Unix System Administrator – Onsite (Cheltenham)
DXC Technology · Gloucester
Job description
About the role
DXC Technology is seeking experienced Unix System Administrators to join a platinum‑account team in Cheltenham. You will work on‑site five days a week, providing first‑ and second‑level support, implementing standards and driving continual service improvement.
Key responsibilities
- Provide first and second level technical support for incidents and problems.
- Monitor overall system performance and ensure smooth functionality.
- Create, maintain and utilise documentation.
- Assist in building compliance with processes and policies.
- Implement standards, policies and procedures for continual service improvement.
Required profile
- Excellent organisation and time‑management skills.
- Experience working to ITIL best practices.
- Proactive approach to identifying risks and root‑cause analysis.
- Willingness to share knowledge and learn from others.
- Eligibility for SC or DV security clearance, UK nationality and at least 10 years residence in the UK.
Required skills
- Proficiency with UNIX/Linux systems (Red Hat, Debian, Solaris, AIX).
- Shell scripting (Bash, KornShell).
- Infrastructure as Code tools: 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).
- Automation software experience (Ansible, Puppet).
- Scripting with Bash, Python and Git.
- Exposure to AWS.
- Virtualisation and containers (KVM, VMware, Docker, Podman).
What we offer
- Competitive compensation.
- Pension scheme.
- Comprehensive benefits package (private health/medical insurance, childcare vouchers, gym membership, etc.).
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