Senior OpenShift Platform Engineer – Hybrid Defence Tech

Methods Business and Digital Technology; Milton Keynes; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension

Life Assurance

Private Medical Insurance

Worldwide Travel Insurance

Flexible Working

Job summary

Methods Business and Digital Technology is seeking an experienced Senior OpenShift Platform Engineer to support and modernise enterprise container platforms hosting business-critical applications within a secure defence environment.

The role focuses on OpenShift platform support, container management, deployment automation, and vulnerability remediation across on-premise, hosted and regulated infrastructure with a hybrid model and two on-site days per week in Bristol or Milton Keynes.

Qualifications

• Experience administering OpenShift platforms.
• Strong Kubernetes knowledge and container lifecycle management.
• Linux administration in RHEL-based environments.
• Experience with deployment pipelines and release tooling.
• Ability to operate in secure, regulated environments.

Responsibilities

• Assess existing OpenShift environments 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.
• Enhance platform resilience and recoverability.
• Provide specialist engineering support for incidents and root-cause analysis.
• Produce runbooks and technical documentation.
• Transfer knowledge to client teams and contribute to roadmaps.

Skills

OpenShift administration

Kubernetes

Linux

Automation tooling

Security in regulated environments

Tools

Red Hat OpenShift

Docker

Jenkins

Ansible

Job description

Methods Business and Digital Technology is seeking an experienced Senior OpenShift Platform Engineer to support and modernise enterprise container platforms hosting business-critical applications within a secure defence environment.

The role focuses on OpenShift platform support, container management, deployment automation, and vulnerability remediation across on-premise, hosted and regulated infrastructure with a hybrid model and two on-site days per week in Bristol or Milton Keynes.