Branch & Campus Patching Manager

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

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.

This is a hands-on delivery role so you must be comfortable with network changes at scale.

Key responsibilities

• Lead planning and delivery of firmware and software upgrades across branch and campus networks (10,000-20,000 devices)
• Design and run staged, ring based rollouts to limit risk and blast radius
• Assess the impact of change across large numbers of locations before go-live
• Define local validation checks and remote recovery procedures for each rollout stage
• Coordinate on-site engineers who carry out the changes, including managing shift rotas and weekend cover
• Account for WAN dependencies, campus switching and wireless dependencies, and regional connectivity differences when planning
• Work with the mix of technologies in scope: mostly Cisco, plus F5 and Check Point

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