DevOps Automation Engineer

DXC Technology•Detroit, MI

About The Position

DXC Technology (NYSE: DXC) empowers global companies to operate their mission-critical systems and operations while modernizing IT, optimizing data architectures, and ensuring security and scalability across public, private, and hybrid clouds. Many of the world’s largest companies and public sector organizations trust DXC to deliver exceptional service across the Enterprise Technology Stack, driving performance, competitiveness, and customer experience. Discover more about our commitment to excellence for customers and colleagues at DXC.com. At DXC, we harness the power of technology to deliver essential IT services that help our clients modernize operations and drive innovation across their entire IT infrastructure. Our services span the Enterprise Technology Stack and include business process outsourcing, insurance, analytics and engineering, applications, security, cloud, IT outsourcing, and modern workplace solutions. The DevOps Automation Expert is responsible for designing, implementing, and optimizing monitoring and automation solutions on the AWS platform. This role requires strong expertise in cloud architecture, containerization, and observability tools such as Kubernetes, Grafana, and Prometheus. You will collaborate closely with development, operations, and security teams to ensure the availability, reliability, scalability, and security of DXC platforms.

Requirements

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
10–12 years of overall IT experience
Minimum 4 years of hands-on experience with Kubernetes and containerization
Proven experience building Docker containers across multiple technologies
Strong experience working in Agile environments

Nice To Haves

Advanced Kubernetes administration (cluster upgrades, scaling, best practices)
Experience with Terraform and Ansible
Strong background in AWS networking and security architectures
Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving abilities
Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
Leadership mindset with mentoring capabilities
Ability to work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment

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.
Jira & Confluence Administration 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.