End Date
Friday 28 August 2026
Salary Range
£48,987 - £54,430
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
JOB TITLE: OpenShift Operator (Kubernetes / OpenShift)
SALARY: £48,987 – £54,430
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 our Manchester, Leeds, or Edinburgh office sites. Colleagues with disabilities can be supported with workplace adjustments including hybrid working expectations in line with our Flexibility Works policy.
As an OpenShift Operator, you’ll play a key role in the operation, support, and continual improvement of the Bank’s enterprise OpenShift platform, providing a secure, resilient, and scalable hosting environment for critical business services. Working within a highly regulated environment, you’ll be responsible for maintaining platform stability, managing incidents and operational issues, implementing changes, and ensuring services remain available, secure, and compliant.
The role is hands-on and delivery-focused, requiring you to troubleshoot complex technical issues, perform platform upgrades and patching activities, manage vulnerabilities, support infrastructure lifecycle activities, and contribute to the introduction of new platform capabilities. You’ll work closely with engineering, security, infrastructure, and application teams to ensure solutions are operationally ready, supportable, and aligned to enterprise standards.
Execute upgrades, patching, and maintenance activities with appropriate validation , rollback, and recovery controls
Implement and maintain observability (monitoring, logging, alerting, dashboards) to support proactive operations
Operate platform security controls (RBAC, service accounts, certificates, secrets) in line with defined policies
We’re transforming at pace. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to change the way we meet the needs of our 28 million customers. We’re growing, and we’d love you to be part of the journey.
Solid technical understanding across cluster architecture, networking, storage, ingress, and operators
And any experience of these would be great
We know that great talent comes from many backgrounds. Whilst this job advert may reference specific years of experience, we recognise that skills are developed in many ways, so if you have relevant, transferable experience, we encourage you to apply.
Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we’re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.
We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:
Ready for a career where you’ll learn and thrive? Apply today and find out more.
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.
