Platform engineer
Job Description
Platform Engineer
- Contract position (6 months likelihood of extension)
- London / Edinburgh / Remote
- Inside IR35
- Competitive day rate
Role Overview
We are seeking an experienced OpenShift Platform Engineer to join our Openshift platform team on a contract basis, providing critical backfill support. The role focuses on the operational management, support, and continuous improvement of our enterprise OpenShift platform running on x86 infrastructure, within a highly regulated financial services environment.
The successful candidate will be hands-on, operationally strong, and proactive, with a solid SRE mindset to enhance platform reliability, performance, and user experience for internal application teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage and support Red Hat OpenShift clusters hosted on x86 infrastructure.
- Provide day-to-day operational support for the OpenShift platform, ensuring high availability and performance and BAU maintenance.
- Implement and enhance automation across platform operations (provisioning, scaling, patching, incident response).
- Maintain and improve platform reliability, observability, and resilience using SRE principles.
- Contribute to incident, problem, and change management processes in line with regulated environment standards.
Required Skills & Experience
- Proven experience managing OpenShift on x86-based infrastructure & container technologies.
- Strong focus on incident management, root cause analysis, and recovery.
- Experience working with VMware vSphere / virtualised infrastructure environments.
- Strong troubleshooting skills across:
- Networking
- Storage
- Container orchestration
Domain Experience
- Proven experience working within financial services or similarly regulated environments.
- Strong understanding of:
- Governance, risk, and compliance requirements
- Change control and audit practices
Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.