Job Description:

Technical Architect

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.

At DXC, one of our platinum accounts has an opening for a Technical Architect. The successful candidate will be a highly motivated self-starter who will have proven hands-on experience in an engineering background specialising in either VMWare and Virtualisation or Linux. The candidate should also be passionate about conceptualising, designing, and resolving architectural problems and be able to switch between system design/architecture, hands on development, implementation, and client engagement activities.

Role responsibilities:

Work closely with the Account Solution Architect to design, and implement innovative approaches to their problems and challenges
Have a deep technical understanding and to support engineers in the build and development of POC’s and have a hands-on approach to designing and implementing solutions which have high availability, achieve performance metrics and are scalable
Helping to shape, evolve and document the architecture that underpins the existing platforms and services and lead their on-going transition from legacy systems to cloud based architectures.
Interacting with project roles as required, to gain an understanding of the complex business environment, technical context, end client requirements and organisational strategic direction.
Advising our customer on the latest technologies and methodologies

What you will bring to the team:

Enthusiasm for collaboration and excellent communication skills (written and verbal)
An interest in keeping up with emerging tools, techniques, and technologies
Effective time management and organisational skills
A flexible and Agile way of working within a fast paced and everchanging environment.
Attention to detail with a pragmatic and enthusiastic attitude to work
Demonstrates a high level of energy, enthusiasm, and tenacity to achieve a positive result
Is a self-starter, overcomes obstacles and is driven to succeed
Works well under pressure to meet deadlines
Rapid adaptability in terms of technology and approach are key

Desirable Skills and Technologies:

Wintel
AD/AAD
MS SQL – At a deep design level – understanding of clusters etc..
VMware
PowerShell

HCI technologies
Linux
Azure
NetBackup (or general backup technology experience of on premise and cloud solutions)

A proven track record in technical computing-based environments
Deployment automation technologies
The ability to code, especially Infrastructure as code
Network design, implementation, and administration
A track record in the design and application of systems, leveraging automation technologies
A deep understanding of Virtualisation and Container technologies
Design of large, complex systems including practical experimentation and development skills
Has both technical breadth and depth and great client engagement skills

What we will do for you:

Competitive compensation
Pension scheme

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)
DXC incentives (recognition tools, employee lunches, regular social events etc)

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