OpenShift Operator (Kubernetes / OpenShift)

Lloyds Bank plc; Manchester; On-site; GBP 49,000 - 54,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous pension contribution

Annual performance bonus

Share schemes (free shares)

Lifestyle benefits (discounted shops)

28 days' holiday + bank holidays

Wellbeing initiatives & parental leave

Job summary

Lloyds Banking Group is seeking an OpenShift Operator to maintain and improve the enterprise OpenShift platform across multiple sites. The role emphasizes secure, compliant operations in a regulated environment with hands-on delivery and incident response.

You will work closely with engineering, security, and infra teams, implementing changes, automating tasks, and building observability to ensure platform stability and reliability.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience operating production OpenShift or Kubernetes platforms.
• Solid technical understanding of cluster architecture, networking, storage, ingress, and operators.
• Experience in incident investigation, change execution, and working within governed environments.

Responsibilities

• Operate OpenShift clusters across environments per platform standards and controls.
• Execute upgrades, patching, and maintenance with validation, rollback, and recovery controls.
• Investigate incidents, perform root cause analysis, and implement permanent fixes.

Skills

OpenShift

Kubernetes

Incident management

Scripting & automation

Observability tools

Problem solving

Agile & Jira

Regulated environments

SRE / reliability

Hybrid / private cloud

Vendor collaboration (Red Hat)

Mentoring & knowledge sharing

Tools

OpenShift

Kubernetes

RBAC & certificates

Automation tooling

Job description

End Date Friday 28 August 2026 Salary Range £48,987 - £54,430 We support flexible working. Flexible Working Options Hybrid Working, Job Share

LOCATION(S):Manchester, Leeds, or Edinburgh HOURS: Full-time - 35 hours per week WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at our Manchester, Leeds, or Edinburgh office sites. Colleagues with disabilities can be supported with workplace adjustments including hybrid working expectations in line with our Flexibility Works policy.

About this opportunity As an OpenShift Operator, you'll play a key role in the operation, support, and continual improvement of the Bank's enterprise OpenShift platform, providing a secure, resilient, and scalable hosting environment for critical business services. Working within a highly regulated environment, you'll be responsible for maintaining platform stability, managing incidents and operational issues, implementing changes, and ensuring services remain available, secure, and compliant. The role is hands-on and delivery-focused, requiring you to troubleshoot complex technical issues, perform platform upgrades and patching activities, manage vulnerabilities, support infrastructure lifecycle activities, and contribute to the introduction of new platform capabilities. You'll work closely with engineering, security, infrastructure, and application teams to ensure solutions are operationally ready, supportable, and aligned to enterprise standards.

What you’ll be doing

• Operate OpenShift clusters across environments in accordance with defined platform standards, controls, and support models
• Execute upgrades, patching, and maintenance activities with appropriate validation, rollback, and recovery controls
• Investigate incidents, perform root cause analysis, and implement permanent fixes to prevent recurrence
• Build and improve automation, scripting, and operational tooling to reduce manual effort and increase consistency
• Implement and maintain observability (monitoring, logging, alerting, dashboards) to support proactive operations
• Operate platform security controls (RBAC, service accounts, certificates, secrets) in line with defined policies
• Maintain and improve operational documentation, including runbooks and procedures

This role includes participation in a structured on-call rota, providing out-of-hours support across evenings and weekends to ensure continuous 24/7 service coverage. Candidates should be comfortable responding to incidents outside standard business hours as part of a shared team rotation.

Why join us?

We’re transforming at pace. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to change the way we meet the needs of our 28 million customers. We’re growing, and we’d love you to be part of the journey.

What we’re looking for?

• Strong hands-on experience operating production OpenShift or Kubernetes platforms
• Solid technical understanding across cluster architecture, networking, storage, ingress, and operators
• Experience in incident investigation, change execution, and working within governed environments
• Ability to automate and standardise operational tasks using scripting or tooling
• Experience with observability tools (logging, monitoring, alerting) and operational data analysis
• Strong problem-solving skills with a focus on identifying root cause and improving reliability
• Effective collaboration and communication in Agile delivery environments
• Experience working in Agile environments, using Jira.
• And any experience of these would be great
• Experience in regulated environments with formal risk and control requirements
• Exposure to SRE or reliability engineering practices
• Experience supporting hybrid or private cloud OpenShift platforms, Kubernetes or VKS environments
• Experience working with vendors such as Red Hat for technical issue resolution
• Passion for mentoring and knowledge sharing

We know that great talent comes from many backgrounds. Whilst this job advert may reference specific years of experience, we recognise that skills are developed in many ways, so if you have relevant, transferable experience, we encourage you to apply. This is a place for you

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we’re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual performance-related bonus
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 28 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Ready for a career where you'll learn and thrive?

At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.

We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.

We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.