Job Description \n Branch & Campus Patching Manager | £500-£585 per day (Inside IR35) | 6 months | January start | UK-based, with one on-site day a month in Yorkshire \n We're looking for an experienced Branch & Campus Patching Manager to lead a large-scale network upgrade programme across a distributed estate of 10,000-20,000 devices. You'll plan, coordinate and oversee firmware and software upgrades across branch and campus environments, keeping the business running while changes land safely across hundreds of locations. \n This is a hands-on delivery role so you must be comfortable with network changes at scale. Key responsibilities\n \n \n \n Lead planning and delivery of firmware and software upgrades across branch and campus networks (10,000-20,000 devices) \n Design and run staged, ring based rollouts to limit risk and blast radius \n Assess the impact of change across large numbers of locations before go-live \n Define local validation checks and remote recovery procedures for each rollout stage \n Coordinate on-site engineers who carry out the changes, including managing shift rotas and weekend cover \n Account for WAN dependencies, campus switching and wireless dependencies, and regional connectivity differences when planning \n Work with the mix of technologies in scope: mostly Cisco, plus F5 and Check Point \n \n \nWhat they're looking for:\n \n \n \n Proven experience delivering patching or upgrade programmes at scale (10-20k devices or comparable) \n Strong knowledge of branch connectivity and WAN dependencies \n Understanding of campus switching and wireless-related dependencies \n Understanding of local resilience and survivability, such as how sites cope when the WAN is down \n Awareness of regional variations in connectivity and how they affect rollout planning \n Familiarity with Cisco (the majority of the estate), F5 and Check Point \n \n If this sounds like a good fot, apply now! We're commencing interviewing stages imminently. \n Branch & Campus Patching Manager | £500-£585 per day (Inside IR35) | 6 months | January start | UK-based, with one on-site day a month in Yorkshire \n Oscar Associates (UK) Limited is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. \n To understand more about what we do with your data please review our privacy policy in the privacy section of the Oscar website.
Branch & Campus Patching Manager in Birmingham employer: Oscar Associates Ltd
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