Senior SRE & Performance Engineer

DXC Technology Company; South Carolina; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

DXC Technology is seeking a senior Software Engineer focused on Performance and Reliability to improve the availability, scalability, and efficiency of enterprise systems across legacy and cloud platforms. The role emphasizes execution, deep technical expertise, and independent operation in high-stakes environments.

The successful candidate will lead reliability initiatives, drive observability improvements, and collaborate with engineering and operations teams to meet service levels, optimize

Qualifications

• 7+ years of hands-on software engineering experience in performance and reliability.
• Bachelor's degree in IT or related field or equivalent experience.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship now or in the future.
• Mainframe and COBOL application experience.
• Experience with Java-based/cloud-native enterprise systems and AWS environments.

Responsibilities

• Provides leadership in improving reliability and performance for targeted services, platforms, or programs.
• Operates across hybrid environments (including mainframe workloads and AWS-hosted services) with diverse integrations and dependencies.
• Drives incident reduction through measurable reliability goals (SLIs/SLOs), runbooks, and automation within defined engagement scopes.
• Influences technical standards, operational practices, and architecture within local domains, partnering with teams to implement durable reliability improvements.
• Interacts with software development, delivery, and customer-facing teams to coordinate rapid triage and post-incident remediation.

Skills

Performance engineering

Observability & tracing

Dynatrace

AWS

Mainframe COBOL

Incident response leadership

SRE leadership

Java-based/cloud-native apps

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT or related field

Tools

Dynatrace

CI/CD pipelines

Container orchestration

Job description

DXC Technology is seeking a senior Software Engineer focused on Performance and Reliability to improve the availability, scalability, and efficiency of enterprise systems across legacy and cloud platforms. The role emphasizes execution, deep technical expertise, and independent operation in high-stakes environments.

The successful candidate will lead reliability initiatives, drive observability improvements, and collaborate with engineering and operations teams to meet service levels, optimize