Senior Installation Package Development & Validation Engineer (Contract role)

Focus Areas: MSI InstallShield (Windows) & Linux/Unix InstallAnywhere Automation

Role Type: Contractor – 6 months

Primary Focus: Installer Engineering, Packaging & Release Validation

InstallShield (MSI), InstallAnywhere, VBScript / Custom Actions, Java / JDBC, Gradle (Kotlin DSL), GitHub Actions, Active Directory / gMSA, Docker

Role Overview

We are seeking a Senior Installation Package Specialist to own, modernize, and automate the multi-platform installer ecosystem. In this critical role, you will be responsible for end-to-end packaging engineering from developing Windows InstallShield (.msi) and Linux/Unix InstallAnywhere (.iap_xml) installer payloads to orchestrating custom build tasks in Gradle, automating database provisioning via JDBC, and ensuring seamless enterprise upgrades across thousands of mission-critical customer settings.

You will collaborate closely with Core Engineering, Security, and Quality Engineering teams to eliminate installation roadblocks,



enhance silent/unattended rollout capabilities, support up-to-date enterprise security standards (gMSA, CyberArk PAM), and maintain zero-downtime upgrade integrity.

Key Responsibilities

• Dual-Platform Installer Development & Maintenance

• Windows Packaging (InstallShield MSI): Maintain and enhance InstallShield project files (.ism) for flagship Windows products.

• Linux/Unix Packaging (InstallAnywhere): Develop and configure Revenera InstallAnywhere (.iap_xml) project files for Unix based repo installers.

• Custom Action Engineering: Design, write, and maintain:

• Windows VBScript / JScript Custom Actions: Develop Immediate and Deferred custom actions (with elevated privilege handling and rollback logic) for configuration gathering, service registration, and file manipulation.

• Java Custom Actions: Develop compiled Java classes for InstallAnywhere runtime execution to handle cross-platform setup logic.

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📌 Senior Installation Package Development Hyderabad
🏢 Redwood Software
📍 Hyderabad