OpenShift Platform Lead — Senior Engineer

Lloyds Banking Group; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 73,000 - 81,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

A generous pension contribution up to

Annual performance-related bonus

Share schemes (free shares)

Job summary

Lloyds Banking Group is seeking an OpenShift Senior Engineer to lead the OpenShift and Private Cloud platform strategy. You will set technical direction, govern architectural decisions, and drive high-impact engineering across squads to improve resilience, security and customer experience.

You will enable AI, data-intensive workloads and serverless patterns in a hybrid cloud environment, balancing enterprise controls with modern cloud-native practices.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing, building and operating OpenShift or Kubernetes platforms at scale.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Lead high-impact engineering initiatives across squads and stakeholders.
• Set technical direction and engineering standards for OpenShift at scale.
• Enable AI, data-intensive, serverless and event-driven workloads safely and consistently.
• Own complex multi-squad initiatives, managing dependencies and operational readiness.
• Balance delivery with platform health, technical debt and cost efficiency.
• Provide senior technical leadership during major incidents and drive preventative improvements.
• Coach senior engineers in system design and architectural thinking.

Skills

Technical leadership

Architectural direction

Jira/Agile

Tools

OpenShift

Kubernetes

Hybrid cloud

Job description

Lloyds Banking Group is seeking an OpenShift Senior Engineer to lead the OpenShift and Private Cloud platform strategy. You will set technical direction, govern architectural decisions, and drive high-impact engineering across squads to improve resilience, security and customer experience.

You will enable AI, data-intensive workloads and serverless patterns in a hybrid cloud environment, balancing enterprise controls with modern cloud-native practices.