Patch Management Automation and Optimization

Philips Brugge is met zijn 400 collega’s het internationaal innovatiecentrum dat de meest innovatieve TV’s ontwikkelt en consumenten zo een niet te evenaren cinematic viewing experience bezorgt. Perfect Pixel HD, Ambilight, Aurea en de recent gelanceerde Cinema 21:9 Platinum 3D-TV zijn allemaal ontstaan in deze vernieuwende en gedreven omgeving. Net zoals voorgaande jaren werd ook in 2011 ons werk bekroond met de prestigieuze EISA-award voor meest groene tv en de beste 3D-televisie.
Philips Bruges, is the global innovation center where 400 colleagues work together to develop the most innovative TV’s thus creating an unforgettable cinematic viewing experience for our consumers. Perfect Pixel HD, Ambilight, Aurea and the recently launched Cinema 21:9 Platinum 3D-TV have all been developed in this innovative and inspiring environment. In 2011, as in previous years, we won the prestigious EISA-award for the most eco-friendly product and the best 3D-television.
Description:
The Software Development group of Philips Bruges is leading system integration in Philips Consumer Lifestyle; we are driving innovation by integration into a top performing system with a strong focus on managing state-of-the-art software assets and delivering value creation through meaningful differentiation. This group has over a 120 people working from conceptualization (requirements and architecture) to realization (development and testing).

Software solutions are delivered from development teams as releases or as specific patches on top of these releases. The integration methodology for these patches is based on a number of web and configuration management tools for intake, tracking and overviews. The intention of this internship is to optimize patch management by combining the different tools and to automate the patch intake process by devising an algorithm which can intelligently judge which patches need to be taken and implementing the same.

This would include the following aspects:
• Define an algorithm to determine which patches can be taken in (based on a number of parameters such as subsystem, release versions, dependency on other patches etc.)
• Implement the above algorithm to mark and take in the adjudged patches into the configuration management system, to visualize the same to stakeholders
• Combine the different patch tools with proper backend data storage and access and frontend user access and reporting
• Synchronize this with the existing continuous integration build context
• Ensure error logging and handling
• Ensure documentation (designs, usage) and test framework for the above

Requirements:
• Civil/Industrial Engineer OR Master in Informatics OR with a specialisation in Computer Sciences
• Knowledge of C, web development (PHP) and software databases ( mySQL)
• Knowledge of integration aspects will be highly useful
• Result driven and communicative nature

Contact:
Voor meer informatie over het onderwerp, contacteer Tabish Siddique (Senior Manager Software Product):
 Tel: 050/455.452
 Of per mail: Tabish.Siddique@philips.com

Wil je solliciteren voor deze opdracht, stuur dan een kort CV met motivatie naar Evelien Batsleer, HR assistant: evelien.batsleer@philips.com (050/455.299) én naar de contactpersoon die hierboven vermeld staat. Wij nodigen je dan uit voor een kennismakingsgesprek met de stagebegeleider en HR.