# Linux Engineer - Secure - on-site Hampshire

Job Description: Role Summary The ITO Linux Engineer (Level 3) is the Linux technical authority across DXC-managed customer environments, accountable for platform integrity, complex troubleshooting, performance optimisation and architectural improvements for mission-critical workloads. They design, validate and maintain secure OS baselines and oversee patching and vulnerability management to ensure stability, security, performance and audit readiness in regulated environments. They own major Linux incidents and root-cause analysis, advising on clustering, high availability, disaster recovery configurations, kernel tuning, storage integrations and network dependencies. They automate operations using advanced shell scripting and infrastructure-as-code, approve high-risk changes following review, and mentor junior engineers to build capability and consistency. Bridging operations and engineering, they support lifecycle planning, platform modernisation and integration with automation, monitoring and configuration management tools. They partner with security and compliance teams to enforce enterprise hardening standards and maintain audit-ready documentation and evidence. The role deman

- **Id**: 3937709
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/dxc-technology-linux-engineer-secure-on-site-hampshire>
- **Role**: DevOps
- **Role family**: DevOps
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Farnborough, United Kingdom
- **Countries**: GB
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-05T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-05
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T21:59:33Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 6
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 13051
- **Description truncated**: yes
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: IT Consulting & Digital Transformation, Managed IT Services (MSP), Systems Integrators

## Company

- **Id**: 88
- **Name**: DXC Technology
- **Domain**: dxc.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/dxc-technology>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: services
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 78
- **Open postings**: 213
- **Ghost share**: 0.005
- **Stale share**: 0.859
- **Repost share**: 0.028
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 29
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Technologies

- **Amazon EC2** — Optional: no
- **Ansible** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **Bash** — Optional: no
- **CAPA** — Optional: no
- **CentOS Stream** — Optional: no
- **Chef** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Configuration Management** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **GitOps** — Optional: no
- **Grafana** — Optional: no
- **Immutable Infrastructure** — Optional: no
- **ISO 27001** — Optional: no
- **ITIL** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **MariaDB** — Optional: no
- **MySQL** — Optional: no
- **Nagios** — Optional: no
- **OpenShift** — Optional: no
- **Oracle** — Optional: no
- **Podman** — Optional: no
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: no
- **Prometheus** — Optional: no
- **Puppet** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Red Hat** — Optional: no
- **SaltStack** — Optional: no
- **Splunk** — Optional: no
- **Tcpdump** — Optional: no
- **Zabbix** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 6

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United Kingdom** — Iso: GB; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-08T09:46:45Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.632
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 5
- **Expected fill days**: 29
- **Reasons**: conf:2, stale_co, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

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