Job Title: Linux Patching Engineer
Department: Managed services
Position Type: Full Time
Location: Remote

Company Overview:
ALIANDO, is an award-winning Azure Expert Managed Service solutions company focused on selling and deploying Microsoft technologies for U.S. and international companies. For over 20 years, Microsoft and its partners have recommended ALIANDO, for licensing, consulting, and managed services to corporations large and small. The company offers competitive pay and comprehensive employee advantages, including health insurance, fitness allowances, work-from-home allowances, paid maternity and parental leave, and generous PTO.

At ALIANDO, we aim to unleash the potential of people and technology. Our company was built around the idea that there is no success without team success. We foster a culture of inclusion and fairness where diverse interests, experiences, and backgrounds are celebrated. We strive to empower and unleash the potential of everyone to ensure that every employee has a path to success. We're in it together to make life better for each other,



our customers, our partners, and our communities.

Key Responsibilities

Patch Planning and Deployment
Plan, schedule and execute monthly and out-of-band patch cycles for Linux servers across all managed client estates, covering kernel, security and package updates.
Build ring-based deployment approaches that move updates from pilot groups to production in a controlled sequence, with defined pause and rollback criteria.
Coordinate maintenance windows and reboot schedules with clients and application owners, and confirm service health before and after each cycle.
Respond to critical vulnerability advisories with emergency patch cycles, working with the security team to prioritise by risk and exposure.
Apply live patching and reboot-minimising approaches where the distribution and client policy support them.

Platform and Repository Administration
Administer Azure Update Manager for Linux, including

📌 Linux Patching Engineer (India)
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