Platform Architect - Kubernetes / OpenShift

Platform Architect - Kubernetes / OpenShift Wokingham (Hybrid Working) £100,000 - £115,000 + perm benefits We're looking for an experienced Platform Architect to join a team responsible for the ongoing architecture, engineering, and evolution of a large-scale Kubernetes platform operating within a live, enterprise production environment. This is not a project-focused role delivering greenfield Kubernetes deployments. Instead, you'll be responsible for the strategic direction, continuous improvement, resilience, and operational effectiveness of a business-critical platform supporting complex enterprise workloads. You'll work closely with platform engineering, infrastructure, security, and service teams to ensure the platform remains secure, scalable, resilient, and aligned to both operational and business objectives. The role offers the opportunity to influence platform strategy while remaining closely connected to the technical challenges of running Kubernetes at scale. What You'll Be Doing • Own and evolve the platform architecture across a large-scale Kubernetes environment. • Define and drive the platform roadmap, ensuring alignment to business and operational requirements. • Lead architectural decisions covering scalability, reliability, resilience, security, and performance. • Work with engineering teams to introduce new platform capabilities and improve existing services. • Design solutions that support high availability, disaster recovery, and operational resilience. • Assess architectural risks and identify opportunities for continual improvement. • Provide architectural governance, technical leadership, and guidance across delivery teams. Experience • Strong experience designing, operating, and evolving enterprise Kubernetes platforms. • Deep understanding of Kubernetes architecture within large-scale production environments. • Experience developing platform architecture strategies and roadmaps. • Strong knowledge of microservices-based architectures and platform-scale design. • Experience supporting platforms running across on-premise infrastructure environments. Key Skills • Kubernetes Platform Architecture • OpenShift (preferred) • Platform Engineering • Microservices Architecture • Infrastructure Architecture • Platform Reliability & Resilience • Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity • DevOps & CI/CD • Infrastructure as Code • Enterprise Architecture • Stakeholder Management