Windows Administrator – Patch Management - #1172165

Main purpose of the role

To be responsible for the patching and vulnerability management of all Windows Server, VMWare ESXi.

Roles & Responsibilities

• System Administration of Windows/VMWare environment.


• Extensive Experience in ESXi patching.


• Perform Patch assessment and recommend/plan deployment.


• To perform patching of ESXi, VMWare using the Tools that customer have with SOP based approach.


• Monitor systems to ensure all patching is completed successfully and track patch management metrics, producing reports on compliance & effectiveness.


• To perform some basic task on VM using Vcenter.


• To escalate on all major patching and any other issues to L2/L3 teams where appropriate.


• To raise appropriate changes in order for patch implementation and adhere to internal Change Control and ITIL standards.


• To ensure all communications on patch schedule, change planning & approval are done with Apps/Business Owners.


• To carry out any other task associated with the role as reasonably requested.


• Bios upgrades and firmware upgrades.


• Log monitoring/maintenance.

Skills Required

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology.


• 9-12 years of experience in Windows System Administration.


• Excellent Verbal and written communication skills.


• Good interpersonal Skills.


• The candidate should have worked in a SLA driven environment.


• Ability to work in a flexible, team-oriented and constantly changing environment.


• Able to work on weekends as per Roster and perform On-call support (during weekdays) as and when needed.


• Knowledge on Active Directory Management (OU/GPO/Forest and domain config and etc).


• Experience on Patch management tools like BigFix, SCCM etc.


• Experience on Automation of Pre and Post patching tasks.


• Hand-on knowledge on various RAID technologies (RAID 0+1, RAID 1, RAID 5 etc.) (Should have basic knowledge)


• Knowledge on Clustering (geo cluster, multinodes passive/active) ( Should have basic knowledge

Must Have Skills

• Knowledge of Windows 2008/2012/2016/2019 Servers, VMWare ESXi.


• Hyper-V / Vmware - Deployment and management of hyper V VMs.


• Patch management and Vulnerability Management.


• Troubleshooting skills in OS & VMWare related issues.