Platform engineer

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.