OpenShift SRE - Enterprise Kubernetes Platform Engineer

HCL Technologies Limited; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Up to 20 days vacation

Term life insurance

Business Travel insurance

Job summary

HCL Technologies Limited in Glasgow is seeking a Private Cloud Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with OpenShift to ensure reliability, security, and performance of a large-scale Kubernetes platform.

You will work across global teams in a follow-the-sun model, drive automation, incident response, platform upgrades, and observability improvements to enhance customer experience.

Hybrid work with 3 onsite days helps collaboration while enabling flexibility; attractive compensation and benefits included.

Qualifications

• 3–7 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, DevOps, Systems Engineering, or Infrastructure Operations.
• Hands-on experience operating and supporting Red Hat OpenShift or enterprise Kubernetes platforms in production environments.
• Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting skills.
• Deep understanding of Kubernetes architecture, container orchestration, networking, scheduling, storage, and cluster lifecycle management.
• Experience implementing GitOps practices using Flux for Kubernetes configuration and deployment management.
• Experience with observability and monitoring platforms including Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki, with the ability to build dashboards, alerts, and operational insights.
• Knowledge of HashiCorp Vault and enterprise secrets-management patterns within Kubernetes environments.
• Strong knowledge of networking concepts and protocols, including TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, load balancing, and ingress technologies.
• Experience managing CVEs, security advisories, patching, and platform remediation activities.
• Experience with container image inspection, vulnerability analysis, and supply-chain security tooling such as Skopeo.
• Experience developing automation using Python, Go, Bash, or similar scripting languages.
• Understanding of SRE principles, including reliability, observability, automation, incident management, capacity planning, and continuous improvement.
• Strong communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills in a globally distributed engineering environment.

Responsibilities

• Own the reliability, availability, performance, and operational health of customer's Kubernetes and OpenShift platform.
• Participate in incident response, on-call rotations, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and post-incident improvement initiatives.
• Partner with engineering teams to test, certify, and deploy platform enhancements, component releases, and infrastructure upgrades.
• Drive automation initiatives that reduce operational toil and improve platform scalability, consistency, and resilience.
• Develop and maintain tooling, scripts, dashboards, runbooks, and operational documentation.
• Manage platform lifecycle activities, including cluster upgrades, capacity planning, performance optimization, and production readiness reviews.
• Lead vulnerability management efforts by assessing, prioritizing, and remediating security risks across Kubernetes, OpenShift, operating systems, and supporting platform components.
• Enhance observability through monitoring, metrics, logging, alerting, and reliability engineering best practices.
• Collaborate with global SRE, infrastructure, security, and L2 operations teams to deliver consistent operational support across regions.
• Contribute to strategic platform initiatives focused on reliability, self-service capabilities, modernization, automation, and customer experience.

Skills

SRE experience

Platform engineering

DevOps

Linux administration

Kubernetes architecture

GitOps

Observability

Automation

Python

Tools

OpenShift

Flux

Prometheus

Grafana

Loki

Skopeo

Go

Python

Bash

Job description

HCL Technologies Limited in Glasgow is seeking a Private Cloud Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with OpenShift to ensure reliability, security, and performance of a large-scale Kubernetes platform.

You will work across global teams in a follow-the-sun model, drive automation, incident response, platform upgrades, and observability improvements to enhance customer experience.

Hybrid work with 3 onsite days helps collaboration while enabling flexibility; attractive compensation and benefits included.