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Salary: £38,000 - 78,000 per year
Requirements: Commercial Red Hat OpenShift platform architecture experience is essentialEnterprise Kubernetes platform architecture and platform lifecycle management experienceExperience designing, evolving and governing production container platformsExperience in platform engineering, microservices and cloud-native technologiesExperience with Infrastructure as Code, including Terraform, CI/CD and automationExperience in hybrid cloud and/or on-premise platform environmentsExperience with high availability, resilience, disaster recovery and platform securityExperience working within large enterprise, managed services or regulated environmentsWe require applicants to be Sole UK Nationals and eligible to obtain SC Security Clearance; active SC is advantageous Responsibilities: We will expect you to take ownership of the architecture and evolution of large-scale Red Hat OpenShift platforms supporting business-critical servicesWe will rely on you to define platform strategy and influence technical directionWe will need you to ensure our enterprise OpenShift platforms remain secure, resilient and scalable as they evolveWe will look to you to solve platform-wide challenges and set architectural standardsWe will expect you to shape long-term platform strategyWe will want you to work closely with engineering teams to evolve our enterprise platforms Technologies: ArchitectCI/CDCloudKubernetesOpenShiftSecurityTerraformmicroservices More:
We are recruiting for a Principal Platform Architect to join us in a hybrid role based in the Reading area, with two days per week on site. This is a senior architecture opportunity with a salary of up to £110,000 plus bonus. The role focuses on defining the strategy and governance for large-scale Red Hat OpenShift platforms within complex enterprise environments, rather than hands-on engineering.
last updated 33 week of 2026