OpenShift Platform Engineer

𝐉𝐨𝐛 𝐓𝐢𝐭𝐥𝐞: 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐒𝐡𝐢𝐟𝐭 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐫 𝐋𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: 𝐑𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐞 𝐃𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: 𝐋𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐓𝐞𝐫𝐦 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. - Partner with application teams to support onboarding, troubleshooting, and platform usage. - Diagnose and resolve complex platform and application issues across the stack (compute, storage, networking, containers). - Work closely with infrastructure teams supporting VMware virtualised environments. - Ensure compliance with security, audit, and regulatory requirements. - Produce and maintain clear technical documentation and operational runbooks. 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 - Platform performance - Demonstrable experience in production operations & support environments - Experience supporting internal application teams consuming platform services. - Ability to work under pressure in critical service environments. - Experience with automation tools (e.g., Ansible, Terraform, scripting). - Competence in at least one scripting/programming language (e.g., Python, Bash, Go). - Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps tooling. 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 - Secure platform operations 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐒𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐬: - Exposure to SRE practices (SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, observability). - Experience with monitoring and logging tools - Familiarity with hybrid or multi-cloud environments. - Knowledge of security best practices in container platforms. - Red Hat certifications (e.g., RHCSA, RHCE, OpenShift certification) are advantageous. 𝐒𝐨𝐟𝐭 𝐒𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐬: - Strong collaboration and communication skills. - Ability to work with cross-functional teams (platform, infrastructure, applications). - Proactive mindset with a focus on continuous improvement. - Strong analytical and problem-solving ability. 𝐊𝐞𝐲 𝐀𝐭𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐬: - Hands-on, “get things done” operator. - Strong ownership and accountability. - Customer-focused, supporting internal platform users (application teams). - SRE mindset – focused on improving reliability, reducing toil, and automating repetitive tasks.