Principal Red Hat OpenShift Consultant

Location: London South East

Life on the team Location - UK Wide Are you an experienced Open Shift Consultant or Architect with a passion for enterprise architecture, cloud-native platforms, and helping organisations modernise at scale? This is an exciting opportunity to become a recognised technical authority, shaping Open Shift strategy across some of the UK's most complex enterprise environments. You'll combine strategic consultancy, architectural governance, and customer engagement while influencing the future direction of our Open Shift capability.

You'll be joining a collaborative team of architects, consultants, and technical specialists delivering large-scale cloud transformation programmes across public and private sector customers. Working closely with customers, Red Hat, and internal stakeholders, you'll define best practices, shape enterprise architectures, and support major programmes spanning hybrid cloud, container platforms, and application modernisation. What you'll do Act as the technical authority for complex Open Shift and Kubernetes solutions Define enterprise reference architectures, standards, and best practices across the practice Lead architecture strategy for large-scale hybrid and multi-cloud transformation programmes Provide governance and technical assurance across high-profile customer engagements Support strategic pre-sales activities, major bids, and customer workshops Advise senior customer stakeholders including CTOs, Heads of Engineering, and Platform Owners Drive security, resilience, and operational best practice across Open Shift environments Collaborate with Red Hat and internal teams to develop new propositions and reusable delivery assets Mentor consultants and architects while helping grow the Open Shift practice Stay at the forefront of cloud-native technologies and emerging industry trends What you'll need Extensive experience designing and delivering enterprise Red Hat Open Shift solutions Expert knowledge of Kubernetes, container platforms, and hybrid/multi-cloud architectures Strong consultancy and enterprise architecture experience within complex customer environments Experience defining architecture standards, governance, and technical best practices Proven ability to lead large-scale cloud transformation programmes Strong stakeholder management skills, with experience engaging senior technical and business leaders Experience supporting complex pre-sales engagements and strategic customer opportunities A passion for mentoring technical teams and developing consultancy capability Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate technical concepts into business outcomes Desirable certifications include:
Red Hat Open Shift (EX280 essential, EX316/EX267 desirable, RHCA highly advantageous) Kubernetes certifications (CKA/CKAD) Ongoing professional development in enterprise architecture and cloud-native technologies If you're looking for a role where you can combine enterprise architecture, technical leadership, and strategic consultancy while shaping the future of Open Shift solutions at Computacenter, we'd love to hear from you.