Introduction

Company cultures & job summary

Join a high-performing engineering environment delivering critical platform services within a secure and mission-focused setting. You'll be part of a collaborative technical team where reliability, innovation and continuous improvement are highly valued, working with modern container platforms and automation tools on complex infrastructure challenges.

This is a hands-on Platform Engineer role focused on supporting and enhancing Kubernetes and OpenShift environments, managing Linux systems, improving automation, and ensuring secure, resilient platform operations. Ideal for someone who enjoys solving technical problems, working onsite with specialist teams, and making a direct impact in a high-security environment.

Working Patterns and location - This role is based full time on site.

Key responsibilities

• Build, support and enhance Kubernetes platform environments with a strong focus on OpenShift.
• Administer, maintain and troubleshoot Linux systems supporting core platform services.
• Manage container orchestration, workload deployments and full cluster lifecycle activities.
• Configure and support networking components including DNS, load balancing, ingress/egress, firewalls and network policies.
• Drive automation using Infrastructure as Code and configuration management tooling.
• Monitor platform performance, investigate incidents and complete root cause analysis.
• Deliver upgrades, patching and capacity planning across Kubernetes and OpenShift clusters.
• Help define technical standards, maintain documentation and promote best practice.

Skills & experience

• Proven hands-on experience administering Linux systems within live production environments.
• Strong practical knowledge of Kubernetes, including cluster management, troubleshooting and workload orchestration.
• Hands-on experience with OpenShift, including operators, image streams, routes and RBAC.
• Solid networking knowledge covering TCP/IP, routing, DNS, load balancing and network security.
• Experience working with container technologies such as Docker and CRI-O.
• Knowledge of automation and Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform and Ansible.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools including Prometheus, Grafana and ELK.
• Strong troubleshooting skills with the ability to solve issues across complex distributed environments.

Our client is committed to providing a diverse and inclusive workplace and welcomes applications from all backgrounds.

Part-time opportunities/flexible working is available to suit individual needs.

Please note that the client has determined that the off-payroll working rules will apply to this assignment and therefore this contract will be run through an Umbrella Company. Income tax and primary national insurance contributions will be deducted at source from any payments made to the intermediary.

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