Senior DevOps Engineer ( Puppet Experience )

Full Job Description

Job Description:

Location: Remote

Level of clearance: SC

Due to Security clearance requirements candidates must be UK national/British passport holder/Single nationality and resided in the UK for 5 years.

About DXC

DXC Technology (DXC: NYSE) is the world’s leading independent, end-to-end IT services company, helping clients harness the power of innovation to thrive on change. Created by the merger of CSC and the Enterprise Services business of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, DXC Technology serves nearly 6,000 private and public sector clients across 70 countries.  The company’s technology independence, global talent and extensive partner network combine to deliver powerful next-generation IT services and solutions. DXC Technology is recognized among the best corporate citizens globally. For more information, visit

The role:

The Senior DevOps Engineer will transform technical requirements into an effective DevOps toolchain to enable product delivery, provide coaching and mentoring to more junior colleagues. Make sure deployment strategies for products are repeatable, scalable and highly available. Have deep technical knowledge, providing support to delivery teams and solving complex problems.

Responsibilities:

• Developing various infrastructure solutions on AWS as well as datacenter / private cloud to deliver high availability, rapidly developed, fully automated solutions using predominately open source software which deliver value to the customer.

• Providing technical leadership, help and guidance to less experienced members of the team through mentoring, coaching, constructive review and active participation in various technical forums.

• Advising our customers on the latest technologies and methodologies, designing and implementing innovative approaches to their problems using Automation.

• Ensuring software standards are maintained, being able to train and mentor junior staff. Defining processes and procedures to ensure maximum re-use and maintaining standards.

• Understanding security policies and implementing solutions that satisfy the security requirements.

• Designing and implementing solutions which have high availability and are scalable.

• Providing feedback and demonstrating to a wider audience solutions currently being developed and introducing the team to new concepts and products.

Requirements:

• Proven practical experience and knowledge of AWS.

• Excellent experience of working on Unix / Linux environments

• Proven practical experience in Puppet

• Proven practical experience of Java and Python

• Proven practical experience in of Authentication and Authorization – Keycloak/Redhat SSO, OAUTH2, SAML and OIDC

• Proven practical experience in CI / CD tooling - Jenkins

• Proven practical experience in Infrastructure as Code - Terraform

• Proven practical experience with configuration management tools - Ansible (preferred)

• Proven practical experience in container technology & orchestration - Kubernetes (EKS) and/or OpenShift

• Experienced in Fortigate, Fortiweb and Prometheus Monitoring

• Working knowledge of digital delivery processes and methodologies

• Ability to work with an Agile Team, being able to be self-driven and looking for continuous improvements to both the process and the systems.

• Good communication skills (written and verbal).

• Attention to detail with a pragmatic and enthusiastic attitude to work.

What we offer:

DXC provide a comprehensive Flex benefits scheme including Security clearance retention payment Pension, Life Insurance, Health insurance, travel insurance, store vouchers/discounts, 25 days holiday and options to increase holiday and select benefits appropriate to you.