About the role:

We’re looking for an experienced OpenShift/Kubernetes Engineer to join a focused platform team that designs, builds, and operates OpenShift clusters in a highly secure disconnected environment. You’ll own reliability, automation, and security end‑to‑end—partnering with squads to onboard applications, harden the platform, and scale our container infrastructure for regulated workloads.

Responsibilities:

Operate and maintain OpenShift clusters to ensure availability, scalability, and performance (including patching, upgrades, and capacity planning).
Automate cluster installation and configuration using GitOps, Ansible, Helm, and Operators; codify repeatable workflows and golden patterns.
Implement platform security best practices and compliance controls; run vulnerability assessments and remediation in line with organizational policies
Contribute to new cluster and network design, including multi‑tenant patterns and service connectivity.
Support onboarding of new client applications and provide ongoing platform guidance and troubleshooting.
Build and maintain clear, living documentation for operations runbooks, standards, and reference architectures.
Deliver within Agile/Scrum ceremonies; collaborate closely with developers, SREs, and security.
Work effectively in highly secure, disconnected environments, including image and content mirroring.
Provide 24/7 on‑call support as part of a rotating team shift schedule, including occasional weekend coverage

Required experience & skills:

Experience: a few years running OpenShift clusters in production, ideally in banking or similarly regulated environments.
Core OpenShift skills: cluster installation, upgrades, patching, and Operator lifecycle management.
Networking: Understanding of Kubernetes/OpenShift networking concepts, including NetworkPolicies and traffic controls..
Automation: Strong working knowledge of Helm and Ansible, with experience applying GitOps principles to manage configuration and lifecycle operations.
Disconnected operations: Experience operating in restricted environments, including content and image mirroring (e.g. oc‑mirror).
Everyday tooling: Comfortable with git, YAML, oc/kubectl, bash, and Visual Studio Code.

Nice to have / Plus skills

Observability: Working knowledge of Prometheus and Grafana for monitoring, alerting, and operational troubleshooting.
Service Mesh: Red Hat Service Mesh (Istio) fundamentals and operations.
Container tooling: such as Podman and Skopeo for build, debug, and image management.
Infrastructure as Code beyond core automation (e.g. Terraform).
CI/CD: Working with pipelines (Azure DevOps).
Experience in working as a power user or system administrator.
Some basic knowledge in virtualization and HCI: VMware, Nutanix/AHV.
Observability & ITOM: Splunk; ServiceNow and IBM Netcool/Omnibus.
Artifact management: JFrog Artifactory.

How you work

Pragmatic SRE mindset with a bias to automate, document, and standardize.
Comfortable pairing with developers and security to meet compliance without slowing down delivery.
Thrives in Agile/Scrum, communicates clearly, and owns outcomes end‑to‑end.

Please note that this is a permanent position, and we do not offer freelance/contract arrangement for the role.

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About Us

Why join us

Embark on your new adventure at Euroclear, and work at the heart of the global capital markets. We connect over 2,000 financial institutions across the globe. As an open and resilient infrastructure, we contribute to the stability of the financial markets. We help clients cut through complexity, lower costs, and mitigate risks of financial transactions. At Euroclear, we have the clear ambition to use our key role to facilitate and accelerate a sustainable global financial system.

What We Offer:

Work closely with inspiring, supportive and engaged colleagues from more than 80 different countries.
Practice your talents in a highly professional international environment.
Join a learning and development environment with an emphasis on knowledge sharing and training.
Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits.

Ways of working

Find your own optimal balance within our hybrid working model, where you can connect at the office 8 days a month and also benefit from remote working.

Great Place to Work for All

We are committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates diversity and strives to be a Great Place to Work for All. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment, regardless of any aspect that makes them unique (including race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, pregnancy, disability, ...). If you need any specific accommodation due to disability or any other reason, you can let the recruiter know during your application process. Our values guide how we work together and shape our future: Our mission and values - Euroclear

About the Team

Group Technology Services (GTS) plans, builds and runs the global infrastructure of Euroclear, and is additionally responsible for the IT service management to the operating entities of the various Group markets. Group Technology Services operates its IT systems and IT services in such a way that, at an appropriate and benchmarked cost level, it can deliver the agreed levels of service to support the requirements of the business processes, for both normal operations and during disaster recovery.