OpenShift Senior Engineer (Kubernetes/OpenShift)

Lloyds Banking Group; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension contribution up to 15%

Annual performance-related bonus

Share schemes

Wellbeing initiatives

Parental leave policies

Job summary

Lloyds Banking Group is seeking a technical leader to shape the future OpenShift and Private Cloud platform. You will set technical direction, lead high-impact engineering initiatives, and drive resilience, security and regulatory compliance across squads.

You’ll enable AI, data-driven workloads and serverless patterns while maintaining control and operability. The role combines hands-on engineering with strategic architecture and governance.

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 track record setting architectural direction and engineering standards across multiple teams.
• Strong systems thinking and ability to assess complex distributed platforms and long-term trade-offs.
• Expertise in secure-by-design and resilience engineering in regulated, high-availability environments.

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.
• Own complex multi-squad initiatives, manage dependencies, operational readiness and safe implementation.
• Coach senior engineers in system design, decision-making and architectural thinking, across governance and vendor engagements.
• Represent the platform in design reviews and ensure alignment with business goals and risk considerations.

Skills

OpenShift platform design

Cloud architecture

Leadership

Security & compliance

Agile delivery

Tools

OpenShift

Kubernetes

Jira

CI/CD

Job description

LOCATION(S):

Manchester, Leeds, or Edinburgh

HOURS:

Full-time - 35 hours per week (There is an on-call requirement)

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

This is a technical leadership role shaping the future of the OpenShift and Private Cloud platform at Lloyds Banking Group. You'll lead high-impact engineering initiatives across squads and stakeholders, with accountability for outcomes critical to resilience, security, regulatory compliance and customer experience.

You’ll set the technical direction and engineering standards for OpenShift at scale, balancing enterprise controls with modern cloud-native practices.

You’ll also enable AI, data-intensive, serverless and event-driven workloads safely and consistently, accelerating application teams without compromising control or operability.

You’ll create impact by:

Shaping platform strategy and architectural guardrails

Aligning Engineering, Security, Architecture and Operations

Leading complex decisions and outcomes across multiple teams

Raising engineering capability through coaching and influence

What you'll be doing

You’ll focus on platform-wide outcomes, strategic design and enabling delivery through others, while remaining hands-on where it matters.

Strategy, architecture and innovation

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.

Delivery, resilience and security

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.

Leadership and influence

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.

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?

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.

And any experience of these would be great

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.

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

30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top

A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies