OpenShift Engineer; Kubernetes​/OpenShift

Position: OpenShift Engineer (Kubernetes/OpenShift)
End Date Thursday 03 September 2026

Salary Range
48,987 - 54,430

We support flexible working –  for more information on flexible working options

Flexible Working Options Hybrid Working, Job Share

Job Description Summary As an Open Shift Engineer, you will help engineer, operate, and improve the Bank’s enterprise Open Shift 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 Open Shift 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 will typically be 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 Open Shift 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.

Job Description

JOB TITLE:

Open Shift Engineer (Kubernetes/Open Shift)
SALARY: 48,987 – 54,430

LOCATION(S):
Leeds, Manchester, or Edinburgh

HOURS:

Full-time – 35 hours per week (There is an on-call requirement)
WORKING PATTERN:
Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at our Leeds, Manchester, or Edinburgh office sites. Colleagues with disabilities can be supported with workplace adjustments including hybrid working expectations in line with our Flexibility Works policy. About this opportunitys an Open Shift Engineer, you'll help engineer, operate, and improve the Bank’s enterprise Open Shift 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…