We’re recruiting for a Principal Platform Architect to take ownership of the architecture and evolution of large-scale Red Hat OpenShift platforms supporting business-critical services within complex enterprise environments.
This isn’t a hands-on engineering role. It’s an opportunity to define platform strategy, influence technical direction, and ensure enterprise OpenShift platforms remain secure, resilient and scalable as they continue to evolve.
What we’re looking for
- Commercial OpenShift platform architecture (essential)
- Enterprise Kubernetes platform architecture and platform lifecycle management
- Designing, evolving and governing production container platforms
- Platform engineering, microservices and cloud-native technologies
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), CI/CD and automation
- Hybrid cloud and/or on-premise platform environments
- High availability, resilience, disaster recovery and platform security
- Working within large enterprise, managed services or regulated environments
Who it suits
This role would suit someone who has moved beyond implementation and enjoys solving platform-wide challenges, setting architectural standards, shaping long-term platform strategy and working closely with engineering teams to evolve enterprise platforms.
Salary and location
- Up to £110,000 plus bonus
- Hybrid – Reading area, 2 days per week on site
- Permanent
Please note: applicants must be Sole UK Nationals and eligible to obtain SC Security Clearance. Active SC is advantageous.
If this sounds like something you’d be interested in, or you’d like to find out more, get in touch for a confidential conversation
