Patch Management Lead

Portfolio BI (PBI) empowers the most sophisticated buy-side firms to take control of their portfolio and operational data. Born from the merger with Hentsū, and backed by Credit Suisse Asset Management's NEXT Investors, our customers benefit from our integrated platforms, local technological expertise, and seasoned financial experts. We are an asset management technologist, and we provide a fully managed cloud platform for hedge funds, with on-demand trading, research and corporate technology, as well as connectivity to market data providers, brokers, and exchanges. Our vision is to drive agile transformation across financial services through public cloud technologies, SaaS and data science.

You will:

• Lead the patch strategy development, planning, prioritization, and execution of patch management program across the corporate and customer cloud IT infrastructure
• Lead the team of Engineers that will execute and overview patching maintenance
• Partner with the Cloud Operational Engineering Support and Cloud Delivery Engineering teams on the execution, maintenance, and improvement of day-to-day patch management and vulnerabilities remediation activities
• Maintain a close working relationship with both teams to ensure vulnerability management and patch management programs are coordinated and meeting SLAs for patching
• Perform proactive security research for Microsoft Windows, Azure and AWS Cloud Platforms
• Establish and maintain a test environment, test procedures, and pilot group to allow thorough testing of patches prior to full deployment
• Plan and coordinate patch schedules with Engineering teams to ensure no conflicts are encountered
• Work with DevOps and Engineering to identify and execute ways to automate and orchestrate patch management
• Assist in the development and maintenance of security standards, patching policies and procedures as it pertains to on-premise VMs, Desktops and Thin clients, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) in the Azure and AWS Cloud, consistent updating of systems security processes within the Windows, MacOS and Linux stack
• Maintain the assets/Configuration Items (CI’s) within the automated patching tools to ensure all assets are up to date and relevant to reduce risk and improve visibility and security posture
• Manage and oversee the assigned tickets including incidents and requests; create appropriate changes for any modification or upgrades on the servers
• Assist in the maintenance of the windows servers, including patches and security update both in all WinOps environments including the Cloud

You have:

• 3-5 years of System Administration experience in a Windows, Linux and/or MacOS environment
• 3-5 years of experience working in information security, information technology, or information risk management related field
• Experience in leading a patch management program/team
• Ability to operate effectively as a team leader to set goals and drive the team to achieve
• Faculty degree in Electrical Engineering, IT or similar field and related professional certifications
• Ability to clearly and efficiently communicate with the internal management team and customers
• Adheres to policies and procedures relating to standards of business conduct, ethics, and conflicts of interest and completes annual training in the same
• Leverages expertise by sharing lessons learned, documenting processes, contributing to team de-briefs and training

Benefits:

• Comfortable office in the heart of Belgrade
• Work with technology leaders like Cisco, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services
• Full-time employment contract
• Private health insurance
• Flexible working
• Professional certifications paid by the company
• Discretionary performance bonus