Summary
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A senior platform engineering role for an autonomous technical expert who designs and optimizes enterprise platforms across cloud, on-premise, and hybrid environments. You will work with OpenShift and Kubernetes, automate operations through DevSecOps, CI/CD and GitOps, advise enterprise customers, mentor engineers, and potentially support pre-sales activities.
Highlights
High-impact individual contributor role combining deep platform engineering with customer ownership and commercial exposure. The position offers autonomy, technical advisory responsibilities, complex enterprise engagements, mentoring opportunities, and potential involvement in pre-sales.
Description
We are looking for an experienced Senior Platform Engineer to design, build and optimise enterprise platforms across cloud, on-premise and hybrid environments.
This is a high-impact individual contributor role for someone who combines deep technical expertise with customer ownership and commercial awareness.
You will operate autonomously, become a trusted technical advisor to customers, support complex engagements and help raise the capability of the wider Platform Engineering team.
You will also have the opportunity to support pre-sales, identify account growth opportunities and mentor junior engineers.
What you'll do:
Design, deploy and optimise platforms across the full technology stack
Own platform life cycle, including availability, scalability, security and performance
Engineer enterprise Red Hat OpenShift / Kubernetes environments
Automate delivery and operations using mature DevSecOps, CI/CD and GitOps practices
Act as the primary technical relationship owner for customer engagements
Resolve complex platform and MKS issues and lead critical incident resolution
Identify continuous improvement, automation and standardisation opportunities
Mentor Platform Engineers and Junior Platform Engineers and review delivery quality
Support sales, solution design, proposals and pricing
Identify up-sell and extension opportunities within existing customer accounts
Manage delivery scope, utilisation and margin to protect commercial outcomes
Travel across the Middle East, Africa and internationally as required.
Requirements
Required experience:
6+ years' hands-on Red Hat OpenShift experience
Strong full-stack capability across at least two of:
OpenShift Platform Plus | Ansible | AWS | Kafka | Observability
Proven experience with multiple Red Hat technologies
Strong CI/CD and GitOps experience: ArgoCD, Flux, GitLab, GitHub Actions or Jenkins
Experience with Prometheus/Grafana and/or Elastic
Proven RHEL administration at scale
Experience managing customers from both a technical and commercial perspective
Experience mentoring and supporting other engineers
Ability to work independently across multiple concurrent customer engagements
Required Certifications:
Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA)
Minimum 3 Red Hat certifications
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
CKAD or CKS advantageous
AWS certification(s) advantageous
Benefits
Work-From-Home Flexibility: Design a remote work schedule tailored to your personal rhythm and productivity style.
Free Red Hat Certifications: Full support for your professional growth with free access to official Red Hat training courses, certification exams (EX380, EX316, etc.), and Udemy resources.
Home Office Budget: Complete financial coverage for gear, high-end monitors, and ergonomic set-ups for your home workspace.
Holistic Support: Free access to therapy via Ollie Health and dedicated personal financial coaching through Verdades Consulting.
Generous PTO: 15 days of annual leave to start, with incremental scaling based on milestone tenure.
Ready to lead enterprise OpenShift solutions at scale? Apply today or message us directly with your profile.
