Cloud Platform Engineer - OpenShift Kubernetes

Cloud Platform Engineer (OpenShift / Kubernetes)

Initially 6 months

Manchester or Knowsley (Hybrid - 2 days onsite / 3 remote)

550 per day - Inside IR35

PCR Digital is supporting a leading UK technology and communications organisation as they continue a major infrastructure transformation programme.

We're looking for an experienced Cloud Platform Engineer to join a highly skilled engineering team building a brand-new internal hosting platform based on Red Hat OpenShift. This is an opportunity to play a key role in modernising enterprise infrastructure rather than simply maintaining existing environments.

You'll work alongside architects, platform engineers and delivery teams to help design, build and scale a next-generation private cloud platform supporting critical business services.

What you'll be doing

• 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.

Essential Skills

• Red Hat OpenShift
• Kubernetes
• Platform Engineering
• Infrastructure Engineering
• Enterprise infrastructure deployments

Desirable Experience

• Ansible
• Infrastructure automation
• Enterprise networking
• Bare metal infrastructure
• Private cloud environments
• Large-scale infrastructure transformation projects

We're looking for someone who

• Has strong hands-on platform engineering experience.
• Can quickly get up to speed and become productive within an established engineering team.
• Enjoys solving complex infrastructure challenges.
• Has worked within enterprise-scale environments.
• Is comfortable working in fast-moving delivery teams.