OpenShift Platform Lead - Hybrid Cloud & Security

Lloyds Banking Group; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 73,000 - 81,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension up to 15%

Annual bonus

Share schemes

Discounts

30 days holiday

Wellbeing & parental leave

Job summary

Lloyds Banking Group is seeking an OpenShift Senior Engineer to shape and lead the OpenShift and Private Cloud platform. You will steer high-impact engineering initiatives, set technical direction, and ensure resilience, security and regulatory compliance across squads.

In this hybrid role, you’ll combine hands-on delivery with architectural leadership, coaching engineers, aligning cross-functional teams, and driving platform standards across the enterprise.

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.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction and architectural guardrails for OpenShift and supporting hybrid cloud services.
• Lead high-impact design decisions covering resilience, security, scalability, compliance and sustainability.
• Evaluate emerging capabilities, vendor roadmaps and proofs of concept, turning them into practical adoption plans.
• Own complex multi-squad initiatives, managing dependencies, operational readiness and safe implementation.
• Balance immediate delivery with platform health, technical debt, reliability and cost efficiency.
• Provide senior technical leadership during major incidents and drive preventative improvements.
• Ensure designs meet the security, audit, availability and recovery requirements of a tier-one financial institution.
• Coach senior and lead engineers in system design, decision-making and architectural thinking.
• Represent the platform in governance, design reviews and vendor engagements.
• Build alignment through clear communication and sound technical judgement.

Skills

OpenShift

Kubernetes

Platform design

Security controls

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

Jira

Tools

Jira

Job description

Lloyds Banking Group is seeking an OpenShift Senior Engineer to shape and lead the OpenShift and Private Cloud platform. You will steer high-impact engineering initiatives, set technical direction, and ensure resilience, security and regulatory compliance across squads.

In this hybrid role, you’ll combine hands-on delivery with architectural leadership, coaching engineers, aligning cross-functional teams, and driving platform standards across the enterprise.