eFinancialCareers
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.
To apply for this job please visit www.reed.co.uk.
Make this application stronger
Use these quick checks before applying so your CV, interview preparation and job search are better matched to this vacancy.
Before you apply
Check the key details and make sure the role matches what you are looking for.
- Review the job title, company, location, salary and working pattern if provided.
- Check the skills, experience or qualifications requested by the employer.
- Make sure the commute, hours and contract type are realistic for you.
Tailor your CV
For Engineering Jobs, highlight the most relevant skills, experience and achievements linked to this type of work. Keep it honest, clear and focused on what the employer is asking for.
Use the CV Builder or browse Career Advice.
Prepare for interview
If your application is successful, prepare simple examples that show your motivation, strengths and suitability.
Keep searching smarter
Do not rely on one application. Keep searching similar roles and set up alerts so new vacancies reach you faster.