Senior SCCM Patch Management Consultant

Position Overview MetroSys is seeking an experienced Senior SCCM Patch Management Consultant to support a regional credit union in assessing, improving, and modernizing its enterprise patch-management environment. The consultant will serve as a subject matter expert for Microsoft SCCM / Microsoft Configuration Manager , reviewing the client's current SCCM architecture, patching processes, deployment methodology, reporting, automation, and overall patch compliance. This role will begin with a comprehensive assessment of the existing environment and progress into recommendations and hands-on improvements. The consultant will identify SCCM configuration gaps, improve patching processes, increase automation, and help establish a more reliable and repeatable enterprise patch-management program. The environment is primarily Microsoft-based with some Linux infrastructure and supports banking, security, and regulated workloads. The consultant should understand the operational and compliance requirements associated with patching systems within a financial-services environment. The initial engagement is expected to last approximately three months , with the possibility of extension and/or permanent employment based on project needs. Key Responsibilities • Perform a comprehensive assessment of the existing SCCM / Microsoft Configuration Manager environment and enterprise patch-management process. • Review SCCM architecture, site configuration, distribution points, Software Update Points, WSUS integration, client health, boundaries, collections, and overall platform health. • Evaluate existing SCCM Software Update Groups, Automatic Deployment Rules (ADRs), device collections, maintenance windows, deployment schedules, and reboot policies . • Review current Windows Server and endpoint patching processes to identify coverage gaps, failed deployments, configuration issues, and opportunities for improvement. • Assess SCCM patch-compliance reporting and develop recommendations for improving visibility into compliant, non-compliant, failed, offline, and pending-reboot systems. • Design or improve SCCM patching rings and deployment collections for test, pilot, production, critical infrastructure, and exception groups. • Develop and implement SCCM automation to reduce manual patch-management activities and improve consistency. • Utilize PowerShell and other automation technologies to improve SCCM administration, reporting, remediation, and patching workflows. • Review existing patch testing, approval, deployment, rollback, maintenance-window, and emergency patching procedures. • Identify opportunities to automate patch identification, deployment, validation, remediation, and compliance reporting. • Evaluate where AI-assisted technologies could provide practical value within patch management, reporting, troubleshooting, vulnerability prioritization, or operational workflows. • Work with security and vulnerability-management teams to align SCCM patch deployments with identified vulnerabilities and organizational risk. • Support patching requirements across a primarily Microsoft environment , while helping establish appropriate processes for Linux and other infrastructure not directly managed through SCCM. • Review patch-management practices against applicable banking, security, PCI, and internal compliance requirements . • Troubleshoot SCCM client, deployment, distribution, update, and reporting issues. • Create or improve patch-management dashboards, reports, KPIs, and audit documentation. • Develop a prioritized SCCM and patch-management improvement roadmap. • Implement approved SCCM configuration, automation, reporting, and process improvements during the engagement. • Document configurations, procedures, recommendations, and operational standards and provide knowledge transfer to internal teams. Originally posted on Himalayas