PaaS System Admin - 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, we deliver mission‑critical services in a secure environment whilst promoting our people first agenda. Our consistent positive customer feedback and continuous growth help us cement our place as one of the world’s leading IT solutions enterprises.

The successful candidate will work within a small team that requires knowledge of Dev Ops engineering methodologies and comfort working in a cloud development environment. The role involves developing and supporting an existing Open Shift on Open Stack PaaS solution with an attitude toward delivering zero‑ops, requiring strong automation skills. The ideal candidate is innovative, analytical, and pays attention to detail.

Your role will include implementing standards, policies, and procedures for continual service improvement.

• 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.
• Work autonomously or within a high‑functioning team environment.

• Excellent organisation and time‑management skills.
• Working to ITIL best practices.
• Desire to improve processes and look for the root cause of a problem.
• Willingness to share your knowledge and learn from others.
• Proactive approach to identifying risks and problems.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to adapt quickly and work in an agile fashion.

• At least two years of hands‑on production experience on Linux, Open Shift.
• Good knowledge of Linux, Kubernetes and Open Shift.
• Role‑based access control in relation to Open Shift roles and SCCs.
• Good troubleshooting skills on Open Shift 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.

• Experience with ArgoCD, Istio / Service Mesh, Tekton, and Helm Charts.
• Open Shift monitoring and writing custom alerting using Prometheus Alert manager.
• CheckMK to monitor physical infrastructure.
• Experience with Red Hat Quay Container Registry.
• Experience with Red Hat CEPH Storage.
• Experience with Red Hat Open Stack.
• Experience with maintaining Dell Power Edge Servers.

• Competitive compensation.
• Pension scheme.
• DXC Select – comprehensive benefits package (private health/medical insurance, childcare vouchers, gym membership).
• Perks at Work (discounts on technology, groceries, travel).
• DXC incentives (recognition tools, employee lunches, social events).