Senior OpenShift Platform Operations Lead

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

Benefits offered by this job

Up to 15% pension contribution

Annual performance-related bonus

Share schemes including free shares

30 days holiday + bank holidays

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, in a senior leadership capacity. The role collaborates with Platform Engineering, SRE, Security and Service Management to ensure stability and readiness for business-critical services.

Based in the UK, this hybrid role involves coordinating across multiple platform environments, leading incidents, and shaping operational strategy and

Qualifications

• Extensive experience operating large-scale OpenShift or Kubernetes platforms in production.
• Experience leading platform operations, incident management and service recovery across complex tech environments.
• Solid 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

Kubernetes

Incident management

Platform operations

RBAC

Secrets management

Security controls

Stakeholder management

Vendor management

Change governance

Tools

Red Hat OpenShift

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, in a senior leadership capacity. The role collaborates with Platform Engineering, SRE, Security and Service Management to ensure stability and readiness for business-critical services.

Based in the UK, this hybrid role involves coordinating across multiple platform environments, leading incidents, and shaping operational strategy and