Senior OpenShift Platform Lead (Kubernetes) - Hybrid UK

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

Benefits offered by this job

Generous pension contribution

Annual bonus

Share schemes

Discounted shopping

30 days holiday

Wellbeing initiatives

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, set standards and drive best practice across multi-cluster environments.

You will lead the runbooks, incident response, upgrades and governance, partnering with Platform Engineering, SRE and Security teams to ensure stable, secure and scalable services for millions of customers.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience operating large-scale OpenShift or Kubernetes platforms in production environments.
• Experience leading platform operations, incident management and service recovery.
• Solid understanding of operational security controls, including RBAC, certificates, secrets management, authentication and audit requirements.
• Experience managing platform upgrades, change governance and lifecycle activities in regulated environments.
• Strong stakeholder management skills across Engineering, SRE, Operations and Security.

Responsibilities

• Leading operational outcomes across our OpenShift platform estate, ensuring services remain secure, resilient, compliant and fully supported.
• Defining and embedding operational standards, runbooks and governance across incident management, change execution, access controls and platform lifecycle activities.
• Providing leadership during major incidents, coordinating technical teams and driving effective root cause analysis and long-term improvements.
• Overseeing platform upgrades, patching and lifecycle management, ensuring changes are delivered safely and in line with risk and security requirements.
• Driving improvements in monitoring, observability and operational telemetry to enable proactive platform management.
• Partnering with Platform Engineering teams to ensure new capabilities are operationally ready and supported by appropriate controls and documentation.
• Coaching and mentoring colleagues, helping to raise operational standards and develop platform operations capability across the team.
• Participating in a structured on-call rota, providing support outside normal working hours as part of a shared 24/7 service model.

Skills

Platform operations leadership

Incident management

Security controls

Stakeholder management

RBAC & secrets management

Tools

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, set standards and drive best practice across multi-cluster environments.

You will lead the runbooks, incident response, upgrades and governance, partnering with Platform Engineering, SRE and Security teams to ensure stable, secure and scalable services for millions of customers.