Staff Windows Services Engineer | Device Driver Engineer | Windows Kernel Mode

Ivanti is a global leader in IT systems and security management solutions, experiencing significant growth worldwide. The company is seeking a highly skilled Windows low-level software engineer to develop and maintain Windows kernel-mode and user-mode device drivers and services across multiple security products within the Secure Unified Endpoint Management portfolio.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain security Windows device drivers and services
• Modernization to adopt the latest Windows driver models, frameworks, and APIs
• Port drivers to new hardware platforms as required (e.g. Windows on ARM)
• Optimize existing drivers (storage, networking, etc.) for performance and reliability
• Manage Windows logo and certification pipelines (WHQL, SVVP, etc.) to ensure seamless installation and operation
• Collaborate with Product Managers and Technical Support to address technical issues across Ivanti’s wide customer base; triage and address incompatibilities, help define future feature capabilities as required
• Develop and maintain a framework for service and driver stability across multiple products ensuring continuous delivery capabilities with known high quality
• Ensure the broadest possible support for plugin hardware devices, networking and PC platforms throughout product offerings

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related engineering field
• 10+ years of Microsoft Windows software development experience
• 5+ years of experience with Windows device driver development (including Kernel-mode, and Windows Driver Model Drivers, Windows Driver Kit)
• Strong experience developing Windows services
• Windows kernel mode experience
• Advanced Kernel-level debugging skills (live systems and using crash dump analysis using debug/PDB files, WinDbg, Static Driver Verified and other related tools)
• Strong expertise in Windows Internals such as memory management, interrupt handling, I/O mechanisms, Kernel/ user mode boundaries, and multi-threading programming
• Strong team player with excellent communication skills
• Proven ability to design and architect solutions for enterprise environments
• Experience using Microsoft Azure DevOps (ADO) for tracking work items, bugs, and test cases
• Programming languages: C language, plus object-oriented programming language experience such as C++
• Platforms/Runtimes: Windows x86, x64, ARM architecture & .NET
• Technologies: Windows application development, Microsoft SQL, Microsoft Visual Studio, GitHub
• Strong grasp of secure code development practices
• Unit testing & automation testing
• 2+ years of Cloud services/SaaS with Azure or AWS
• Technologies: IIS, Web Services, Web Development, Jira, TLS
• Experience with Agile methodologies (Scrum or Kanban)
• Windows Kernel debugging, memory dump analysis, malware & rootkit analysis, reverse engineering (WinDbg, IDA)
• Extensive knowledge of Windows NT internals (both documented and undocumented)
• Procedural programming with C