Cloud Platform Engineer – OpenShift Kubernetes
PCR Digital · Manchester, ENG, GB
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About the role
- 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: 21 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.
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Skills
- JavaScript
- TypeScript
- Python
- Go
- Rust
- Java
- Kubernetes
- Ansible
- Terraform
- Docker
- Linux
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