OpenShift Platform Engineer

Corsham
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DV Cleared Senior DevSecOps / OpenShift Platform Engineer - Corsham
Up to £650 per day - Outside IR35
Hybrid - 3 days per week on site

We are supporting a major MOD platform programme seeking an experienced DV Cleared DevSecOps / Platform Engineer to support the engineering and delivery of secure container platforms hosted on Red Hat OpenShift.

This role sits within a high-performing platform engineering team responsible for building, improving, and operating enterprise Kubernetes environments supporting critical defence workloads. Engineers will work across both development and live production environments, supporting platform capability development, workload onboarding, and secure DevSecOps pipeline integration.

This is not a traditional support role. We are specifically looking for engineers who build, engineer, and deploy workloads on the platform - not just operate it.

Key responsibilities

Build, configure, and maintain Red Hat OpenShift platforms

Support application teams onboarding containerised workloads

Contribute to CI/CD and DevSecOps pipeline engineering

Implement platform automation, security integration, and Infrastructure as Code

Support performance, availability, and continuous platform improvement

Key experience required

Strong hands-on experience with OpenShift and Kubernetes

DevOps / DevSecOps or Platform Engineering background

Experience deploying and managing containerised workloads in production

Experience working in secure or regulated environments preferred

Active DV Clearance required

Contract details

Up to £650 per day

Outside IR35

Hybrid working - 3 days per week onsite in Corsham

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