Senior Enterprise Migration Lead: VMware to OpenShift

Edison Smart®; South Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Edison Smart® is seeking a Senior Technical Lead to own key technology domains and migration workstreams on a major financial services platform modernisation programme, migrating a global VMware estate to OpenShift. This hands-on delivery role combines deep infrastructure knowledge with delivery leadership, owning outcomes and coordinating across engineering, architecture, operations and programme teams.

You’ll stay hands-on while guiding senior engineers and executives, driving platform

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on experience with large-scale enterprise infrastructure.
• Proven track record leading migration or platform modernisation projects.
• Ability to own delivery outcomes end-to-end.

Responsibilities

• Lead a defined technology domain or migration workstream
• Own technical direction, decisions and delivery outcomes
• Drive migration and platform modernisation activity through to completion
• Identify and remove technical blockers, risks and dependencies
• Stay hands-on while providing technical leadership
• Represent your workstream in governance and technical review forums
• Engage confidently with senior engineers, architects and executive stakeholders

Skills

VMware/vSphere

OpenShift

Kubernetes

Platform engineering

Delivery leadership

Migration expertise

Tools

VMware

OpenShift

Kubernetes

Job description

Edison Smart® is seeking a Senior Technical Lead to own key technology domains and migration workstreams on a major financial services platform modernisation programme, migrating a global VMware estate to OpenShift. This hands-on delivery role combines deep infrastructure knowledge with delivery leadership, owning outcomes and coordinating across engineering, architecture, operations and programme teams.

You’ll stay hands-on while guiding senior engineers and executives, driving platform