LinuxPaaS System Administrator HSS

Job Description:

5 Days onsite in Manchester

Must be a sole British Citizen who has lived in the UK for over 10 years

At DXC Technology delivering excellence for our customers and colleagues is more than just a motto its something we strive towards constantly through our work. Every day we deliver mission critical services in a secure environment whilst promoting our people first agenda a real sense of community and a healthy work-life balance. Our consistently positive customer feedback and continuous growth helps us cement our place as one of the worlds leading IT solutions enterprises helping us deliver services and solutions in both challenging and exciting situations.

We believe that hiring a diverse team is crucial to our success and our recruiting decisions are based on your skills and experience as an individual. We actively encourage consistent growth on our journey towards a culture of inclusion and recognise that the people we employ are vital to providing a great customer experience. As such we have a variety of training support and tools available to aid in your continual personal and professional development. Our ongoing goal is to drive innovation and modernise operations across the board which includes furthering the skills of our colleagues. At DXC building a better you builds a better us.

At DXC one of our platinum accounts has openings for PaaS System Administrators for varying skill 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 SCCs

• 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

What we will do for you:

• Competitive compensation

• Pension scheme

• DXC Select Our comprehensive benefits package (includes private health/medical insurance childcare vouchers gym membership and more)

• Perks at Work (discounts on technology groceries travel and more)

• DXC incentives (recognition tools employee lunches regular social events etc)

At DXC we want to give every candidate the best chance to showcase their own skills and experience. To keep the process fair and authentic we kindly ask that interviews are completed without the use of AI tools or external assistance. We dont expect you to know everythingwhat matters most is understanding your journey and potential so we can support your growth if you join us. If you need any additional support or accommodations to participate in the interview please let us know in advance and well do our best to help.

Thank you for your understandingwere excited to learn more about you!

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