Cloud Platform Engineer

Salary: £? - ? per year

Requirements

• Strong hands-on platform engineering experience
• Red Hat OpenShift experience
• Kubernetes experience
• Platform engineering experience
• Infrastructure engineering experience
• Experience with enterprise infrastructure deployments
• Experience with Ansible is desirable
• Experience with infrastructure automation is desirable
• Experience with enterprise networking is desirable
• Experience with bare metal infrastructure is desirable
• Experience with private cloud environments is desirable
• Experience with large-scale infrastructure transformation projects is desirable
• Experience working within enterprise-scale environments
• Ability to quickly get up to speed and become productive within an established engineering team
• Comfortable working in fast-moving delivery teams

Responsibilities

• Build and deploy a new enterprise hosting platform based on Red Hat OpenShift
• Support a large-scale infrastructure transformation programme
• Work closely with architects, platform engineers and delivery teams
• Help improve platform scalability, resilience and operational efficiency
• Contribute to infrastructure automation and platform engineering best practices
• Support ongoing platform enhancements as the environment continues to evolve
• Help modernise enterprise infrastructure by building a brand-new internal hosting platform

Technologies

• Ansible
• Cloud
• Support
• Kubernetes
• OpenShift
• DevOps

More

We are supporting a leading UK technology and communications organisation as they continue a major infrastructure transformation programme. We are building a highly skilled engineering team to deliver a brand-new internal hosting platform based on Red Hat OpenShift, modernising enterprise infrastructure rather than simply maintaining existing environments. This is an initial 6-month hybrid contract based in Manchester or Knowsley, with 2 days onsite and 3 days remote, offered inside IR35 at £550 per day. You will work alongside architects, platform engineers and delivery teams to help design, build and scale a next-generation private cloud platform supporting critical business services.

last updated 29 week of 2026