Device Engineer - Digital Workplace Experience

Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company, operating 210 data centers across the globe and providing interconnections to all the key clouds and networks. Businesses need one place to simplify and bring together fragmented, complex infrastructure that spans private and public cloud environments. Our global platform allows customers to place infrastructure wherever they need it and connect it to everything they need to succeed. 

At Equinix, we help the world’s digital leaders scale with agility, speed the launch of digital services, deliver world-class experiences, and transform people’s lives. Our culture is based on collaboration and the growth and development of our teams.   

We hire hardworking people who thrive on solving challenging problems and give them opportunities to hone new skills, and try new approaches, as we grow our product portfolio with new software and network architecture solutions. We embrace diversity in thought and contribution and are committed to providing an equitable work environment that is foundational to our core values as a company and is vital to our success.  

Job Summary:

The Digital Workplace Experience team is looking for a dynamic and hands on engineer who would be responsible for enabling a productive & secure colleague computing experience by helping research, evaluate, deploy, and adopt new hardware, device management tools that help our global colleagues work seamlessly together in this new, rapidly evolving hybrid workplace.

The ideal candidate is a device enthusiast who finds fun in researching and deploying the latest and greatest devices and gadgets, setting up home labs, testing out virtual desktop and application technologies and wants to drive Equinix’s device strategy for its 13,000+ global colleagues. Has proven success at supporting PoCs, projects, enterprise deployments, vendors, and partners that drive for results that lead to real business value.  Someone that is passionate about a groundbreaking technology platform and improve colleague computing experience.

Key focus areas

• Strong strategic acumen and can translate vision into execution

• Create and maintain a future proof device strategy that delivers the best device and virtual access technologies for our multiple global workplace identities

• Fully automate the device, software, and virtual desktop onboarding and offboarding experience for windows, Mac and VDI platforms

Responsibilities                                                

• Researching, designing, and enabling a world class device experience for our global colleagues.

• Develop and continue to evolve the global device strategy and roadmap to deliver the most up to date technology to ensure a seamless colleague experience.

• Partner with cross-functional technology and design teams to integrate technology, operations and solution requirements into solution strategies.

• Hardware and Software evaluation and listing requirements, specifications and define test conditions.

• Identify issues and risks associated with work while being able to analyze and report test activities and results

• Build a user centric experience based on hardware and COTS software.

• Create project deliverable documentation, including design, build and operations guides

• Enhance and grow the global device catalogue by partnering with global device industry leaders

• Build a fully automated, self-service global software catalogue

• Partner with enterprise virtual workspace companies to provide seamless virtual desktop or application experience globally

• Completely automation of the device, software, and virtual desktop lifecycle

• Determine the appropriate technical path forward for platform adoption. Stay abreast of product upgrades, releases, and overall industry trends.

Qualifications

• 7+ years’ experience in system engineering/administration of Device Management, Saas, DaaS platforms (Windows, MacOS, MDM) in a Microsoft ecosystem for a globally diverse medium to large scale enterprise

• Bachelor's in Engineering or equivalent experience

• Recent experience with supporting and managing an enterprise scale VDI, MDM , Device management solution. (Microsoft Intune, Citrix VDI, JAMF is a plus)

• Proven success in leading diverse project teams and partners providing real world solutions to business problems that achieve high adoption and colleague satisfaction scores 

• Ability to create, foster and grow productivity and collaboration vendor partnerships

• Models after the Equinix core values of openness, honesty, service, courage, and growth to help ensure that we work with integrity and put the customer at the center of everything we do

At Equinix, we’re tasked with leading in the communities we serve — and doing our part to help keep our communities and our teams safe. Our #IamSafeIBelongIMatter culture transcends and informs all we do. In alignment with our culture, Equinix has implemented a vaccine or test policy that requires employees to show proof of full vaccination or get tested regularly to work onsite in an IBX or office. 

For CO residents: In accordance with Colorado State Law (https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb19-085) the salary range for this role is $77 – $108 per year with 20% bonus target. 

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Equinix is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a protected veteran, or status as a qualified individual with disability. 

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