IT/MDM QA Consultant (Remote, Part-Time Contract)

1 month ago
Contract
Senior
DevOps and Infrastructure
Sports Academy

Sports Academy

Sports Academy offers a transformative educational experience that integrates sports and academics, fostering resilience, teamwork, and leadership skills in students to prepare them for success in both their educational and personal lives.

Education Services
Founded 2014

Description

  • Review current QA processes for internal Mac tooling and identify gaps in testing and validation.
  • Audit MDM deployment workflows for packaging, installation, deployment, and rollback of PKGs across the Mac fleet.
  • Evaluate TCC and PPPC configurations to ensure privacy permissions are deployed cleanly and predictably.
  • Pressure-test the student experience on managed Macs during deployment, updates, and failure scenarios.
  • Identify brittle points, risks, and unprofessional user experiences in the managed Mac environment.
  • Advise engineering and IT teams with clear, practical recommendations they can act on.
  • Recommend tools, patterns, and standards to improve repeatability as the fleet and tooling scale.
  • Document findings clearly for technical stakeholders.

Requirements

  • Hands-on experience in managed Mac environments using Jamf, Kandji, Mosyle, Intune, or similar.
  • Experience with managed Mac software deployment, including PKGs, signing, notarization, and packaging for controlled rollout.
  • Fluency with TCC and PPPC configuration, including troubleshooting privacy permission issues on managed Macs.
  • Experience shipping, deploying, or QA'ing classroom, video conferencing, or student monitoring tools such as Zoom, GoGuardian, Jamf School, or Classroom.
  • Strong QA judgment and the ability to identify missing process controls quickly.
  • Ability to communicate findings clearly to engineering and IT stakeholders.
  • Fully remote setup.
  • Apple certifications such as ACSP, ACMT, or Apple Deployment and Management certifications (preferred).
  • Comfort with shell, Python, or Swift for automating Mac fleet management tasks (preferred).
  • Awareness of student data privacy, FERPA, and compliance considerations for device management (preferred).

Benefits

  • Competitive contract rate based on experience.
  • Part-time consulting engagement.
  • 10 to 20 hours per week.
  • Short-term initial scope with potential extension based on findings and fit.
  • Fully remote work.

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