Workplace IT Specialist
HybridBengaluru, Karnataka, India
Job Summary
Build one-touch employee lifecycle automation for onboarding and offboarding, engineer zero-touch device provisioning with Windows Autopilot and Intune, and automate routine IT operations using PowerShell, Microsoft Graph API, and REST APIs. Apply software engineering practices to IT by version-controlling scripts in Git, conducting code reviews, and treating configuration as code. Administer Microsoft 365 services and Entra ID, manage the Windows and macOS fleet with Intune, and provide Level 2/3 escalation support with a bias toward engineered fixes. Identify and eliminate toil by measuring hours saved, while documenting runbooks and mentoring junior engineers in scripting and modern workplace practices.
Required Qualifications
- 2–5 years in IT engineering, end-user computing, modern workplace, or IT infrastructure roles
- An engineering mindset: defaulting to automating problems away rather than resolving them manually
- Ability to show automation personally built and shipped
- Strong PowerShell skills
- Microsoft Graph API skills
- Hands-on administration of Microsoft Entra ID
- Azure administration experience
- Deep Microsoft 365 administration experience
- Modern endpoint management expertise
- Experience with Active Directory and Group Policy
- Experience with hybrid identity environments
- Solid networking fundamentals
- Excellent communication skills
- Customer empathy
- Ability to explain technical decisions to non-technical stakeholders
Desired Qualifications
- A track record of transforming traditional ITSM into modern workplace engineering
- Implementation of one-touch onboarding/offboarding
- Zero-touch provisioning
- Replacement of manual runbooks with automated workflows
- Git and modern development workflow experience
- Version-controlled scripts and configurations
- Pull requests and code review experience
- CI/CD pipelines experience (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps)
- Configuration-as-code exposure
- Infrastructure-as-code exposure (Terraform or Microsoft365DSC)
- Power Platform experience (Power Automate, Power Apps)
- Understanding of governance and when low-code vs pro-code is appropriate
- Python or another general-purpose scripting language
- Comfort working with REST APIs, JSON, and webhooks
- Experience using AI tools (e.g., Copilot, Claude) to accelerate scripting, documentation, and support workflows
- Experience helping roll such tooling out to employees
- Experience with virtualization platforms
- Experience with cloud services beyond M365
- Microsoft Certified: Endpoint Administrator Associate (MD-102)
- Microsoft 365 Administrator Expert (MS-102)
- Microsoft Applied Skills (Intune, Entra ID, Automation)
- ITIL Foundation certification
- CompTIA Network+ certification
- CompTIA Security+ certification
- Cisco CCNA certification
- Microsoft Power Platform Fundamentals certification
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