End Date
Friday 28 August 2026
Salary Range
£72,702 - £80,780
We support flexible working – click here for more information on flexible working options
Flexible Working Options
Hybrid Working, Job Share
Job Description Summary
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Job Description
Senior OpenShift Platform Operations Lead (Kubernetes/OpenShift)
Salary: £72,702 - £80,780
Location(s): Manchester, Leeds or Edinburgh
Hours: Full-time, 35 hours per week
Working Pattern : Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our Manchester, Leeds, or Edin burgh office sites. Colleagues with disabilities can be supported with workplace adjustments including hybrid working expectations in line with our Flexibility Works policy.
Are you passionate about running large-scale container platforms that power critical services used by millions of customers?
We're looking for a Senior OpenShift Platform Operations Lead to take ownership of the operational performance, resilience and security of our OpenShift estate. This is a senior leadership role where you'll shape operational strategy, set standards and drive best practice across multiple platform environments.
Working closely with Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Security and Service Management teams, you'll help ensure our OpenShift platforms remain stable, secure and ready to support business-critical customer services. You'll influence technical direction, improve operational maturity and lead responses to complex incidents, helping us deliver reliable services at scale.
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.
We're investing heavily in technology, data and engineering capabilities as we continue our transformation journey. This is your opportunity to work with modern cloud-native technologies at enterprise scale, helping shape the future of platform operations within one of the UK's largest financial services organisations.
You'll be part of a collaborative environment where you'll influence platform strategy, solve complex challenges and help deliver reliable services for millions of customers.
Solid understanding of operational security controls, including RBAC, certificates, secrets management, authentication and audit requirements.
Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and align Engineering, SRE, Operations and Security teams.
And any experience of these would be great
Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion, supporting our customers, colleagues and communities. We're committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.
We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and launch a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.
We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. As a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role and have a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition, through the Disability Confident Scheme.
We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers - just let us know what you need.
We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes
Ready for a career where you'll learn and thrive?
At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.
We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.
We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.
