Job Description:
At DXC, one of our platinum accounts has openings for PaaS System Administrators for varying skill levels. The successful candidate will work within a small team which will require a good level of knowledge on DevOps engineering methodologies and that is comfortable working within a cloud development environment. The role involves developing and supporting an existing OpenShift on OpenStack PaaS solution with an attitude towards delivering zero-ops which will require strong automation skills. The ideal candidate would be innovative and analytical with a good eye for detail. Your role will include implementing standards, policies, and procedures for continual service improvement.
Role responsibilities:
- Provide first and second level technical support on incidents and problems
- Monitor overall system performance and ensure smooth system functionality
- Create, maintain, and utilise documentation
- Assist building compliance with our processes and policies
- Able to work autonomously or within high functioning team environment
What you will bring to the team:
- Excellent organisation and time management skills
- Working to ITIL best practices
- Desire to improve processes, looking for the root cause of a problem
- Willingness to both share your knowledge and learn from others
- A proactive approach towards looking for risks and problems
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- An ability to adapt quickly and work in an agile fashion
Desirable Skills and Technologies
Ideally required:
- At least two years of hands-on production experience on Linux, OpenShift
- Good knowledge on Linux, Kubernetes and OpenShift
- Role based access control in relation to OpenShift roles and SCC's
- Good troubleshooting skills on OpenShift and Kubernetes
- Good troubleshooting skills in Docker and Podman
- Confidence in using GIT/Source Control
- Good CI/CD pipeline understanding
- Ansible automation
- Ability to write technical documentation
Desirable Experience:
- Experience with ArgoCD, Istio/Service Mesh, Tekton and Helm Charts will be added advantage
- OpenShift monitoring and writing custom alerting using Prometheus Alertmanager
- CheckMK to monitor physical infrastructure
- Experience with Red Hat Quay Container Registry
- Experience with Red Hat CEPH Storage
- Experience with Red Hat OpenStack
- Experience with maintaining Dell PowerEdge Servers