Platform engineer

Platform Engineer

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• Contract position (6 months likelihood of extension)
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• London / Edinburgh / Remote
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• Inside IR35
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• Competitive day rate
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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

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• Manage and support Red Hat OpenShift clusters hosted on x86 infrastructure.
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• Provide day-to-day operational support for the OpenShift platform, ensuring high availability and performance and BAU maintenance.
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• Implement and enhance automation across platform operations (provisioning, scaling, patching, incident response).
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• Maintain and improve platform reliability, observability, and resilience using SRE principles.
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• Contribute to incident, problem, and change management processes in line with regulated environment standards.
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Required Skills & Experience

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• Proven experience managing OpenShift on x86-based infrastructure & container technologies.
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• Strong focus on incident management, root cause analysis, and recovery.
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• Experience working with VMware vSphere / virtualised infrastructure environments.
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• Strong troubleshooting skills across:
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• Networking
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• Storage
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• Container orchestration
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Domain Experience

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• Proven experience working within financial services or similarly regulated environments.
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• Strong understanding of:
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• Governance, risk, and compliance requirements
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• Change control and audit practices
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Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.