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You will be located at Heathrow working 5 days a week and on call together with wider support teams to make a positive difference for our customers in a challenging environment.\nRoles and Responsibilities\nYou will work closely with other suppliers to deliver an effective process to maintain multiple platforms and business critical systems with vulnerability management, patching (co-ordination through test facility) and configurations. There will be regular reporting to numerous stakeholders and collaboration with other business partners to deliver a highly visible response.\nPart of service team organisation to deliver Baggage Handling System (BHS) support and patch management / updates\nLiaison with project teams and architects to understand roadmaps for managing obsolescence\nPerform threat monitoring using customer tools as directed\nIdeally, technically skilled with SUSE Linux, Oracle and Microsoft Operating Systems & HP hardware.\nCoordinate with supplier organisations at the customer site and internal Vanderlande departments for scheduling updates.\nWill be responsible for Incident Management (working in a team) and contributing to the IT & OT teams’ response and escalation within Vanderlande, as appropriate.\nProvide Vulnerability Management on Baggage Systems (OT and IT) including tools to provide compliancy for our customer (following customer policies).\nInvolvement with cyber teams on the customer site in daily operational meetings and topic discussions and forums to influence best practices on site.\nActively contribute to customer IT policies and ensuring the details are shared with the Vanderlande user community / stakeholders for compliance.\nRepresent Vanderlande when engaging with our customer and other suppliers to deliver a highly visible IT Specialist Baggage System support service.\nAssure access control using the Heathrow applications / processes. Preparing access request information before submission to HAL IT for approval.\nProduce detailed technical reports about security incidents and produce monthly performance reporting\nRole Qualification and Skills\nLinux admin experience (ideally SUSE) \nMicrosoft Server operating system experience essential\nExperience with application testing\nFamiliar with working on a VMware environment\nExperience with Cyber activities of compliance (OS patching and application updates)\nBackup tooling experience - Idera and Veeam desirable\nAwareness of Cyber topics - vulnerabilities, patching practices, security methodology\nExperience of Baggage Handling / Airport Systems will be beneficial but not essential as training will be provided\nWhat we offer\n28 days annual leave (excluding public holidays)\nAviva Medical Cover\nYuLife - Wellbeing membership with fast access to GP appointments, promotion of health and wellbeing along with daily quests to gain Yucoins that can be swapped for shopping vouchers\nA challenging work environment with lots of opportunities of career progression.\nCycle to work scheme\nYellow Nest is a salary exchange scheme that reduces childcare costs for parents and employers\nPension with Aviva\nAccess to Achievers an award-winning recognition platform that inspires to recognise your coworkers Where points are awarded that can be exchanged for a range of goods and discounts.\nDiversity & Inclusion\nVanderlande is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Qualified applicants will be considered without regards to race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age marital status or disability status. 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