At a Glance
- Tasks: Build and deploy a cutting-edge enterprise hosting platform using Red Hat OpenShift.
- Company: Join a leading UK tech and communications organisation driving major infrastructure transformation.
- Benefits: Competitive pay of £550 per day, hybrid work model, and opportunity to work on innovative projects.
- Other info: Dynamic team environment with excellent opportunities for professional growth.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by modernising enterprise infrastructure and enhancing platform efficiency.
- Qualifications: Strong hands-on experience in platform engineering, Kubernetes, and enterprise infrastructure.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
- Salary
- £? - ? per year
Requirements
- Strong hands‑on platform engineering experience
- Red Hat Open Shift 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 Open Shift
- 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
- Open Shift
- Dev Ops
- 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 Open Shift, 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.
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