Patch Management & Automation Consultant

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

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📋 Description

• Assess the organization's patch-management program, including processes, policies, tools, workflows, reporting, and governance • Review and evaluate the SCCM / Microsoft Configuration Manager environment, including configuration, collections, deployment rings, maintenance windows, Software Update Groups, ADRs, and compliance reporting • Assess patching processes across Microsoft, Linux, cloud, infrastructure, and other applicable systems • Review asset and system inventory for patch-management and compliance-reporting coverage • Identify gaps in patch coverage, automation, testing, deployment, exception management, remediation, and reporting • Evaluate automation opportunities across patch identification, prioritization, testing, approvals, deployments, compliance validation, remediation, and reporting • Identify practical AI-assisted operations opportunities while minimizing security and operational risk • Develop risk-based patch-prioritization recommendations • Review patching practices for banking, security, and regulated workloads against PCI and financial-services requirements • Establish or improve patching standards, deployment rings, maintenance windows, emergency/zero-day procedures, rollback procedures, and exception-management processes • Develop dashboards, reports, and KPIs for patch compliance, vulnerabilities, failed deployments, exceptions, and remediation timelines • Collaborate with infrastructure, security, compliance, and business stakeholders • Recommend a future-state patch-management architecture and prioritized remediation, automation, and modernization roadmap • Assist with implementing approved improvements during the engagement • Provide documentation and knowledge transfer to internal IT and security teams • Deliver current-state assessment, SCCM health and configuration review, patch coverage assessment, risk and compliance gap analysis, automation and AI assessment, future-state roadmap, implementation support, and repeatable processes

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of experience supporting enterprise infrastructure, patch management, endpoint management, vulnerability management, or related disciplines • Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft SCCM / Microsoft Configuration Manager and enterprise software update management • Experience designing and managing patch deployment strategies, including testing groups, deployment rings, maintenance windows, automated deployment rules, and production rollouts • Strong understanding of Windows Server and Microsoft enterprise environments • Working knowledge of Linux patching and lifecycle management • Experience assessing existing IT environments and developing actionable remediation and modernization plans • Experience with scripting and automation technologies such as PowerShell, APIs, Power Automate, Azure Automation, or similar tools • Understanding of vulnerability management and risk-based patch prioritization • Experience producing patch-compliance reporting, dashboards, KPIs, and audit evidence • Strong understanding of change management, testing, rollback, exception management, and emergency patching procedures • Ability to communicate effectively with infrastructure engineers, security teams, compliance personnel, and IT leadership • Preferred: experience within a credit union, bank, financial institution, or other highly regulated environment • Preferred: understanding of PCI DSS and financial-services security and compliance requirements • Preferred: familiarity with Azure, Intune, Entra ID, Azure Automation, and Microsoft security platforms • Preferred: experience integrating SCCM with vulnerability-management, ITSM, security, or reporting platforms • Preferred: experience implementing automation within infrastructure or security operations • Preferred: familiarity with AI-assisted IT operations, Microsoft Copilot capabilities, or AI applications to vulnerability and patch-management workflows • Preferred: experience developing patch-management SOPs, governance standards, and audit-ready documentation • Preferred: consulting experience and ability to independently lead discovery sessions, assessments, recommendations, and implementation activities

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits package for full-time employees • Work-life balance • Potential for permanent employment based on project needs

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