Hybrid DevOps Automation Engineer

at DXC Technology

• Job title: DevOps Automation Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior, Lead
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Ansible, AWS, Cloud, Docker, EC2, Grafana, Groovy, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Linux, NGINX, Prometheus, Python, Ruby, Terraform, Unix, Go
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Charleston, United States

About the role

• DevOps Automation Engineer designing and implementing AWS monitoring and automation solutions. Working collaboratively to enhance service delivery for enterprises and public sector organizations.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable monitoring and automation solutions on AWS.
• Continuously improve the existing DevOps platform through collaboration with internal and external stakeholders.
• Build capabilities around emerging DevOps tools and technologies aligned with business needs.
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to engineering teams.
• Advise stakeholders and customers on modern DevOps practices, tools, and automation strategies.
• Define and enforce DevOps processes, standards, and best practices.
• Ensure compliance with security policies and implement DevSecOps practices.
• Lead technical discussions, solution design, and delivery execution.
• Administer and manage Jira and Confluence environments ensuring high availability and performance.
• Customize workflows, permissions, dashboards, and reports.
• Configure and manage plugins, integrations, APIs, and webhooks.
• Provide user support, training, and documentation (runbooks, workflows).
• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate business requirements into tool configurations.

Requirements

• 10–12 years of overall IT experience
• Minimum 4 years of hands-on experience with Kubernetes and containerization
• Strong experience with AWS Cloud (Public & Private) services: Lambda, S3, EC2, ECS, EKS, Fargate Route53, ELB/NLB CloudWatch, IAM, VPC Auto Scaling, AWS CLI, CloudFormation
• Hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes (EKS, Kops)
• Expertise in monitoring & observability tools: Grafana, Prometheus, Fluentd
• Experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines: Jenkins (master/slave configuration)
• Proficiency in DevOps tools: GitHub, Jenkins, Jira, Confluence, Artifactory, Kibana
• Strong scripting skills: Groovy, Python, Ruby, Go
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code: CloudFormation (required), Terraform (preferred)
• Configuration management tools: Ansible (preferred)
• Experience with auto-scaling and cloud architecture design principles
• Knowledge of configuration-as-code and documentation-as-code
• Solid understanding of: AWS networking and security, DevSecOps principles, Reverse proxy servers (NGINX)
• Hands-on experience in Unix/Linux administration
• Understanding of AWS billing and cost optimization.

Benefits

• This role supports a 24x7 operations environment, requiring flexibility for on-call or shift-based support.
• In-person collaboration while offering flexibility to support wellbeing, productivity, individual work styles, and life circumstances.
• Equal Opportunity employer.