Senior Patch & Automation Architect - Transformation Lead

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

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