Senior Engineer -IT

An Amazing Career Opportunity for Engineer-Patching, APAC Region

Location:

Chennai, India (Hybrid)
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Summary:

The Engineer-Patching is responsible for planning, testing, deploying, and managing operating system patches and upgrades for Windows and Linux environments using Big Fix. The role ensures systems remain secure, compliant, and up to date while minimizing operational risk and downtime. The engineer will manage OS version upgrades, compliance reporting, and vulnerability remediation in alignment with organizational and security standards and will operate within a 24x6 rotational shift model to support continuous enterprise operations.

This role will be an individual contributor within the HID EIT-Cloud team and will be based in Chennai, India.

About HID Global
HID Global powers the trusted identities of the world’s people, places and things. We make it possible for people to transact safely, work productively and travel freely. Our trusted identity solutions give people secure and convenient access to physical and digital places and connect things that can be accurately identified, verified and tracked digitally. Millions of people around the world use HID products and services to navigate their everyday lives, and over 2 billion things are connected through HID.

We work with governments, educational institutions, hospitals, financial institutions, industrial businesses, and some of the most innovative companies on the planet. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, HID Global has over 4500 employees worldwide and operates international offices that support more than 100 countries. HID Global® is an ASSA ABLOY Group brand. HID Global has is the trusted source for secure identity solutions for millions of customers and users around the world.

In India, we have two Engineering Centre (Bangalore and Chennai). Global Engineering Team is based in Chennai and one of the Business Unit Engineering team is based in Bangalore. Check us out:  and
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Are You Ready to Join the Team?
Our company is committed to finding the best and the brightest talent to help us reach the top. If you are a dynamic, highly skilled, experienced Cloud engineer and technology enthusiast, and you enjoy working in a rapid pace within a rapidly growing business environment, then you will want to consider this position. If you excel at communication, collaboration, and unrelenting innovation, we want to talk to you.

And if you bring dedication, positive energy and integrity to the table, you just might be the right fit for our team.

Qualifications
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Duties and Responsibilities include and are not limited to the following.

• Perform end-to-end patch management for Windows and Linux servers using Big Fix.

• Plan, test, and deploy monthly, quarterly, and emergency security patches, hotfixes and emergency (zero-day) patch cycles

• Execute operating system upgrades for Windows Server and Linux distributions, including in-place and version upgrades

• Working knowledge of Power Shell and Bash scripting for automation and validation.

• Create, manage, and maintain Big Fix fixlets, baselines, actions, and deployment schedules

• Monitor patch deployments, analyze failures, and perform remediation to achieve required patch compliance levels.

• Support vulnerability remediation aligned with security advisories (CVEs)

• Coordinate with application teams, security teams, business teams and respective teams to align patching and upgrades with maintenance windows and change management processes.

• Hands-on experience with patch management tools including SCCM, Linux native tools (YUM/DNF/APT), and cloud-native services such as AWS Systems Manager and OCI OS Management Service (OSMS).

• Maintain detailed documentation, including patching procedures, upgrade runbooks, rollback plans, and standard operating procedures (SOPs).

• Ensure…