Platform Engineer - #2196560

Platform / Infrastructure Engineer

Glasgow, UK

Contract

Job Description:

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain Hyper-V clusters, including live migration, replication, and capacity planning
• Deploy, upgrade, and operate OpenShift (OCP 4.x) clusters
• Support VM and container workloads, including OpenShift Virtualization
• Automate provisioning and configuration with Ansible, Terraform, and PowerShell
• Build CI/CD and GitOps pipelines (Jenkins, Tekton, ArgoCD)
• Monitor platform health and troubleshoot performance, networking, and storage issues
• Apply security and access controls (RBAC, SCC, patching)
• Plan and execute VMware-to-OpenShift migrations
• Document processes and support on-call rotations

Required Skills

• 8+ years with Hyper-V, Windows Server, Failover Clustering, and SCVMM
• 8+ years with OpenShift/Kubernetes, Docker/Podman, and Helm
• Strong Linux (RHEL) administration
• Scripting in PowerShell, Bash, or Python
• Experience with Ansible, Git, and CI/CD tools
• Solid grasp of networking (DNS, VLANs, load balancing) and storage (CSI, ODF/Ceph)

Nice to Have

• Java/Spring Boot, Go, or Python application experience
• Red Hat certifications (EX280, EX180) or CKA
• Azure Stack HCI, Azure, or AWS
• Prometheus, Grafana, ELK