Lead Platform & Resilience Architect - 6 Months

Job Title: Lead Platform & Resilience Architect
Rate: £555 (Inside IR35)
Duration: 6 months
Location: 1 day per week in Wokingham, the rest remote
Clearance: BPSS
Stages: 1 Stage

Must Have Government Experience

Experienced Lead Platform and Resilience Architect to define and drive resilience strategies for a complex, multi-cluster OpenShift environment. The role combines strategic oversight with hands-on technical expertise, ensuring that platform and application features align with regulatory and industry standards while delivering high availability, disaster recovery, and performance at scale.

Key Responsibilities:

Define and maintain platform resilience strategies to meet regulatory and industry compliance requirements.
Provide technical leadership and oversight for resilience architecture across multiple OpenShift clusters.
Collaborate with customer and supplier architecture teams to ensure alignment of designs and implementations.
Lead workshops, design reviews, and stakeholder discussions (technical and business).
Guide technical teams on high availability, disaster recovery, failover, security hardening, and performance tuning.
Ensure resilience is Embedded in CI/CD pipelines, GitOps workflows, and automated deployments.
Support continuous improvement of platform resilience as new features and applications are introduced.

Required Skills & Experience:

Proven experience as a Senior Architect in large-scale, mission-critical environments

Expertise in Red Hat OpenShift and related technologies: ACM (Advanced Cluster Management), ACS (Advanced Cluster Security), GitOps, Pipelines, ODF (OpenShift Data Foundation), Service Mesh 3.0, AMQ operators