Openshift SME​/Architect

Job Title:

Open Shift Architect

Location:

Sheffield, UK (2-3 Days Onsite) Job Type: Contract Inside IR35 Role This is a hybrid architect/engineer role requiring deep, hands-on expertise across the Open Shift platform. The successful candidate will play a key role in designing, building, and embedding enterprise solutions and business processes on our new Open Shift platform. You will work closely with technical and business stakeholders to shape platform capabilities, enable application teams, and ensure the delivery of scalable, secure, and high-performing solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

Design, architect, and implement enterprise-grade solutions on Red Hat Open Shift. Lead the development and rollout of business and technical processes on the Open Shift platform. Provide hands-on engineering support for platform build, configuration, and optimisation. Define platform standards, patterns, and best practices. Support application onboarding, containerisation, and migration to Open Shift. Design and implement CI/CD and Git Ops pipelines. Implement security, governance, and compliance controls across the platform.

Optimise platform performance, availability, and scalability. Collaborate with product owners, developers, and operations teams. Troubleshoot complex platform and infrastructure issues. Produce and maintain technical documentation and architecture artefacts.

Required Skills:

Experience Strong experience as an Open Shift Architect or Senior Open Shift Engineer. Deep knowledge of Red Hat Open Shift (OCP) architecture, installation, and operations. Strong hands-on Kubernetes expertise. Experience designing and building enterprise container platforms. Solid experience with CI/CD and Git Ops tools (ArgoCD, Tekton, Jenkins, Git Hub/Git Lab).

Experience with container technologies (Docker, Podman, Helm