(SC cleared) Senior OpenShift Platform Engineer

Methods; West of England, Milton Keynes; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Pension – Salary Exchange Scheme

Private Medical Insurance

Life Assurance

Worldwide Travel Insurance

Enhanced Maternity/Paternity Pay

Travel – season ticket loan

Cycle to work

25 days annual leave

Job summary

Methods seeks an experienced Senior OpenShift Platform Engineer to support and modernise enterprise container platforms in a secure defence environment. The role combines on-premise, hosted, and secure infrastructure with hybrid working in Bristol or Milton Keynes.

You will assess OpenShift environments, resolve platform and runtime issues, enhance automation, and ensure resilience and operational readiness while supporting Java/Tomcat runtimes from a platform perspective.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience administering and supporting Red Hat OpenShift.
• Strong understanding of Kubernetes concepts and operations.
• Experience with Docker and container registries.

Responsibilities

• Assess existing OpenShift environments, images, and deployment processes.
• Diagnose and resolve platform, container, build and runtime issues.
• Improve deployment automation and build processes.
• Remediate security vulnerabilities and technical debt.
• Support monitoring, logging and operational capabilities.

Skills

OpenShift administration

Kubernetes concepts

Linux administration

Root cause analysis

Troubleshooting

Security remediation

Tools

OpenShift

Kubernetes

Docker

Container registries

Job description

We are seeking an experienced Senior OpenShift Platform Engineer to support and modernise enterprise container platforms hosting business-critical applications within a secure defence environment.

This is a hands-on engineering role focused on OpenShift platform support, container management, deployment automation, runtime engineering, vulnerability remediation, monitoring, operational resilience and technical troubleshooting.

The successful candidate will work closely with client and supplier teams to assess existing environments, resolve technical issues, improve operational stability and support future platform evolution. The role is expected to involve a mixture of on-premise, hosted and secure infrastructure environments rather than purely public cloud platforms.

• Salary range of £70k-£80k

• Hybrid; 2days/week onsite in Bristol or Milton Keynes

What you will do

You will:

• Assess existing OpenShift environments, container images, deployment processes and technical dependencies.
• Diagnose and resolve platform, container, build and runtime issues.
• Improve deployment automation and build processes.
• Manage remediation of security vulnerabilities and technical debt.
• Support monitoring, logging and operational support capabilities.
• Improve platform resilience, recoverability and operational readiness.
• Support Java and Tomcat-based application runtimes from a platform perspective.
• Investigate technical incidents and provide specialist engineering support.
• Produce operational documentation, runbooks and technical guidance.
• Transfer knowledge to client technical teams and contribute to future roadmaps.
• Strong hands‑on experience administering and supporting Red Hat OpenShift.
• Strong understanding of Kubernetes concepts and operations.
• Experience with container technologies including Docker, container images and container registries.
• Experience supporting production application platforms and resolving complex technical issues.
• Experience with build pipelines, deployment tooling and release processes.
• Strong Linux administration experience, preferably RHEL‑based environments.
• Experience with monitoring, logging and operational support tooling.
• Experience identifying and remediating platform and container vulnerabilities.
• Strong troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills.
• Experience producing operational and technical documentation.
• Ability to work effectively within secure and regulated environments.

Desirable Experience:

• Java application hosting environments.
• Apache Tomcat.
• Red Hat JBoss Web Server (JWS).
• Container platform modernisation programmes.
• Runtime upgrades and dependency remediation.
• Infrastructure automation and configuration management.
• Defence, aerospace, government or other highly regulated sectors.
• Experience operating within Security Cleared environments.

Personal Attributes

• Self‑sufficient and capable of working with minimal supervision.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement abilities.
• Comfortable working across operational support and engineering improvement activities.
• Focused on quality, resilience and continuous improvement.
• Able to operate effectively within complex technical and security‑constrained environments.

Methods is passionate about its people; we want our colleagues to develop the things they are good at and enjoy.

By joining us you can expect

• Autonomy to develop and grow your skills and experience.
• Be part of exciting project work that is making a difference in society.
• Strong, inspiring and thought‑provoking leadership.
• A supportive and collaborative environment.

Development– access to LinkedIn Learning, a management development programme, and training

Wellness– 24/7 confidential employee assistance programme

Flexible Working– including home working and part time

Social– office parties, breakfast Tuesdays, monthly pizza Thursdays, Thirsty Thursdays, and commitment to charitable causes

Time Off– 25 days of annual leave a year, plus bank holidays, with the option to buy 5 extra days each year

Volunteering– 2 paid days per year to volunteer in our local communities or within a charity organisation

Pension– Salary Exchange Scheme with 4% employer contribution and 5% employee contribution

Life Assurance– of 4 times base salary

Private Medical Insurance– which is non‑contributory (spouse and dependants included)

Worldwide Travel Insurance– which is non‑contributory (spouse and dependants included)

Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Pay

Travel– season ticket loan, cycle to work scheme