Red Hat OpenShift Platform Associate Manager

Accenture UK & Ireland; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture UK & Ireland seeks an experienced Red Hat OpenShift Platform Associate Manager to lead enterprise OpenShift environments across on-prem and hybrid infrastructure.

You will drive platform engineering, automation, and secure, scalable workloads with strong governance and collaboration with architects, delivery teams and operations.

Qualifications

• Experience engineering and operating Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform in enterprise environments.
• Strong understanding of Kubernetes administration, including scheduling, networking, storage, security and lifecycle management.
• Proficient Linux/Red Hat Enterprise Linux administration and troubleshooting.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform and Ansible for IaC/automation.
• Experience implementing GitOps and CI/CD for platform engineering with Argo CD, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Tekton or Azure DevOps.
• Knowledge of platform security (RBAC, network segmentation, secret management, vulnerability management).

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and continuously improve OpenShift environments across on-premises and hybrid infra.
• Own OpenShift lifecycle activities: installation, configuration, patching, upgrades, capacity and health.
• Develop infrastructure as code and automation to standardize platform operations.
• Implement GitOps-based deployment patterns and CI/CD tooling.
• Ensure secure platform capabilities including RBAC, network policies, secrets, and certificate management.
• Support and optimise core OpenShift services such as networking, storage, registries, ingress and service mesh.
• Apply site reliability engineering principles to improve availability and performance.
• Lead incident diagnosis and root-cause analysis, implementing preventive actions.
• Produce technical documentation and reusable platform patterns.
• Provide technical guidance to engineers adopting OpenShift and cloud-native practices.

Skills

OpenShift

Kubernetes

Linux admin

IaC automation

GitOps

Security by design

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Argo CD

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Tekton

Azure DevOps

Job description

We are seeking an experienced Red Hat OpenShift Platform Associate Manager to join our Digital Core team and contribute to large-scale transformation initiatives across enterprise technology platforms. Digital Core focuses on the technology foundations that enable organisations to adapt and reinvent, bringing together modern digital platforms, cloud-first infrastructure, data and AI capabilities, and security by design. In this role, you will help engineer and evolve secure, resilient and scalable OpenShift platforms that underpin critical enterprise workloads.

Responsibilities:

As a Red Hat OpenShift Platform Associate Manager, you will be responsible for engineering, evolving and supporting enterprise-grade OpenShift Container Platform environments. You will work across platform build, automation, lifecycle management, security, reliability and operational readiness, helping to provide a secure and resilient container platform for critical workloads.

Your day-to-day activities will include hands-on platform engineering, troubleshooting and automation, working with architects, infrastructure teams, application teams and operations to deliver consistent platform services. You will contribute technical expertise to platform design decisions, lead complex engineering activities within your area, and help establish standards and reusable patterns for OpenShift adoption.

Key Responsibilities Include:

• Design, build, configure and continuously improve Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform environments across enterprise on-premises and hybrid infrastructure.
• Own and execute OpenShift platform lifecycle activities including installation, configuration, patching, upgrades, capacity management and cluster health management.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code and platform automation using tools such as Terraform and Ansible, with a focus on repeatability, standardisation and reduced manual effort.
• Implement and support GitOps-based platform and application deployment patterns using technologies such as Argo CD and enterprise CI/CD tooling.
• Engineer secure platform capabilities including RBAC, network policies, secrets and certificate management, image security, policy enforcement and integration with enterprise identity and security services.
• Support and optimise core OpenShift services and ecosystem components such as cluster networking, storage, registries, ingress, operators and service mesh.
• Apply Site Reliability Engineering principles to improve availability, resilience, observability, performance and operational supportability of the platform.
• Implement and enhance monitoring, logging and alerting, and use platform telemetry to identify risks, bottlenecks and opportunities for improvement.
• Lead diagnosis and resolution of complex platform incidents and recurring problems, including root-cause analysis and implementation of preventative actions.
• Work closely with Red Hat and other technology vendors where required to resolve product issues and support platform roadmap decisions.
• Produce and maintain technical documentation, engineering standards, operational runbooks and reusable platform patterns.
• Provide technical guidance to engineers and delivery teams adopting OpenShift, sharing knowledge and promoting strong cloud-native, DevSecOps and platform engineering practices.

Skills & Experience:

• Strong hands-on experience engineering and operating Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform in production enterprise environments.
• Deep understanding of Kubernetes administration and container platform concepts, including scheduling, networking, storage, security, operators and cluster lifecycle management.
• Strong Linux / Red Hat Enterprise Linux administration and troubleshooting capability.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code and automation, particularly Terraform and Ansible.
• Practical experience implementing GitOps and CI/CD approaches for platform engineering, with tools such as Argo CD, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Tekton or Azure DevOps.
• Strong understanding of platform security, including RBAC, network segmentation, certificate management, secrets, vulnerability management and secure container supply chains.
• Experience with observability and operational tooling for container platforms, including monitoring, logging, alerting and performance analysis.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across the OpenShift stack, with the ability to diagnose complex issues spanning platform, network, storage, security and application integration.
• Experience working within large enterprise environments where availability, resilience, auditability and controlled change are important.
• Strong communication and stakeholder skills, with the ability to explain technical issues clearly and work effectively across engineering, architecture and operations teams.

Preferred Experience:

• Experience deploying or operating OpenShift on bare-metal or virtualised on-premises infrastructure.
• Experience with Red Hat platform technologies such as Advanced Cluster Management (RHACM), Advanced Cluster Security (RHACS), OpenShift Data Foundation (ODF), Quay, Service Mesh, Keycloak or Satellite.
• Experience supporting highly available, multi-cluster or disaster-recovery OpenShift architectures.
• Exposure to public cloud and hybrid platform services, particularly Azure and/or AWS.
• Experience in financial services, critical national infrastructure or another highly regulated environment.
• Experience coaching other engineers, leading technical workstreams or acting as a subject matter expert within a platform engineering team.

Preferred Certifications:

• Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration.
• Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) or relevant Red Hat automation certification.
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA).
• HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate or equivalent infrastructure automation certification.