Senior OpenShift Platform Lead for Large-Scale Ops

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 a Senior OpenShift Platform Operations Lead to own the operational performance, resilience and security of our OpenShift estate. You will shape strategy and set standards across multiple platform environments in collaboration with Platform Engineering, SRE, Security and Service Management teams.

You will drive incidents, upgrades and lifecycle governance, while enhancing monitoring and observability for proactive management.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience operating large-scale OpenShift or Kubernetes platforms in production environments.
• Experience leading platform operations, incident management and service recovery across complex environments.
• Strong understanding of operational security controls, including RBAC, certificates and audits.

Responsibilities

• Lead operational outcomes across the OpenShift platform estate, ensuring security, resilience and compliance.
• Define and embed operational standards, runbooks and governance for incident management and lifecycle activities.
• Provide leadership during major incidents, coordinate teams and drive root cause analysis and improvements.
• Oversee platform upgrades, patching and lifecycle management with risk and security controls.
• Improve monitoring, observability and telemetry for proactive platform management.
• Collaborate with Platform Engineering to ensure new capabilities are production-ready and well documented.
• Coach and mentor colleagues to raise operational standards across the team.
• Participate in a structured on-call rota to support 24/7 service.

Skills

OpenShift Operations

Incident management

SRE

Monitoring & observability

Stakeholder management

Hybrid cloud

Tools

Red Hat OpenShift

Kubernetes

Job description

Lloyds Banking Group is seeking a Senior OpenShift Platform Operations Lead to own the operational performance, resilience and security of our OpenShift estate. You will shape strategy and set standards across multiple platform environments in collaboration with Platform Engineering, SRE, Security and Service Management teams.

You will drive incidents, upgrades and lifecycle governance, while enhancing monitoring and observability for proactive management.