Cloud Platform Engineer – OpenShift Kubernetes

Location: Manchester, Greater Manchester

Sector: IT

Contract Type: Contract

Salary: £500 - £550 per day + Inside IR35

Contact: Joe James

Contact Email: joe.james@pcrdigital.com

Published: 3 hours ago

Duration: 6 Months

Expiry Date: Tue, Aug 04 2026

Reference: BBBH13144_1784653742

Start Date: ASAP

Cloud Platform Engineer (OpenShift / Kubernetes)

Initially 6 months

Manchester or Knowsley (Hybrid – 2 days onsite / 3 remote)

£550 per day – Inside IR35

PCR Digital is supporting a leading UK technology and communications organisation as they continue a major infrastructure transformation programme.

We’re looking for an experienced Cloud Platform Engineer to join a highly skilled engineering team building a brand-new internal hosting platform based on Red Hat OpenShift. This is an opportunity to play a key role in modernising enterprise infrastructure rather than simply maintaining existing environments.

You’ll work alongside architects, platform engineers and delivery teams to help design, build and scale a next-generation private cloud platform supporting critical business services.

What you’ll be doing

Build and deploy a new enterprise hosting platform based on Red Hat OpenShift.

Support a large-scale infrastructure transformation programme.

Work closely with architects, platform engineers and delivery teams.

Help improve platform scalability, resilience and operational efficiency.

Contribute to infrastructure automation and platform engineering best practices.

Support ongoing platform enhancements as the environment continues to evolve.

Essential Skills

Red Hat OpenShift

Kubernetes

Platform Engineering

Infrastructure Engineering

Enterprise infrastructure deployments

Desirable Experience

Ansible

Infrastructure automation

Enterprise networking

Bare metal infrastructure

Private cloud environments

Large-scale infrastructure transformation projects

We’re looking for someone who:

Has strong hands-on platform engineering experience.

Can quickly get up to speed and become productive within an established engineering team.

Enjoys solving complex infrastructure challenges.

Has worked within enterprise-scale environments.

Is comfortable working in fast-moving delivery teams.

About PCR Digital

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