Job type
ContractLocation
EdinburghWorking Pattern
Full-timeSpecialism
InfrastructureIndustry
Banking & Financial ServicesPay
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Hays Contract Role: OpenShift Platform Engineer – Edinburgh
Join a leading Banking and financial services provider as an OpenShift Platform Engineer.
Job Overview
We are seeking an experienced OpenShift Platform Engineer to join our OpenShift platform team on a contract basis, providing critical backfill support. The role focusses 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.
Tittle: OpenShift Platform Engineer
Location: Edinburgh
Start/End Date: 06-July-2026 (ASAP) to 06-Jan-2027
Work Schedule: Mon–Fri 09:00–05:30PM
Key Responsibilities
- Manage 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 incidents, problems, and change management processes in line with regulated environmental standards.
- Partner with application teams to support onboarding, troubleshooting, and platform usage.
- Diagnose and resolve complex platform and application issues across the stack (compute, storage, networking, containers).
- Work closely with infrastructure teams supporting VMware virtualised environments.
- Ensure compliance with security, audit, and regulatory requirements.
- Produce and maintain clear technical documentation and operational run books.
Key Requirement
- Proven experience managing OpenShift on x86-based infrastructure & container technologies.
- Strong focus on incident management, root cause analysis, and recovery.
- Experience working with VMware vSphere / virtualised infrastructure environments.
- Strong troubleshooting skills across:
- Demonstrable experience in production operations & support environments
- Experience supporting internal application teams consuming platform services.
- Ability to work under pressure in critical service environments.
- Experience with automation tools (e.g., Ansible, Terraform, scripting).
- Competence in at least one scripting/programming language (e.g., Python, Bash, Go).
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps tooling.
How to Apply: If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now. If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion about your career.
