Openshift Platform Lead (Virtualization Services) - Sheffield (Hybrid) - IR35

Title: OpenShift Platform Lead - Virtualization Services
Location: Sheffield/Hybrid (2-3 days onsite mandatory)
Duration: 6-12 Month Contract + Extension

Inside IR35

Additional information:

• Some evening/weekend work required for maintenance windows
• Available 24 x7 during major issues

We are looking for an experienced OpenShift Platform Lead to own and manage an OpenShift-based virtualization platform delivering enterprise VM hosting services.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role with responsibility for the full platform life cycle, including architecture, BAU operations, patching, upgrades, incident response, platform stability, and VM migration from Legacy infrastructure.

Key responsibilities

• Own the technical strategy and roadmap for the OpenShift Virtualization platform
• Lead platform life cycle management, including installation, upgrades, patching, and decommissioning
• Drive platform stability, performance optimisation, governance, compliance, and security
• Lead major incident response, RCA, and change/release activity
• Deliver IaC and GitOps practices for platform management
• Lead VM migration from Legacy/VMware platforms to OpenShift Virtualization

Essential skills and experience

• 8-12 years of IT infrastructure experience
• 5+ years of hands-on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (4.x)
• 3+ years of OpenShift Virtualization (KubeVirt) or similar VM hosting platform experience
• 3+ years in platform/infrastructure leadership
• 2+ years with RHEL and Red Hat CoreOS (RHCOS)
• Expert OpenShift administration
• Strong Linux, storage, networking, and automation skills
• Experience with platform upgrades, patching, incidents, RCA, change management, capacity planning, and performance tuning
• Experience with Ansible, Bash, Python, Terraform, GitOps, Prometheus, Grafana, and AlertManager
• RHCE, Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration, or equivalent demonstrable experience

Desirable

• RHCA
• OpenShift Virtualization certification
• RHACM, RHACS/Stackrox
• ArgoCD/Flux/Tekton
• Chaos engineering
• Multi-infrastructure OpenShift experience
• CKA/CKS
• Hybrid/multi-cloud and backup tooling experience

Important please read: (Please read before applying)

• This is a hybrid role based in Sheffield, with 2-3 days onsite per week mandatory.
• Some evening or weekend work may be required for maintenance windows and major platform issues.