OpenShift Engineer – Kubernetes, OpenShift

Lloyds Banking Group

OpenShift Engineer building and operating Lloyds Banking Group’s secure enterprise OpenShift platform. Improving automation, resilience, and cloud-native delivery for critical banking workloads.

Posted 8/20/2026full-timeLeeds • 🇬🇧 United KingdomMid-LevelSenior💰 £48,987 - £54,430 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in building and supporting OpenShift or Kubernetes platforms, with a strong focus on automation, infrastructure as code, and secure engineering practices. Capable of delivering complex technical solutions independently while improving operational processes and supporting team collaboration.

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OpenShift Platform SupportKubernetes Platform ExperienceInfrastructure As CodeAutomation Tools (Ansible, Terraform)SRE Practices

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Hard Skills

Cluster ArchitectureNetworkingPlatform SecurityWorkload Lifecycle ManagementCI/CD PracticesScriptingIncident InvestigationPerformance Issue ResolutionCapacity PlanningRollback Planning

Soft Skills

CollaborationKnowledge SharingJudgementIndependenceMentoring

Tools & Technologies

Git-based WorkflowsService MeshPolicy EnforcementGitOpsObservability Tools

Industry Keywords

Private CloudHybrid CloudMulti-environment EstatesOperational ReadinessChange Control

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AnsibleCloudKubernetesOpenShiftTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Build, configure, test, and improve OpenShift platform capabilities, automation, and supporting tooling
Deliver engineering changes through defined standards and controls, with validation, rollback planning, and operational readiness
Contribute to platform design decisions for networking, security, observability, resilience, and lifecycle management
Investigate incidents, defects, and performance issues using logs, metrics, traces, and other evidence
Support upgrades, patching, capacity planning, and recovery activities
Improve runbooks, support documentation, alerting, and operational processes
Use infrastructure as code, scripting, and CI/CD practices to improve consistency and platform reliability
Simplify engineering workflows, remove repetitive tasks, and improve developer experience
Apply standards for security, resilience, auditability, and change control
Raise risks, issues, and dependencies and contribute to remediation and service improvement plans
Work within a squad and across engineering fields on planning, estimation, design discussions, and reviews
Share knowledge and support less experienced engineers through collaboration, documentation, and feedback
Contribute during incidents, upgrades, and recovery activities to restore service and strengthen the platform

Requirements

What you’ll need

Strong practical experience building, operating, and supporting OpenShift or Kubernetes platforms in production environments
Good understanding of cluster architecture, networking, ingress, storage, platform security, operators, and workload lifecycle
Ability to deliver complex technical work with a good degree of independence, owning tasks through design, implementation, testing, and support
Sound judgement when balancing resilience, operability, security, performance, and delivery needs
Experience using automation and infrastructure as code tools such as Ansible, Terraform, scripting, Git-based workflows, and CI/CD pipelines
Focus on repeatability, consistency, and reducing operational toil through engineering improvements
Strong awareness of secure engineering practices including access control, certificate and secret handling, patching, auditability, and change control
Experience supporting OpenShift or Kubernetes across private cloud, hybrid cloud, or multi-environment estates
Exposure to service mesh, policy enforcement, GitOps, advanced ingress patterns, platform observability, or developer self-service tooling
Awareness of SRE practices such as service level objectives, resilience testing, progressive delivery, and failure scenario planning
Experience working with strategic vendors or enterprise support teams to troubleshoot issues, assess product capabilities, or support upgrades
Experience supporting less experienced engineers through pairing, documentation, review, and practical guidance
Availability for an on-call requirement

Benefits

Comp & perks

A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
An annual performance-related bonus
Share schemes including free shares
Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
28 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
Flexible working options, including hybrid working and job share
Workplace adjustments including hybrid working expectations support for colleagues with disabilities