Desktop Engineer Job

Posted by nowinter19@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 31 comments

Applied for a Desktop Engineering job which will be a potential $36k - $44k (well over $100k base) bump on my career financially speaking. It focuses more around Intune and virtualization.

Got booked for my 3rd interview before visiting the office for a final interview.

Hope I get it. My family’s quality of life will improve for sure!!

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Acceptable_Map_8989@reddit

Over 100k for desktop engineer? Maybe I should move to US lol

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Junior-Warning2568@reddit

I have two of my senior desktop engineers that are making $170k and the other $165k.

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Jesus, still don't know what desktop engineers day to day is like, is it just support mixed with endpoint management like intune?? if so in EU this would be an extraordinary amounts of money for the role.. then again most of our companies don't bring nowhere near the numbers an average company in US does, I've seen some entry level positions pay more than senior over here.

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Junior-Warning2568@reddit

Our guys have very deep knowledge of SCCM, and handle a lot of the vulnerability management of end points, along with overseeing the GPOs and STIG settings (on end points not servers) on all of our four enclaves - two unclassified ones, a Secret and Top Secret network. Most of them all tend to have more sysadmin type expertise. I'm not a fan of the Desktop Engineer name myself, I can of inherited it from a previous team who was here.

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nowinter19@reddit (OP)

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RagingITguy@reddit

I do what the OP is saying. I'm getting nowhere close to 100k base (and I'm paid in CAD). I quite literally run the entire SCCM and Intune stack.

Time for me to look elsewhere. Holy crap.

And this endpoint management is just part of my job.

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deltashmelta@reddit

Compared to SCCM, the intune stack is more like a stack of pancakes with too much syrup soaking in, and it's just barely holding together. Most operations move as fast as the syrup on ice, and are about as deterministic as a standard-issue house cat.

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RagingITguy@reddit

You hit it on the head. I have a toxic relationship with Intune. It as predictable as a psychotic ex, and you're forced to live with them as they get crazier every day.

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deltashmelta@reddit

God help those that chose the hybrid option.

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Acceptable_Map_8989@reddit

Titles mean nothing sometimes, being L1 tech or "In house" IT for a super rich company can pay more than being Tech lead or service manager for an MSP with 3 times the work and knowledge required..

seen it happen a guy with 20 years of experience, knowledge and implementation on soo many systems and operations, everything networking, endpoint,cyberm firewalls EVERYTHING.. not to go too much into detail .. but brilliant engineer and constantly still upskilling, getting paid 60K a year, and L1 tech 2 years in the industry working inhouse for a big solicitor dealing with day to day end user issues (0 infra and networking .. and i mean 0 escalates immediately) and he was on 75k , plus the benefits when he told me had me questioning my career path (Sysadmin 5 years)

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nowinter19@reddit (OP)

I think it should be called endpoint engineer. Sounds better lol

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NoReallyLetsBeFriend@reddit

What state are you in? I'm a sys admin not even touching 100k in IL

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nowinter19@reddit (OP)

I’m near Boston, MA

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Acceptable_Map_8989@reddit

Same thing no? All these titles always have me curious. What are the day to day for this role ??

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PreparetobePlaned@reddit

Not OP but typically: Creating application packages, app patching, configuration policies, update policies, writing automation scripts, compliance policies, building out enrollment process, client certificate management, managing deployment groups for all of the above, building reports.

Lots of iterative testing and scripting if it's a big org where you need to do a lot of custom automation and reporting.

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ZAFJB@reddit

My family’s quality of life will improve for sure!!

Don't go mad with the extra income. Try and save some of it.

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AdministrativeFile78@reddit

Awesome !

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ThePhantomPotato@reddit

NZ here, far out…

I’m in quite a senior role but for that salary I’m keen to send over my c.v.

Best of luck OP!

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