Senior Engineer - Patching

An Amazing Career Opportunity for Senior Engineer-Patching
Location: Chennai, India (Hybrid)
Job ID: 45537

 
Profile Summary:

The Engineer-Patching is responsible for planning, testing, deploying, and managing operating system patches and upgrades for Windows and Linux environments using BigFix. The role ensures systems remain secure, compliant, and up to date while minimizing operational risk and downtime. The engineer will manage OS version upgrades, compliance reporting, and vulnerability remediation in alignment with organizational and security standards and will operate within a 24x6 rotational shift model to support continuous enterprise operations.

This role will be an individual contributor within the HID EIT-Cloud team and will be based in Chenni, India.   

About HID Global

HID Global powers the trusted identities of the world’s people, places and things. We make it possible for people to transact safely, work productively and travel freely. Our trusted identity solutions give people secure and convenient access to physical and digital places and connect things that can be accurately identified, verified and tracked digitally. Millions of people around the world use HID products and services to navigate their everyday lives, and over 2 billion things are connected through HID. We work with governments, educational institutions, hospitals, financial institutions, industrial businesses, and some of the most innovative companies on the planet. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, HID Global has over 4500 employees worldwide and operates international offices that support more than 100 countries. HID Global® is an ASSA ABLOY Group brand. HID Global has is the trusted source for secure identity solutions for millions of customers and users around the world. In India, we have two Engineering Centre (Bangalore and Chennai). Global Engineering Team is based in Chennai and one of the Business Unit Engineering team is based in Bangalore. Check us out: www.hidglobal.com and https://youtu.be/23km5H4K9Eo

LinkedIn:  www.linkedin.com/company/hidglobal/mycompany/

Are You Ready to Join the Team?

Our company is committed to finding the best and the brightest talent to help us reach the top. If you are a dynamic, highly skilled, experienced Cloud engineer and technology enthusiast, and you enjoy working in a rapid pace within a rapidly growing business environment, then you will want to consider this position. If you excel at communication, collaboration, and unrelenting innovation, we want to talk to you. And if you bring dedication, positive energy and integrity to the table, you just might be the right fit for our team.

Qualifications
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Duties and Responsibilities include and are not limited to the following.

• 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
• Working knowledge of PowerShell and Bash scripting for automation and validation.
• 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 and respective teams to align patching and upgrades with maintenance windows and change management processes.
• Hands-on experience with patch management tools including SCCM, Linux native tools (YUM/DNF/APT), and cloud-native services such as AWS Systems Manager and OCI OS Management Service (OSMS).
• Maintain detailed documentation, including patching procedures, upgrade runbooks, rollback plans, and standard operating procedures (SOPs).
• Ensure adherence to organizational security policies, SLAs, and regulatory requirements.
• Ensure post-patch system and application stability with effective troubleshooting and communication skills
• Prepare and deliver patch compliance dashboard and management reports.
• Follow ITIL-based change, incident, and problem management processes
• Support audits and compliance requirements (ISO, SOC, etc.)

Required Qualifications:

• Experience working in an agile team environment.
• 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
• Demonstrated ability to analyze and interpret complex problems or processes, identify and understand requirements, and develop alternate solutions.
• Experience in handling critical incidents and working with the stakeholders in addressing the issues.
• Excellent communications skills and the ability to effectively communicate findings both written and orally using both technical and non-technical terms.

Education And/Or Qualification:

• Bachelor’s degree in Programming/Systems or Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of experience in OS patching and system administration across Windows and Linux platforms.

Additional Preferred Skills

• Basic working knowledge of AWS cloud

Customer Expectations

• Team player with the appropriate aptitude and underlying intellect
• Positive attitude and open to share and collaborate in a distributed team setting.
• Good communication skills
• Open to learn and grow.

Why apply? 

• Empowerment: You’ll work as part of a global team in a flexible work environment, learning and enhancing your expertise. We welcome an opportunity to meet you and learn about your unique talents, skills, and experiences. You don’t need to check all the boxes. If you have most of the skills and experience, we want you to apply.
• Innovation: You embrace challenges and want to drive change. We are open to ideas, including flexible work arrangements, job sharing or part-time job seekers.
• Integrity: You are results-orientated, reliable, and straightforward and value being treated accordingly. We want all our employees to be themselves, to feel appreciated and accepted.

This opportunity may be open to flexible working arrangements.

HID is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer – Minority/Female/Disability/Veteran/Gender Identity/Sexual Orientation.

We make it easier for people to get where they want to go!
On an average day, think of how many times you tap, twist, tag, push or swipe to get access, find information, connect with others or track something.  HID technology is behind billions of interactions, in more than 100 countries.  We help you create a verified, trusted identity that can get you where you need to go – without having to think about it.  
 
When you join our HID team, you’ll also be part of the ASSA ABLOY Group, the global leader in access solutions. You’ll have 63,000 colleagues in more than 70 different countries. We empower our people to build their career around their aspirations and our ambitions – supporting them with regular feedback, training, and development opportunities. Our colleagues think broadly about where they can make the most impact, and we encourage them to grow their role locally, regionally, or even internationally. As we welcome new people on board, it’s important to us to have diverse, inclusive teams, and we value different perspectives and experiences.

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