At Frasers Group we’re rethinking retail. Through digital innovation and unique store experiences, we’re serving our consumers with the world’s best sports, premium and luxury brands globally. As a leader in the industry, we’re elevating the retail experience for our consumers through our collection of established brands, including Sports Direct, FLANNELS, USC, Frasers, and GAME.

IT at Frasers Group is delivered by the in-house team who are passionate about what they do and are not dependent on outsourced organisations to deliver the core systems. We present an ideal opportunity for someone who is passionate about technology and wants to deliver the absolute best that they can and keep innovation at the forefront. There is a wealth of opportunity for training as well as on the job learning.  We have a £5,000 per head annual training budget within IT, as well as bonus schemes including our Frasers Champion where 8 peer nominated winners earn double their monthly salary for their outstanding performance

This role is based full time at our Shirebrook HQ

As a Patching Engineer at Frasers Group you will be working alongside the wider Infrastructure, InfoSec and Development teams to ensure we maintain secure, patched and vulnerability free systems. You will be an integral part of the team who manage the security patching and posture of our cloud, on premise and end user devices, as well as our patching infrastructure

You will be evaluating and deploying Microsoft and 3rd party application patches as well as other remediation activities

Collaboration is key for us, you will be working closely with the wider IT and business groups to negotiate downtime slots- showing excellent stakeholder management skills.

• 2+ years experience in patch management, strong understanding of Windows security patching and vulnerability remediation
• Experience with Windows 7-11, Server 2008-2022, Linux and MacOS
• Strong understanding of OS security
• Good working knowledge of PowerShell
• Friendly and approachable attitude, able to communicate to both technical and non-technical colleagues
• Able to comprehend business impact of IT and the risks and opportunities associated with change
• Confident creating and maintaining clear written documentation

Desirable Skills:

• SCCM/Configuration Manager, Tanium and WSUS
• 3rd party application patching tools/plugins such as PatchMyPC, Ivanti/Shavlik Patch, ManageEngine Patch Connect Plus

An opportunity like this at Frasers is for the fearless. The potential is massive, the experience unrivalled. To be able to make the most of it you need to live and breathe our principles: 

• Think without limits - Think fast, fearlessly, and take the team with you.
• Own it and back yourself - Own the basics, own your role and own the results.
• Be relevant - Relevant to our people, our partners and the planet.