Linux System Administrator 

Location: Cheltenham ( 5 Days on Site) 

At DXC Technology, delivering excellence for our customers and colleagues is more than just a motto, it’s 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 world’s 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 Linux System Administrators at varying skill levels.  The successful candidate will work within multiple teams and will 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 processes and policies 

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 

Desirable Skills and Technologies 

• Proficiency in UNIX/Linux systems (Red Hat, Debian, Solaris, AIX, etc.) 

• Shell scripting (Bash, KornShell, etc.) 

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Ansible, Terraform, Puppet, Chef 

• Process and job control (cron, at, systemd timers) 

• Networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, NFS, SSH, FTP) 

• Filesystem management (LVM, ext4, XFS, ZFS) 

• Performance tuning and monitoring (top, vmstat, iostat, sar, netstat) 

• Exposure to automation software such as Ansible/Puppet 

• Knowledge of scripting with Bash, Python, and/or Git 

• Experience of AWS 

• Automation tools (Ansible, Puppet, Chef) 

• Virtualization and containers (KVM, VMware, Docker, Podman) 

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)