Company Name: VARITE India Private Limited

About The Client:

An Indian multinational information technology (IT) consulting company headquartered in Noida, The company has offices in 52 countries and over 225,944 employees. The Client is a global IT services and consulting company that offers a wide range of services and products across various industries like IT Infrastructure Services, Cybersecurity Services, Cloud Services, Big Data and Analytics, Internet of Things (IoT) Solutions, Semiconductor Services and Enterprise Software Products.
About The Job:
- Experience
- 3 – 6 years in Network Engineering / Operations
- Education
- B.Tech (Electronics & Communication / Computer Science) or equivalent
- The L2 Senior Network Patch Management Engineer owns the firmware and software lifecycle across a multi-vendor network estate (LAN, WAN, data centre fabrics, firewalls, load balancers, and wireless).
- Responsibilities include risk assessment, automated patching workflows, vulnerability-led prioritisation, and cross-team coordination for zero-disruption maintenance.




- The role serves as an escalation point for L1 and leads continuous improvement of network patching practices.

Essential Job Functions:
- Manage the firmware / software lifecycle for routers, switches, firewalls, load balancers, and wireless controllers across multi-vendor environments (Cisco, Juniper, Aruba, Palo Alto, F5, Fortinet).
- Assess vendor advisories (Cisco PSIRT, Juniper JSA, Palo Alto Security Advisories) and map CVEs to required upgrades; prioritise based on business impact and CVSS score.
- Develop and maintain device-specific patching runbooks including pre-check scripts, upgrade procedures, rollback steps, and post-validation checks.
- Automate network patch workflows using Ansible, Netmiko, NAPALM, or vendor APIs (Cisco NSO / DNA Centre).
- Lead maintenance window planning: impact analysis, rollback testing, stakeholder communication, and CAB submission.
- Oversee configuration backup

📌 Senior Network Patch Management Engineer (Chennai)
🏢 VARITE
📍 Chennai