# Senior Desktop Support Engineer

We are a crowdfunded company and have a dedicated and enthusiastic community of backers who are helping us create the “Best Damn Space Sim Ever”. We want to build the best we can deliver and we believe wholeheartedly in the value of exceptional diverse talent. Founded in 2012, Cloud Imperium Games creates cutting-edge videogames that defy expectations. We’re currently developing Star Citizen, a record-breaking multiplayer online space sim, and Squadron 42, a cinematic single-player adventure set in the same universe. Join us as we break boundaries and make video game history. Cloud Imperium Games is looking for three skilled and talented Senior Desktop Support Engineers to support our studios worldwide! What do our Senior Desktop Support Engineers do? Own the full lifecycle of desktops, high-performance workstations, and laptops, including specification, build, deployment, repair, refresh, and secure disposal. Design, build, and maintain standardised Windows 10/11 images and deployment pipelines using Intune, Autopilot, SCCM/MECM, MDT, and WDS/PXE. Diagnose and resolve complex hardware faults to component level, and act as the final escalation point for difficult Windows issues usi

- **Id**: 3965451
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/cloud-imperium-games-senior-desktop-support-engineer>
- **Role**: Support
- **Role family**: Support
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Manchester, United Kingdom
- **Countries**: GB
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 6
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-09T13:52:20Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-09
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T13:52:20Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5423
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: PC Games, Game Development

## Company

- **Id**: 453848
- **Name**: Cloud Imperium Games
- **Domain**: cloudimperiumgames.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/cloudimperiumgames-2>
- **Size band**: 501-1000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 71
- **Open postings**: 37
- **Ghost share**: 0.405
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 60
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Technologies

- **Active Directory** — Optional: no
- **DHCP** — Optional: no
- **DNS** — Optional: no
- **Microsoft Entra ID** — Optional: no
- **PowerShell** — Optional: no
- **TCP/IP** — Optional: no
- **Wi-Fi** — Optional: no
- **WinDbg** — Optional: no
- **Windows** — Optional: no
- **Assembly** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 6
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: associate
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-09T13:52:20Z

## Visa

- Country: GB; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Licensed UK visa sponsor (Senior or Specialist Worker, Skilled Worker); Route: Global Business Mobility: Senior or Specialist Worker; Skilled Worker

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 60
- **Reasons**: conf:3, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T16:54:09Z

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