Platform engineer

Platform EngineerContract position (6 months likelihood of extension)London / Edinburgh / RemoteInside IR35Competitive day rateRole OverviewWe are seeking an experienced OpenShift Platform Engineer to join our Openshift platform team on a contract basis, providing critical backfill support. The role focuses on the operational management, support, and continuous improvement of our enterprise OpenShift platform running on x86 infrastructure, within a highly regulated financial services environment.The successful candidate will be hands-on, operationally strong, and proactive, with a solid SRE mindset to enhance platform reliability, performance, and user experience for internal application teams.Key ResponsibilitiesManage and support Red Hat OpenShift clusters hosted on x86 infrastructure.Provide day-to-day operational support for the OpenShift platform, ensuring high availability and performance and BAU maintenance.Implement and enhance automation across platform operations (provisioning, scaling, patching, incident response).Maintain and improve platform reliability, observability, and resilience using SRE principles.Contribute to incident, problem, and change management processes in line with regulated environment standards.Required Skills and ExperienceProven experience managing OpenShift on x86-based infrastructure and container technologies.Strong focus on incident management, root cause analysis, and recovery.Experience working with VMware vSphere / virtualised ..... full job details .....