Openshift Engineer

OpenShift Automation Engineer

We are looking for an experienced OpenShift Automation Engineer to join a platform engineering team focused on automating and scaling OpenShift Virtualization environments.

The role will suit engineers with hands-on experience of OpenShift Virtualization , including VM lifecycle management and building automated platform capabilities. Candidates with a strong platform engineering background and expertise in API-driven automation within OpenShift environments are also highly desirable.

Key Skills & experience

• OpenShift Virtualization administration and automation.
• VM lifecycle management, provisioning, decommissioning and migration activities.
• experience migrating workloads from VMware vSphere to OpenShift Virtualization .
• Platform engineering and infrastructure automation in cloud-native environments.
• GitOps-based automation using ArgoCD and CI/CD tooling such as GitHub Actions , Jenkins or equivalent.
• Development of infrastructure automation solutions using Python and/or Go .
• Strong Linux administration skills.
• Proficiency with YAML , JSON , REST APIs and Infrastructure as Code principles.
• experience building reusable automation frameworks and self-service platform capabilities.

Desirable

• Kubernetes/OpenShift platform engineering experience.
• experience designing API-driven automation for virtualised and containerised platforms.
• Exposure to hybrid infrastructure environments and modern platform operating models.
• experience contributing to software engineering best practices, including version control, testing and code reviews.

Logistics

• 3 days onsite
• Inside ir35
• Initial 6 month contract

Job Title: Openshift Engineer

Location: Manchester, UK

Job Type: Contract

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