About the Role
We are looking for an experienced 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.
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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.
