OpenShift Platform Engineer
Posted 1 day ago by Experis UK
£650 Per day
Outside
Hybrid
Corsham, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The role of OpenShift Platform Engineer involves supporting the engineering and delivery of secure container platforms on Red Hat OpenShift for a major MOD platform programme. The position requires a DV Cleared professional to work within a high-performing team, focusing on building, improving, and operating enterprise Kubernetes environments. The engineer will engage in both development and live production environments, emphasizing workload onboarding and secure DevSecOps pipeline integration. This is a hands-on role that requires building and deploying workloads rather than traditional support tasks.
Key Responsibilities:
- Build, configure, and maintain Red Hat OpenShift platforms
- Support application teams onboarding containerised workloads
- Contribute to CI/CD and DevSecOps pipeline engineering
- Implement platform automation, security integration, and Infrastructure as Code
- Support performance, availability, and continuous platform improvement
Key Skills:
- Strong hands-on experience with OpenShift and Kubernetes
- DevOps / DevSecOps or Platform Engineering background
- Experience deploying and managing containerised workloads in production
- Experience working in secure or regulated environments preferred
- Active DV Clearance required
Salary (Rate): £650 daily
City: Corsham
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: Senior
Industry: IT
DV Cleared Senior DevSecOps / OpenShift Platform Engineer - Corsham
Up to £650 per day - Outside IR35
Hybrid - 3 days per week on site
We are supporting a major MOD platform programme seeking an experienced DV Cleared DevSecOps / Platform Engineer to support the engineering and delivery of secure container platforms hosted on Red Hat OpenShift . This role sits within a high-performing platform engineering team responsible for building, improving, and operating enterprise Kubernetes environments supporting critical defence workloads. Engineers will work across both development and live production environments , supporting platform capability development, workload onboarding, and secure DevSecOps pipeline integration. This is not a traditional support role. We are specifically looking for engineers who build, engineer, and deploy workloads on the platform - not just operate it.
Key Responsibilities
- Build, configure, and maintain Red Hat OpenShift platforms
- Support application teams onboarding containerised workloads
- Contribute to CI/CD and DevSecOps pipeline engineering
- Implement platform automation, security integration, and Infrastructure as Code
- Support performance, availability, and continuous platform improvement
Key Experience Required
- Strong hands-on experience with OpenShift and Kubernetes
- DevOps / DevSecOps or Platform Engineering background
- Experience deploying and managing containerised workloads in production
- Experience working in secure or regulated environments preferred
- Active DV Clearance required
Contract details
Up to £650 per day Outside IR35 Hybrid working - 3 days per week onsite in Corsham