Senior Patch Management Engineer
- Location
- Slough, England, United Kingdom
network patching practices. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES Manage the firmware/software lifecycle for routers, switches, firewalls, load balancers, and wireless controllers across multi-vendor environments (Cisco, Juniper, Aruba, Palo Alto, F5, Fortinet). Assess vendor advisories (Cisco PSIRT, Juniper JSA, Palo Alto Security Advisories) and map CVEs to required … runbooks including pre-check scripts, upgrade procedures, rollback steps, and post-validation checks. Automate network patch workflows using Ansible, Netmiko, NAPALM, or vendor APIs (Cisco NSO/DNA Centre). Lead maintenance window planning: impact analysis, rollback testing, stakeholder communication, and CAB submission. Oversee configuration backup integrity (RANCID/ ...