Cloud Platform Engineer - OpenShift Kubernetes

Manchester, Greater Manchester Pcr Digital 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