Senior Infrastructure & Security Patch Lead

Luxoft; Greater London; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Luxoft is seeking an experienced Infrastructure SME to strengthen teams responsible for planning, coordinating, deploying, and governing security patches across the bank's core infrastructure estate.

The role provides technical leadership to ensure critical security updates are delivered efficiently while minimising operational risk and maintaining service availability across Windows, Linux, virtualization, cloud, and storage platforms.

Qualifications

• Must have SME experience in security patch deployment within Infrastructure.
• Deep knowledge of Windows Server and Linux administration.
• Experience with VMware/Hyper-V and enterprise virtualization.
• Strong AD, DNS, DHCP, PKI, and identity infrastructure.
• Storage, backup, disaster recovery, and high-availability expertise.
• Experience with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS) and hybrid environments.
• Knowledge of IaC concepts and automation tooling.

Responsibilities

• Lead planning, scheduling, deployment and governance of security patches across core infrastructure.
• Coordinate patch cycles across multiple technology domains and ensure remediation of failed installations.
• Provide technical leadership across Windows, Linux, virtualization, storage, network, backup and middleware.
• Collaborate with Cyber Security to prioritise remediation and meet patch SLAs.
• Drive change-management for infrastructure modifications with minimal business disruption.
• Identify automation opportunities to streamline patch deployment and maintenance.
• Communicate patch status and risk to stakeholders and manage incidents as needed.

Skills

Patch deployment SME

Core infrastructure

Windows Server

Linux administration

VMware/Hyper-V

Active Directory

DNS/DHCP

Storage & DR

Vulnerability management

Cloud platforms

IaC concepts

Automation (PowerShell)

Tools

SCCM

Intune

WSUS

Red Hat Satellite

Ansible

Puppet

Chef

PowerShell

Bash

Python

VMware vCenter

Azure Update Manager

AWS Systems Manager

SolarWinds

SCOM

Dynatrace

Splunk

Job description

Luxoft is seeking an experienced Infrastructure SME to strengthen teams responsible for planning, coordinating, deploying, and governing security patches across the bank's core infrastructure estate.

The role provides technical leadership to ensure critical security updates are delivered efficiently while minimising operational risk and maintaining service availability across Windows, Linux, virtualization, cloud, and storage platforms.