Senior OpenShift Platform Lead — Scale & Secure Cloud Ops

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

Benefits offered by this job

Generous pension up to 15%

Annual performance bonus

Share schemes including free shares

Wellbeing initiatives

30 days holiday + bank holidays

Parental leave policies

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. This senior role shapes standards and drives best practice across multi-cluster environments.

You will partner with Platform Engineering, SRE, Security and Service Management to deliver reliable, scalable cloud-native platforms, mentor teams and participate in an on-call rota enabling 24/7 service.

Qualifications

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

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

OpenShift operations

Kubernetes

Platform leadership

Incident management

Security controls

Lifecycle management

Stakeholder management

Tools

OpenShift

Kubernetes

Red Hat support

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. This senior role shapes standards and drives best practice across multi-cluster environments.

You will partner with Platform Engineering, SRE, Security and Service Management to deliver reliable, scalable cloud-native platforms, mentor teams and participate in an on-call rota enabling 24/7 service.