Infrastructure Automation Architect

Xcede; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Part time

Job summary

Xcede is recruiting an Infrastructure Automation Architect – Patch Management for a major global financial institution in London. The contract role focuses on automating patching, reducing vulnerability backlogs and transforming end-to-end patch management processes across a large enterprise estate.

The role requires defining a future-operating model, identifying automation opportunities, and delivering roadmaps while working with senior stakeholders across servers, OS, networks, containers and

Qualifications

• Experience with large-scale infrastructure processes and transformation.
• Strong background in patch management or vulnerability remediation.
• Proven ability to design or improve enterprise-scale operations and processes.
• Experience with automation across server, OS, network, container and database environments.
• Knowledge of ITSM processes using ServiceNow.
• Proven stakeholder management and executive communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Assess and redesign end-to-end patch management processes.
• Define the future-state operating model for patch management.
• Identify opportunities to automate patching and vulnerability remediation.
• Help define tooling and technology requirements for the programme.
• Develop implementation and transformation roadmaps.
• Collaborate across server, OS, network, container and database domains.
• Drive improvements in operational processes and reduce vulnerability backlogs.
• Present recommendations and transformation plans to technical and executive audiences.

Skills

Enterprise infrastructure architecture

Patch/vulnerability management

Automation/orchestration

ServiceNow/ITSM

Stakeholder management

Complex enterprise environments

Tools

ServiceNow

Job description

Infrastructure Automation Architect – Patch Management

Contract Inside IR35 (3 months initial)| Financial Services | Enterprise Transformation

I’m currently working on a number of Infrastructure Automation Architect positions supporting a major global financial institution on a large-scale, board-sponsored vulnerability management programme.

The organisation is looking to significantly improve how patching and vulnerability remediation is managed across its global infrastructure estate, with a particular focus on automation, process transformation and reducing the existing vulnerability backlog.

This is a senior role where you’ll be responsible for assessing the current patch management landscape, defining the future-state operating model and identifying where automation can deliver meaningful improvements.

The Role

• Assess and redesign end-to-end patch management processes
• Define the future-state patch management operating model
• Identify opportunities to automate patching and vulnerability remediation
• Help define the tooling and technology requirements
• Develop implementation and transformation roadmaps
• Work across server, operating system, network, container and database environments
• Drive improvements in operational processes and reduce vulnerability backlogs
• Work closely with technical and senior stakeholders across the organisation
• Present recommendations and transformation plans to both technical and executive audiences

You'll ideally have:

• Strong enterprise infrastructure architecture or automation experience
• Proven experience with patch management and/or vulnerability management
• Experience designing or improving large-scale infrastructure processes
• Strong understanding of automation and orchestration across enterprise infrastructure
• Exposure to server, OS, network, container and database environments
• Good knowledge of ServiceNow and ITSM processes
• Experience delivering operational transformation or significant process improvement
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
• Experience working in complex enterprise environments

Experience of reducing large-scale vulnerability backlogs would be highly desirable.

This is an opportunity to work on a high-profile transformation programme within a global investment banking environment, working alongside a major technology services and infrastructure provider.

The programme has significant senior-level visibility, so this would suit someone comfortable operating at both a technical architecture and strategic transformation level.

There are multiple positions available, so if you have a background in infrastructure architecture, automation, patching or vulnerability management and are open to a new contract, I'd be keen to speak.