Platform engineer

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.