Cloud Platform Engineer - OpenShift Kubernetes

Cloud Platform Engineer (OpenShift / Kubernetes) Initially 6 months Manchester or Knowsley (Hybrid - 2 days onsite / 3 remote) 550 per day - Inside IR35

PCR Digital is supporting a leading UK technology and communications organisation as they continue a major infrastructure transformation programme.

We're looking for an experienced Cloud Platform Engineer to join a highly skilled engineering team building a brand-new internal hosting platform based on Red Hat OpenShift. This is an opportunity to play a key role in modernising enterprise infrastructure rather than simply maintaining existing environments.

You'll work alongside architects, platform engineers and delivery teams to help design, build and scale a next-generation private cloud platform supporting critical business services.

What you'll be doing

• Build and deploy a new enterprise hosting platform based on Red Hat OpenShift.

• 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.

Essential Skills

• Red Hat OpenShift

• Kubernetes

• Platform Engineering

• Infrastructure Engineering

• Enterprise infrastructure deployments

Desirable Experience

• Ansible

• Infrastructure automation

• Enterprise networking

• Bare metal infrastructure

• Private cloud environments

• Large-scale infrastructure transformation projects

We're looking for someone who:

• Has strong hands-on platform engineering experience.

• Can quickly get up to speed and become productive within an established engineering team.

• Enjoys solving complex infrastructure challenges.

• Has worked within enterprise-scale environments.

• Is comfortable working in fast-moving delivery teams.