Patch & Deployment Engineer - Windows/Linux Automation

Synechron; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Global offices

Paid leave

Parental leave

Insurance plan

Retirement plans

Training programs

Udemy access

Mentoring

Job summary

Synechron, a global consulting firm, seeks a Patch Management & Application Deployment Engineer to own enterprise patching, deployment, and remediation across Windows and Linux servers, desktops, VMs, and cloud assets.

The ideal candidate has 7–15 years of experience, with familiarity administering SCCM/MECM, Intune, Rapid7, and packaging workflows, plus strong automation and change-control capabilities. This role emphasizes risk management and cross-team collaboration.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, cybersecurity, engineering, or equivalent professional experience.
• 7–15 years of experience in patch-management and application-deployment programs.
• Strong experience with endpoint-management platforms and OS administration.
• Experience with deployment automation and production change execution.

Responsibilities

• Plan, coordinate, and execute OS, third-party app, firmware, and agent patching across enterprise infrastructure and endpoints.
• Administer and improve patching, endpoint-management, application-deployment, imaging, task-sequence, and provisioning platforms.
• Define testing groups, deployment rings, maintenance windows, validation checks, reboot controls, rollback criteria, and emergency patching practices.
• Package and deploy enterprise applications with repeatable installation, upgrade, removal, validation, and rollback processes.
• Investigate and remediate failed patches, unhealthy clients, missing management agents, unmanaged assets, overdue vulnerabilities, and inventory inconsistencies.
• Automate patching, compliance reporting, pre-patch validation, failed-client remediation, software deployment, and recurring operational activities.
• Drive agreement across Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, Application Security, Network, Database, Operations, Support, and application owners on priorities, ownership, maintenance windows, SLAs, escalation paths, dependencies, and operational handoffs.
• Maintain risk-based remediation, escalation, change-control, backup, and rollback practices, including a formal exception register with risk acceptance, compensating controls, accountable owners, expiration dates, and review status.
• Define KPIs and produce operational dashboards, leadership reporting, audit evidence, runbooks, deployment plans, and technical documentation covering compliance, exposure, deployment reliability, exceptions, asset coverage, and remediation trends.
• Provide technical leadership, improve platform strategy and operational processes, mentor engineers, and lead documented emergency and zero-day remediation exercises.

Skills

Windows admin

Linux admin

SCCM/MECM

Intune

Automation

PowerShell

Bash

Python

Change control

Vulnerability remediation

Deployment automation

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/IS

Tools

Patch Manager Plus

Rapid7

MSI

MSIX

Win32

Job description

Synechron, a global consulting firm, seeks a Patch Management & Application Deployment Engineer to own enterprise patching, deployment, and remediation across Windows and Linux servers, desktops, VMs, and cloud assets.

The ideal candidate has 7–15 years of experience, with familiarity administering SCCM/MECM, Intune, Rapid7, and packaging workflows, plus strong automation and change-control capabilities. This role emphasizes risk management and cross-team collaboration.