Patching Team Leader

Salary: £26,000 per year

My leading IT services client, are looking for a Patching Team Leader, to be based permanently on site at their transport client, London. You will be based in the division accountable and responsible for most of the Infrastructure Security activities which includes IT server maintenance scheduling and delivery across all the different Infrastructure services.

The primary objective is to ensure the Windows server estate and any other platform that is in scope is compliant from a Operating System (OS) perspective. Also manage the scheduling and deployment of all planned and un-planned security patches

Primary Responsibilities;

•Apply, Manage & Support the scheduling and deployment of security patches

•Use and adopt automated tools provided by the client to apply the patches with minimal impact, e.g. out of hours or at times acceptable with the Service Owner

•Prioritise deployment of patches against priority of services

•Work with the Server Owners to plan the update of 3rd party software updates for Business Owned servers e.g. Google Chrome, Firefox etc.

•Investigate any failed MS patch deployments and put into place detailed processes to resolve these

•Working from a Qualys customised vulnerability report provided by the Cyber Security division to highlight obsolete software and have it uninstalled/updated, and any config changes required to make the server compliant.

•Run monthly compliance reports and present these to the Senior Management team

•Document procedures for the full patch management across the estate

Behaviours:

Reliable

Team player

Self Motivated

Pro active

Process Driven

Logical though process

Flexible working attitude

Attention to detail

Knowledge and Skills;

Excellent scheduling skills

Fluent English, both spoken and written

Have strong organisational and process management skills

Ability to converse at all levels with gravitas

Work well under pressure

Ability to remain motivated by targets and deadlines

IT risk awareness

Excellent interpersonal and customer facing skills

Ability to work accurately

Preferred Qualifications

Deployment experience with using SCCM

ITIL v3

Experience of vulnerability platforms, such as Qualys

Patch management experience