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Infinity Quest

OpenShift Site Reliability Engineer

Hybrid

Sheffield, United kingdom

Freelance

28-01-2026

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Skills

Communication Python Ruby Go GitLab CI/CD Docker Kubernetes Monitoring Configuration Management Jenkins Ansible Problem-solving Active Listening Networking Coaching Architecture Linux Redhat Windows Virtualization Shell Gitlab CI OpenShift Terraform Prometheus Grafana Microservices

Job Specifications

Primary job responsibilities

We are seeking a skilled OpenShift Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our team. In this role, you will be responsible for ensuring the reliability, availability, and performance of our OpenShift-based Virtual/container platforms and services with a focus on automation. Work and collaborate across teams, such as Applications, Hardware, and Network. Develop secure service architecture using cloud-native technologies Develop systems, primarily in Shell scripting, YAML, Ruby, Python and Go language, to prevent outages through automatic scanning and remediation Establish and enforce SRE best practices through platform constraints and high-fidelity system modeling Participate in an on-call rotation.

Required skills

1. Hands-on experience with OpenShift virtualization and Kubernetes administration.

2. Understanding of distributed systems and common distributed system failure domains Experience managing a production service with RedHat, Windows and ESXi.

3. Strong knowledge of Linux systems and networking.

4. Experience with monitoring, logging, alerting & Observability tools (e.g., Otel, Prometheus, Grafana, Slunk etc.).

5. Proficiency in scripting languages Python, Shell, Go Lang, Terraform etc.

6. Familiarity with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI).

7. Understanding of containerization (Docker) and microservices architecture.

8. Ansible – Configuration Management and Deployment.

9. Good problem-solving and communication skills.

Soft Skills:

10. Has experience and affinity to improve team performance

11. Active listening skills

12. Mindsets and Behaviors/Self-mastery

13. Proven experience in Compute, OpenShift, Kubernetes, Hypervisors, Storage, Windows, Networks and Linux

14. Work with industry groups and vendors outside of the Client to establish and maintain their involvement and influence.

15. Accountability for the control and compliance of the engineering process.

16. Promote innovation and adoption of cutting-edge specialist technologies and practices with the domain.

17. Promote development of engineers through coaching, and mentoring.

18. Consult as required in other areas to assist and provide a different perspective to programmed or projects that require it.

About the Company

Infinity Quest (IQ) with its roots from Staffing and Recruitment provides world class business solutions to our valued customers. We specialise in Professional Services, SAP, Salesforce and RPA. Our team of experts understand the challenges you face every day and provide simple technology driven solutions to your complex problems. We have over 15 years experience within the professional services & technology services industry and have catered to wide variety of clientele from SMEs to global corporations. At IQ we are dedicat... Know more