Application Packaging Consultant

Posting date:	26 January 2026
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	23 February 2026
Location:	Glasgow, Scotland
Remote working:	Hybrid - work remotely up to 2 days per week
Company:	University of Glasgow
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	189014

Summary

University Services
Information Services

Application Packaging Consultant
Vacancy Reference: 189014
Salary: UofG Grade 7, £41,064 - £46,049 per annum

The University of Glasgow has been changing the world for more than 574 years, and we are one of the world's top 100 universities, ranked 12th in the world in the Times Higher Education (THE) World Impact Rankings 2024, demonstrating that we are not only one of the best universities in the United Kingdom, but one of the best universities for the world. Our people have always been at the forefront of innovation, and our past achievements inspire our current world changers.

This is a great opportunity for new Application Packaging Consultant to join the University’s Information Services.

Reporting to the Application Packaging Team lead, you will deliver application packaging and support as part of a team of three packaging specialists in the delivery of application packaging and support to the end user fleet team.

As a member of the End User Services Team [EUC], you will contribute technical expertise to the management of the Universities software portfolio across all platforms. The software packaging team are a core component of the End User Computing team in Information Services forming the pipeline to analyse, package, deploy, report and maintain every software package required by users across the Universities diverse and extensive end user device fleet.

Supporting thousands of applications, across the end user fleet of 25000 devices, on both Mac and PC, both physical and virtual, local and cloud this role.

Utilising our extensive toolkit to deploy applications to our users (SCCM, inTune, JAMF, Azure Virtual Desktop) the successful candidate will play a key role in the delivery of these services to all of our users, on all of our campuses, UK and International.

This post is full time (35 hours p/w) and open ended.

Apply online at: Application Packaging Consultant · University of Glasgow

Closing date: 23rd February 2026

The University of Glasgow has a responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to live and work in the UK. If you require a Skilled Worker visa to work in the UK, you will be required to meet the eligibility requirements of the visa route to be assigned a Certificate of Sponsorship.

Please note that this post may be eligible to be sponsored under the Skilled Worker visa route if tradeable points can be used under the Skilled Worker visa rules. For more information please visit: https://www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa.

As part of Team UofG you will be a member of a world changing, inclusive community, which values ambition, excellence, integrity and curiosity.

As a valued member of our team, you can expect:
1 A warm welcoming and engaging organisational culture, where your talents are developed and nurtured, and success is celebrated and shared.
2 An excellent employment package with generous terms and conditions including 41 days of leave for full time staff, pension - pensions handbook https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/payandpensions/pensions/, benefits and discount packages.
3 A flexible approach to working.
4 A commitment to support your health and wellbeing, including a free 6-month UofG Sport membership for all new staff joining the University https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/staff/healthwellbeing/.

We believe that we can only reach our full potential through the talents of all. Equality, diversity and inclusion are at the heart of our values. Applications are particularly welcome from across our communities and in particular people from the Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) community, and other protected characteristics who are under-represented within the University. Read more on how the University promotes and embeds all aspects of equality and diversity within our community https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/humanresources/equalitydiversity/.

We endorse the principles of Athena Swan https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/humanresources/equalitydiversity/athenaswan/ and hold bronze, silver and gold awards across the University.

We are investing in our organisation, and we will invest in you too. Please visit our website https://www.gla.ac.uk/explore/jobs/ for more information.

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