Hybrid OpenShift Administrator – Lifecycle, Platform Operations

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About the role

  • Senior OpenShift Administrator overseeing lifecycle management and stability of OpenShift clusters. Working on upgrades, monitoring, and DevOps collaboration in an enterprise environment.

Responsibilities

  • Manage full lifecycle of OpenShift clusters (OCP 4.x)
  • Perform upgrades, patching, and vulnerability remediation
  • Execute operational runbooks: node maintenance, certificate rotation, platform add-on management
  • Conduct platform health checks and preventative maintenance
  • Operate monitoring using Prometheus, Grafana, and/or ELK
  • Build dashboards, tune alerts, and proactively resolve issues
  • Troubleshoot workloads and cluster services to ensure availability
  • Support capacity planning and performance optimisation
  • Provide L2/L3 platform support for incidents
  • Conduct root cause analysis and lead service restoration
  • Contribute to post-incident reviews and runbook improvements
  • Manage platform networking, storage, and security configurations
  • Implement RBAC, namespace governance, and security policies
  • Support audit and compliance evidence for regulated environments
  • Develop automation using Terraform, Ansible, or similar
  • Standardise cluster provisioning and operational workflows
  • Integrate automation into CI/CD pipelines
  • Collaborate with DevOps, infrastructure, and engineering teams to support platform adoption
  • Produce clear operational documentation, runbooks, and troubleshooting guides

Requirements

  • Hands-on experience administering OpenShift / OCP 4.x , including cluster operations, upgrades, patching, and troubleshooting
  • Experience running OpenShift in on-premise and/or hybrid environments
  • Knowledge of container platform networking, storage, and security
  • Observability experience with Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK
  • Infrastructure as Code experience (Terraform, Ansible, or similar)
  • Comfortable working in large enterprise environments with structured operational processes
  • Nice to Have
  • Experience in regulated or highly controlled environments
  • Broader DevOps platform engineering experience
  • CI/CD integration of container platforms

Job title

OpenShift Administrator – Lifecycle, Platform Operations

Job type

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

£550 per day

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

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