Red Hat OpenShift Engineer
Posted 1 day ago by 1767849493
£675 Per day
Inside
Remote
London
Summary: The Red Hat OpenShift Engineer role involves supporting the NHS program by designing, operating, and optimizing container platforms that are essential for critical digital and data services. The position requires collaboration with various teams to ensure secure and resilient OpenShift platforms. The engineer will also be responsible for implementing CI/CD pipelines and ensuring compliance with public sector standards. Experience within the NHS or UK central government is essential for this role.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, build, and operate Red Hat OpenShift clusters in production environments
- Support OpenShift deployments across cloud and hybrid infrastructure
- Implement and manage CI/CD pipelines for containerised workloads
- Ensure platform security, resilience, and performance in line with public sector standards
- Work closely with security architects to embed security-by-design and compliance controls
- Support application teams with containerisation, deployment, and troubleshooting
- Contribute to platform documentation, operational runbooks, and best practices
Key Skills:
- Strong hands-on experience as an OpenShift Engineer or Platform Engineer
- Proven experience building and operating Red Hat OpenShift in enterprise environments
- Solid Kubernetes expertise, including networking, storage, and ingress
- Experience running OpenShift on cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and on-prem
- Strong Linux and Red Hat ecosystem experience
- Experience working within the NHS or UK central government is essential
- Understanding of public sector security and compliance requirements (for example NCSC guidance, DSPT)
Salary: £675/day
City: London
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Red Hat OpenShift Engineer
Rate: £675/day
Contract: Inside IR35
Location: Remote, UK-based only
Sector: NHS or Central Government is ESSENTIAL
We are supporting a programme in the NHS that is seeking an experienced Red Hat OpenShift Engineer to support the build, operation, and optimisation of container platforms underpinning critical digital and data services.
The role focuses on designing and running secure, resilient OpenShift platforms, working closely with platform, cloud, security, and application teams.
Key ResponsibilitiesDesign, build, and operate Red Hat OpenShift clusters in production environments
Support OpenShift deployments across cloud and hybrid infrastructure
Implement and manage CI/CD pipelines for containerised workloads
Ensure platform security, resilience, and performance in line with public sector standards
Work closely with security architects to embed security-by-design and compliance controls
Support application teams with containerisation, deployment, and troubleshooting
Contribute to platform documentation, operational runbooks, and best practices
Required Experience
Strong hands-on experience as an OpenShift Engineer or Platform Engineer
Proven experience building and operating Red Hat OpenShift in enterprise environments
Solid Kubernetes expertise, including networking, storage, and ingress
Experience running OpenShift on cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and on-prem
Strong Linux and Red Hat ecosystem experience
Experience working within the NHS or UK central government is essential
Understanding of public sector security and compliance requirements (for example NCSC guidance, DSPT)
Nice to Have
Experience supporting data platforms, analytics, or AI/ML workloads on OpenShift
Exposure to GitOps tooling (for example Argo CD) and Infrastructure as Code
Experience working in highly regulated or mission-critical environments
Strong stakeholder and communication skills
Apply now or email for more information.