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# OpenShift Platform Engineer

- **Company:** Hays plc
- **Location:** Edinburgh, UK
- **Salary:** £26,000.0 - £33,800.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Bash Shell, Python (Programming Language), OpenShift, Ansible, VMware VSphere, Scripting, DevOps Tools - Open-source, System Availability, Containerization, Terraform, Golang, Vmware
- **Published:** September 24, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerjet.co.uk/job/gbf7287620f8a8196437aa484c3d86ca89/eaa

## About the Role

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., 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:
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.

## Description

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 incidents, problems, and change management processes in line with regulated environmental 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 run books.


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