Senior UNIX Devops Engineer

Gloucester, Gloucestershire

DXC Technology Inc.
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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
Date Posted: 24 April 2025
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