DevOps Engineer

Job Description:

DXC Technology is committed to building diverse, inclusive teams. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and particularly encourage interest from women, underrepresented groups, and neurodivergent candidates. We offer reasonable adjustments throughout the hiring process and are dedicated to creating a supportive, accessible environment for everyone.

MANDATORY: This role supports critical national infrastructure and requires UK Security Clearance (SC level). Applicants must be sole UK nationals (British passport, no dual nationality), with 5+ years continuous UK residency and no visa sponsorship requirement
. Active SC clearance is highly desirable. Candidates who do not meet these criteria will not be progressed.

We're looking for a skilled Dev Ops Engineer to help deliver secure, scalable, and resilient platforms supporting critical national infrastructure. You'll be embedded in an Agile team, owning quality, automation, and operational excellence across the full delivery lifecycle.

This is a hands‑on engineering role — you'll design and build automated test frameworks, validate deployments across AWS multi‑account environments, and ensure platforms are continuously production‑ready.

• Design, build, and maintain a comprehensive automated test framework supporting CI/CD
• Develop test strategies, plans, and approaches — and get stakeholder sign‑off
• Deliver functional, integration, and performance tests across an AWS multi‑account environment
• Provide 3rd line support and technical expertise to client engineering teams
• Contribute to platform reliability, scalability, and security through proactive testing and automation
• Keep documentation, test artefacts, and processes clear and aligned to Dev Ops best practices
• Use Confluence for documentation and Jira for story and workflow management

Test Automation & Quality

• Hands‑on with test automation frameworks — Selenium, JUnit, PyTest, TestNG
• Proven track record in functional, regression, performance, and security testing
• Experience writing and maintaining automated test scripts integrated into CI/CD pipelines

Dev Ops & CI/CD

• Practical experience with Jenkins, Git Lab CI, Azure Dev Ops, or CircleCI
• Comfortable embedding testing gates and quality controls into automated delivery workflows

Cloud, Containers & Infrastructure

• AWS experience — ideally across multi‑account environments
• Docker and Kubernetes for containerised application testing
• Familiarity with Terraform and Ansible for IaC validation

Programming & Scripting

• Strong Python, Bash, or Power Shell skills for automation
• API testing with Postman or REST Assured

Observability & Reliability

• Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK stack
• Comfortable using observability data to validate deployment success and system health

Collaboration & Agile

• Agile/Scrum team experience — working closely with developers, SREs, and ops engineers
• Strong communication skills — you can advocate for testing best practices across teams

• 3–5 years software testing experience, with at least 1–2 years in a Dev Ops environment
• Prior roles: QA Engineer, Test Automation Engineer, or Dev Ops Engineer with a testing focus
• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field — or equivalent practical experience

• ISTQB Certified Tester or equivalent
• AWS Certified Dev Ops Engineer or Azure Dev Ops Engineer Expert ⭐
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)