OpenShift Platform Lead - Hybrid Cloud & Security

Lloyds Bank plc; Greater Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 73,000 - 81,000; Full time

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Hybrid Working

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Job summary

Lloyds Banking Group is seeking an OpenShift Senior Engineer to lead platform design, resilience and security for OpenShift in a hybrid cloud environment. This senior role focuses on shaping platform strategy, directing engineering standards and coordinating across squads to deliver high-impact outcomes.

You will balance enterprise controls with modern cloud-native practices, enabling AI/data workloads safely and accelerating application teams while maintaining control.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing, building and operating OpenShift or Kubernetes platforms at scale in private or hybrid cloud environments.
• Deep knowledge of platform internals, lifecycle management, networking, storage, security controls and integration patterns.
• A proven record of setting architectural direction and engineering standards across multiple teams or platform domains.
• Strong systems thinking and the ability to assess complex distributed platforms and long-term trade-offs.
• Expertise in secure-by-design and resilience engineering within regulated, high-availability environments, including audit, compliance and recovery requirements.
• Experience driving infrastructure automation, standardisation and modernisation through Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD.
• A focus on reliability, reduced operational toil and safe self-service for application teams.
• Experience shaping Agile delivery across squads, using Jira to manage epics, dependencies, progress, risks and constraints.
• The ability to balance strategic change, BAU, risk reduction and innovation across concurrent workstreams.
• Strong leadership through influence and the ability to communicate technical strategy, risk and trade-offs to technical and executive audiences.
• Enabling AI/ML workloads on Kubernetes, including data pipelines, GPU scheduling, model serving and governance.
• Designing Kubernetes-native serverless or event-driven platforms and safe consumption models.
• Applying SRE practices such as error budgets, resilience testing, progressive delivery and platform observability.
• Influencing vendor roadmaps and strategic technical relationships.
• Building engineering communities through mentoring, documentation and technical forums.
• Designing for cost transparency, capacity planning and long-term operational efficiency.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Platform-wide outcomes and strategic design focusing on enabling delivery through others, while remaining hands-on where it matters.
• Set technical direction and architectural guardrails for OpenShift and supporting hybrid cloud services.
• Own complex multi-squad initiatives, balancing delivery with platform health, reliability and cost efficiency.
• Coach senior engineers in system design, decision-making and architectural thinking.

Job description

Lloyds Banking Group is seeking an OpenShift Senior Engineer to lead platform design, resilience and security for OpenShift in a hybrid cloud environment. This senior role focuses on shaping platform strategy, directing engineering standards and coordinating across squads to deliver high-impact outcomes.

You will balance enterprise controls with modern cloud-native practices, enabling AI/data workloads safely and accelerating application teams while maintaining control.