OpenShift Platform Engineer
Posted 4 days ago by 1753806017
£600 Per day
Inside
Remote
Newcastle upon Tyne
Summary: The OpenShift Platform Engineer role involves migrating from OpenShift 4.14 to a new OpenShift 4.18 build, requiring an experienced engineer to ensure the technical setup and migration of applications and infrastructure. The position is remote and requires current active SC clearance. The engineer will work with critical business workloads and various operators within the OpenShift environment.
Key Responsibilities:
- Deploy and operate OpenShift clusters (v4.x) from scratch.
- Validate platform components and installation scripts.
- Migrate applications and operators between OpenShift clusters.
- Ensure the technical assurance of the new cluster setup.
- Support migration checklists, configuration validation, and post-migration testing.
Key Skills:
- Proven experience with OpenShift clusters.
- Strong Kubernetes knowledge, especially with enterprise OpenShift configurations.
- Hands-on experience with HashiCorp Vault, Red Hat Quay, Clair, Keycloak, and OpenShift Service Mesh.
- Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (Ansible/Terraform).
- Experience with CI/CD and GitOps tools (e.g., Jenkins, ArgoCD, Tekton).
- Scripting skills in Bash or Python.
- Security tooling experience and integration with CI/CD pipelines.
- Current active SC clearance is essential.
Salary (Rate): £600 daily
City: Newcastle upon Tyne
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: Mid-Level
Industry: IT
OpenShift Platform Engineer
+6 months +
+Remote working
+£550 - £600 a day
+SC cleared
Skills:
+OpenShift clusters
+ HashiCorp Vault
+Ansible / Terraform
+Kubernetes
+Current active SC clearance is essential
My client is migrating from OpenShift 4.14 to a clean-slate OpenShift 4.18 build. The role requires an experienced engineer who can technically assure the setup of the new cluster and the migration of applications, infrastructure components, and operators. The current cluster supports critical business workloads.
Key Requirements:
- Proven experience in deploying and operating OpenShift clusters (v4.x) from scratch.
- Strong Kubernetes knowledge, particularly around enterprise OpenShift configurations.
- Must be comfortable validating platform components and installation scripts.
- Experience migrating applications and operators between OpenShift clusters.
- Hands-on familiarity with the following operators:
- HashiCorp Vault - secrets management
- Red Hat Quay - internal container registry
- Clair - container image vulnerability scanning
- Keycloak - identity and access management
- OpenShift Service Mesh (Istio) - microservices communications
Additional Skills:
- Infrastructure as Code (Ansible/Terraform)
- CI/CD and GitOps (e.g. Jenkins, ArgoCD, Tekton)
- Scripting in Bash or Python
- Able to support migration checklists, config validation, and post-migration testing
- Security Tooling experience and integration with CI/CD pipelines - SCA, SAST, DAST
If you'd like to discuss this OpenShift Platform Engineer role in more detail, please send your updated CV to chloe.manerowski@cbsbutler.com and I will get in touch.
