OpenShift Senior Engineer (Kubernetes/OpenShift)

In this technical leadership role you will shape the OpenShift/private cloud platform at scale, guiding multi-squad initiatives to ensure resilience, security and regulatory compliance while enhancing customer experience. You will set architectural guardrails and standards, coach engineers, and drive modernization to safely enable AI, data-intensive and event-driven workloads. Balance enterprise controls with cloud-native practices and lead platform strategy for a tier-one financial institution.

• pension contribution up to 15%
• annual performance-related bonus
• share schemes including free shares
• discounted shopping
• 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays
• wellbeing initiatives and parental leave policies

• Set technical direction and guardrails for OpenShift and hybrid cloud services
• Lead design decisions on resilience, security, scalability and compliance
• Evaluate new capabilities and vendor roadmaps and turn them into adoption plans
• Own complex multi-squad initiatives, manage dependencies and operational readiness
• Ensure platform health, reduce technical debt and optimize costs
• Provide senior technical leadership during major incidents and drive preventative improvements
• Represent the platform in governance, design reviews and vendor engagements
• Coach engineers in system design and architectural thinking

• Extensive experience designing and operating OpenShift or Kubernetes platforms at scale
• Deep knowledge of platform internals, networking, security controls and integration patterns
• Proven track record setting architectural direction across multiple teams
• Strong systems thinking and ability to assess complex distributed platforms and long-term trade-offs
• Experience with security, audit, availability and recovery requirements in regulated environments
• Infra as Code and CI/CD automation experience
• Focus on reliability, reduced operational toil and safe self-service for application teams
• Experience shaping Agile delivery across squads using Jira

• leadership through influence
• clear communication and sound technical judgement
• coaching and mentoring
• OpenShift
• Kubernetes
• private or hybrid cloud platforms