Senior Professional Linux Engineer

0201 CSC Computer Sciences Ltd; Milton Keynes; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading IT solutions company is seeking a Senior Professional Linux Engineer to join their dynamic team in Milton Keynes. The role involves providing technical support, ensuring system performance, and improving processes. Candidates should have strong organisational skills, a proactive approach to problems, and experience with automation tools and scripting.

Benefits

Private health/medical insurance

Childcare vouchers

Gym membership

Discounts on technology, groceries, travel

Qualifications

• Experience with ITIL best practices is required.
• Desire to improve processes and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work with various Red Hat products and AWS.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical support on incidents and problems.
• Monitor system performance.
• Create and maintain documentation.

Skills

Organisation skills

Time management

Proactive problem-solving

Tools

Ansible

Puppet

AWS

Bash

Python

Git

CLI

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Senior Professional Linux Engineer, Milton Keynes

Client: 0201 CSC Computer Sciences Ltd

Location: Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

Job Category: Other

EU work permit required: Yes

Job Reference: cc7fe494c932

Job Views: 5

Posted: 02.06.2025

Expiry Date: 17.07.2025

Job Description:

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 a Senior Professional Linux Engineer 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

• Exposure to automation software such as Ansible/Puppet
• Experience or knowledge of various Red Hat related products, including Satellite 6, OpenShift 3/4, RHEL/CentOS 6/7/8, and RHEL Atomic/CoreOS
• Knowledge of scripting with Bash, Python, and/or Git
• Experience of AWS
• Basic understanding of CLI

What we will do for you:

• Competitive compensation
• 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)