Client Platform Engineering Senior Manager

Job Description

The Role 

General Motors is undergoing a major transformation, both in how we operate and in how we will influence the future of transportation in the EV realm. Our Software Services team is on the forefront of this work, emboldening our culture by seeking out determined, innovative individuals who will join our team to help move us forward and achieve our mission.  

The Senior Manager, Client Platform Engineering leads the team that manages endpoints across macOS, Windows, Linux, and VDI to keep them secure, standardized, and easy to use. The role focuses on streamlined provisioning and secure, direct-to-app access so employees can be productive from anywhere, on any device. 

You’ll own the strategy, roadmap, and delivery of our client platform: how devices are built, secured, managed, and updated at scale. Your team builds the tooling, automation, and standards that power our enduser experience — from zerotouch provisioning to secure access to critical apps without clunky VPNs. 

This is an engineering heavy role (think platforms and automation, not “help desk”), working closely with Security, Networking, Infra, and Support. 

What You’ll Do

Strategy & Ownership 

• Define the longterm client platform strategy across macOS, Windows, Linux, and VDI. 

• Own endpoint lifecycle: image/config design, provisioning, patching, compliance, and decommissioning. 

• Drive standardization of base images, configurations, and policies while keeping things userfriendly and delightful. 

• Support the move toward modern, cloudfirst management and zerotrust, directtoapp access, advocating AI-first behavior into team and org-wide fabric.   

Team Leadership 

• Lead, mentor, and grow a Client Platform Engineering team (engineers / admins / tech leads). 

• Set goals, priorities, and operating rhythms (backlog, sprints, oncall, incident reviews). 

• Build a culture of automation-first, reliability, and security with strong partnership across IT and Security. 

Engineering & Operations 

• Own and optimize endpoint management platforms (e.g., Intune/Endpoint Manager, Jamf, or similar). 

• Implement automated, zero or lowtouch provisioning for laptops and VDI. 

• Build and maintain configuration as code for device policies, profiles, and baselines. 

• Design and run patching and software update strategies to hit aggressive compliance targets. 

• Partner with Security to deploy and operationalize: 

• EDR / AV / DLP 

• Disk encryption 

• Device compliance and posture checks 

• Local admin and privilege controls