About the role

  • Patch Management Engineer managing operating system patches and upgrades for Windows and Linux environments. Ensuring systems remain secure, compliant, and up to date with minimal operational risk and downtime.

Responsibilities

  • Perform end-to-end patch management for Windows and Linux servers using BigFix.
  • Plan, test, and deploy monthly, quarterly, and emergency security patches, hotfixes and emergency (zero-day) patch cycles.
  • Execute operating system upgrades for Windows Server and Linux distributions, including in-place and version upgrades.
  • Create, manage, and maintain BigFix fixlets, baselines, actions, and deployment schedules.
  • Monitor patch deployments, analyze failures, and perform remediation to achieve required patch compliance levels.
  • Support vulnerability remediation aligned with security advisories (CVEs).
  • Coordinate with application teams, security teams, business teams to align patching and upgrades with maintenance windows and change management processes.
  • Ensure adherence to organizational security policies, SLAs, and regulatory requirements.

Requirements

  • 3 to 5 years of experience in OS patching and system administration across Windows and Linux platforms.
  • Strong hands-on experience with BigFix for patch management.
  • Experience patching Windows Server (2012, 2016, 2019, 2022,2025).
  • Experience patching Linux systems (RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu, SUSE).
  • Proven competency in Windows and Linux OS upgrades, including planning, execution, and rollback.
  • Understanding of security vulnerabilities (CVEs) and compliance standards.
  • Experience with JIRA and Service Now ticketing system for incident management, change control and task management.
  • Excellent communications skills and the ability to effectively communicate findings both written and orally using both technical and non-technical terms.

Benefits

  • Health insurance
  • Flexible working hours
  • Professional development opportunities

Job title

Engineer – Patching

Job type

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

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