Junior DevOps Engineer

Job description

·  Job Description:

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, visitwww.dxc.com

Want to be part of something exciting?

Want to help build something great?

Would you describe yourself as a creative and ambitious engineer who is always ready to take on the next cutting-edge technology?

What is in it for you:

·  Competitive salary
·  A chance to build something from the ground up
·  Opportunity to grow your skills
·  A working environment that has a best of class culture
·  A leadership team that puts you at the heart of everything we do

DXC are expanding theirDigital Transformation capabilityto meet the rapid increase in demand for agile driven solutions from our extensive customer base. DXC are building a Digital capability at Chorley, using our DTC global model. As market leaders we offer creative, rapid and cost efficient solutioning to a multitude of business and process needs. This ‘thinktank’ approach is coming to the North West. Focussing on the first of type, proof of concept innovation projects, it will be a hub for pushing the boundaries where innovation is encouraged and applauded.

We are looking for driven and innovative individuals who would like to be part of building our vision whilst helping clients transform their business.

Our technical roles offer you the chance to grow your skills and experience in a multitude of environments and technologies in platforms, micro-services, cloud migrations, CI/CD pipelines, containers, automation, robotics and some of the best Dev Ops Tooling whilst working alongside some of the most talented people inDXC.   

Responsibilities

·  Participating in the development of various infrastructure solutions including Public Cloud eg. Azure and 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.
·  Maintaining awareness on the latest technologies and methodologies and helping with designing and implementing innovative approaches to our customer’s problems using Automation.
·  Gaining an understanding of software standards, being able to learn processes and procedures to ensure maximum re-use and maintaining standards.
·  Ability to identify continuous improvements to both the process and the systems.
·  Understanding security policies and implementing solutions that satisfy the security requirements.
·  Participating in the design and implementation of solutions which have high availability and are scalable.

Skills & Qualifications

Essentials:

·  An interest and aptitude to work in in fast paced DevOps environment
·  2+ years’ experience working in an IT Environment
·  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.
·  Excellent communication skills (written and verbal).
·  Attention to detail with a pragmatic and enthusiastic attitude to work.
·  Ability to learn new skills and technologies

Should have awareness of some or all of the following:-

·  Digital delivery processes and methodologies
·  Configuration management tools, e.g. Ansible (preferred), Puppet, Chef.
·  Build and provisioning tools, eg. Jenkins (preferred), Terraform, Packer,Team City etc.
·  Cloud Environments including AWS, Azure, Google and Oracle cloud.
·  Test Driven or Behavior Driven development, and being able to implement automated test solutions
·  Integrating various products using APIs enabling a joined up automated approach
·  Monitoring systems e.g. ELK, Nagios, New Relic, DataDog, Splunk etc.
·  Docker container hosting including Kubernetes and RedShift.
·  Modern programing languages, understanding at least one of: Bash script, Python, Ruby, Perl, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, PowerShell

To satisfy our contractual obligations with clients, the candidate will be required to pass additional background checks, so we are looking for UK nationals only.

DXC Office in Chorley is easily commutable from Manchester. Has a train station nearby and is closer to M61 (Junction 28).

DXC Technology is committed to the development of a fully inclusive workforce. All applications for employment are assessed purely on merit, against the capabilities and competencies required for the role.DXC Technology does not discriminate on the basis of gender, ethnic origin, race, faith or sexual orientation.