Senior Platform Engineer (On-Prem OpenShift)

You’ll be joining a globally recognised financial services organisation undertaking a major transformation of its core platform infrastructure. The team is responsible for building and operating a large-scale private cloud platform that underpins critical business services, with a strong focus on automation, reliability, security and platform engineering best practices.

This is a highly technical engineering environment where teams own the full lifecycle of the platforms they build, from design and implementation through to operational support.

Your new role As a Platform Engineer, you’ll be responsible for the design, build, automation and operation of an enterprise-scale on-premise Kubernetes platform based on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (OCP).

This is not an application-focused Kubernetes role. The successful candidate will have a deep understanding of the underlying infrastructure and platform components required to run and support a production Kubernetes estate. You’ll work across compute, networking, storage, security and platform tooling to deliver a highly automated and resilient environment for engineering teams across the organisation.

• 5-10+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, Systems Engineering or DevOps
• Strong background in infrastructure, including systems, networking or storage
• Proven experience building and operating Kubernetes platforms within on-premise environments
• Experience running Kubernetes infrastructure rather than simply deploying applications into Kubernetes
• Strong Linux administration skills, ideally within Red Hat environments
• Experience implementing automation, CI/CD and GitOps workflows
• Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
• Engineering-first mindset with a hands-on approach
• Naturally inquisitive and capable of working across multiple technology domains

• £800 per day (Inside IR35)
• Initial 6-month contract with strong extension potential
• Hybrid working from London
• Opportunity to work on one of the organisation’s strategic platform initiatives
• Exposure to large-scale Kubernetes and OpenShift environments
• Collaborative engineering culture with significant platform ownership and autonomy