OpenShift Engineer (Kubernetes/OpenShift) in Manchester

As an OpenShift Engineer, you will help engineer, operate, and improve the Bank’s enterprise OpenShift platform, creating resilient, secure, and scalable services for critical workloads. This role is hands‑on and delivery focused, with responsibility for building, configuring, automating, and supporting platform capabilities that enable application teams to run safely and effectively in a regulated environment.

You will contribute across platform engineering, automation, support, and continuous improvement—working with Kubernetes and OpenShift technologies to deliver reliable outcomes for colleagues and customers. At Grade D, you are expected to work with a good degree of independence on complex tasks, apply sound engineering judgement, and take ownership of problems through to resolution, while drawing on support for the most complex or ambiguous issues.

You will help introduce and improve platform capabilities that increase consistency, security, operability, and developer experience. This may include automation, observability, policy enforcement, deployment patterns, and platform integrations. You will assess changes pragmatically, considering resilience, supportability, and risk, and ensure new capabilities are production‑ready and aligned with engineering standards and control requirements.

At Grade D, you are expected to:

• Deliver complex engineering work with limited supervision, taking ownership from design through implementation, testing, and handover into support.
• Troubleshoot platform and service issues methodically, using data and evidence to identify root causes and resolve problems safely.
• Contribute to technical design and implementation decisions, recognising trade‑offs across resilience, security, operability, performance, and cost.
• Improve automation, documentation, standards, and operational practices to reduce toil and improve platform consistency.
• Support and guide other engineers through collaboration, knowledge sharing, pairing, and review of engineering work.

You will work closely with Product, Security, Architecture, Service, and SRE colleagues to deliver changes that are reliable, supportable, and compliant. You will also contribute during incidents, upgrades, and recovery activities, helping to restore service quickly and capture improvements that strengthen the platform over time.

This role is well suited to an engineer with strong OpenShift and Kubernetes experience who enjoys solving operational and engineering problems, improving platform reliability, and helping teams adopt cloud‑native services safely. It offers the opportunity to make a visible contribution to a strategic platform that supports critical banking services, while continuing to grow technical depth, judgement, and influence within the engineering community.

If you are motivated by platform engineering, automation, resilience, and secure service delivery—and want to take ownership of meaningful engineering outcomes in a complex environment—this role offers a strong opportunity to contribute and grow.

What you’ll be doing:

• Build, configure, test, and improve OpenShift platform capabilities, automation, and supporting tooling.
• Deliver engineering changes through defined standards and controls, with appropriate validation, rollback planning, and operational readiness.
• Contribute to platform design decisions and implementation approaches for networking, security, observability, resilience, and lifecycle management.
• Investigate incidents, defects, and performance issues, using logs, metrics, traces, and other evidence to identify and resolve causes.
• Support upgrades, patching, capacity planning, and recovery activities to maintain platform stability and service continuity.
• Help improve runbooks, support documentation, alerting, and operational processes to make support more effective and repeatable.
• Use infrastructure as code, scripting, and CI/CD practices to improve consistency, reduce manual effort, and strengthen platform reliability.
• Find opportunities to simplify engineering workflows, remove repetitive tasks, and improve the developer experience for platform consumers.
• Apply engineering standards for security, resilience, auditability, and change control, ensuring changes are supportable and compliant.
• Raise risks, issues, and dependencies clearly, and contribute to practical remediation and service improvement plans.
• Work effectively within a squad and across engineering fields, contributing to planning, estimation, design discussions, and reviews.
• Share knowledge with peers and support less experienced engineers through collaboration, documentation, and constructive feedback.

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.

What we’re looking for:

• 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.
• Able to deliver complex technical work with a good degree of independence, owning tasks through design, implementation, testing, and support.
• Applies 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.

Benefits:

• 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.

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.

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.