Kubernetes Platform Engineer - Migration & Infra Lead

Searchability®; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 79,000; Full time

Job summary

Searchability® in Sheffield is seeking a Platform & Infrastructure Senior Engineer to lead the migration from VMware/oVirt to a Kubernetes‑based platform. This on-site role focuses on delivering resilient, production‑grade infrastructure and drives DR/HA planning, monitoring, and automation across storage, networking and cloud services.

The successful candidate will bring deep Kubernetes production experience, Linux administration (CentOS/RHEL) and strong automation skills with Ansible or

Qualifications

• Strong commercial experience managing Kubernetes in production environments.
• Kubernetes cluster lifecycle management – building, upgrading and operating clusters.
• Experience migrating workloads from VMware, oVirt / RHV or similar hypervisor environments into Kubernetes.
• Strong Linux Systems Administration experience, ideally CentOS / RHEL.
• Infrastructure automation using Ansible and / or Terraform.
• Good understanding of networking, storage, HA and DR within production infrastructure.
• Experience with technologies such as Talos Linux, Cilium, rook-ceph, BGP and / or Rancher would be particularly useful.
• Wider exposure to AWS, monitoring / observability, Git and shell or Python scripting would be beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Migrate real production workloads from traditional virtualization to Kubernetes.
• Design and build resilient, production‑ready infrastructure.
• Contribute to DR/HA planning and improve developer workflows.
• Produce technical documentation and act as escalation point for complex infra issues.
• Work across storage, networking, monitoring, cloud and automation as part of the migration.

Skills

Kubernetes

Platform Engineering

Infrastructure

VMware

oVirt

RHV

Talos Linux

Cilium

rook-ceph

Ceph

BGP

Rancher

Linux

CentOS

RHEL

Ansible

Terraform

AWS

EC2

VPC

HAProxy

Nginx

Git

Python

Shell

DevOps

Virtualisation

Cloud

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

Searchability® in Sheffield is seeking a Platform & Infrastructure Senior Engineer to lead the migration from VMware/oVirt to a Kubernetes‑based platform. This on-site role focuses on delivering resilient, production‑grade infrastructure and drives DR/HA planning, monitoring, and automation across storage, networking and cloud services.

The successful candidate will bring deep Kubernetes production experience, Linux administration (CentOS/RHEL) and strong automation skills with Ansible or