expect as part of our benefits package:

Personalised Career Development: We create a development plan customised to your goals and aspirations, with a range of learning and development opportunities within a culture that encourages growth.

Flexible working: Flexible work arrangements to support your work-life balance. We cant promise to always be able to meet every request, however, are keen to discuss your individual preferences to make it work where we can.

A Fantastic Benefits Package: This includes generous annual leave allowance, enhanced family friendly benefits, pension scheme, access to private health, well-being, and insurance schemes, an employee assistance programme, discounted cash plan and more.

At Sword we are dedicated to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace and are proud to be an equal opportunities employer, ensuring that all applicants receive fair and equal consideration for employment, regardless of whether they meet every requirement. If you dont tick all the boxes but feel you have some of the relevant skills and experience were looking for, please do consider applying and highlight your transferable skills and experience. We embrace diversity in all its forms, valuing individuals regardless of age, disability, gender identity or reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation. Your perspective and potential are important to us.

If we can do anything to help make the hiring process more accessible, please let our talent acquisition team know when you apply so we can support any adjustments.

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