Cloud Native & DevOps Tech Sr.Specialist

Job Description

Join Us

At Vodafone, we’re not just shaping the future of connectivity for our customers – we’re shaping the future for everyone who joins our team. When you work with us, you’re part of a global mission to connect people, solve complex challenges, and create a sustainable and more inclusive world. If you want to grow your career whilst finding the perfect balance between work and life, Vodafone offers the opportunities to help you belong and make a real impact.

Role Purpose

To be responsible for the infrastructure design, capacity planning, deployment, configuration, performance monitoring, security, and lifecycle management of Vodafone’s Cloud Native platforms — with a primary focus on Red Hat OpenShift and containerized workloads. The role ensures high availability, scalability, and reliability of the underlying infrastructure supporting DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines. In addition, the role leads the development and implementation of the infrastructure strategy and roadmaps that enable Vodafone’s digital transformation and platform modernization initiatives.

Role Profile

• Mentor and guide junior team members to foster deep technical expertise and high-quality delivery in cloud-native and DevOps domains
• Lead the design, deployment, and scaling of OpenShift infrastructure and DevOps platforms to meet evolving business and application demands
• Oversee the health, performance, and availability of cloud-native infrastructure, ensuring end-to-end monitoring, automation, and proactive issue resolution
• Collaborate with vendors and partners to align platform strategy, negotiate licensing/support, and ensure optimal return on investment
• Enforce and report on compliance with IT Security, Privacy, and Confidentiality policies across all DevOps and infrastructure-related activities, especially for containerized and cloud-hosted workloads

Qualification and Requirements

• Strong communication, presentation, analytical and problem solving skills
• Good leadership skills
• Dedication, sense of ownership, and ability to work within a team.
• Innovative & creative thinking for new solutions, technologies and data protection.
• The ability to work quickly, under pressure and to deadlines across the functional groups.

Must have technical / professional qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 3 years of Systems working experience
• Technical certificates in OpenShift/DevOps tools
• Excellent knowledge of OpenShift/DevOps tools

Not a perfect fit?

Worried that you don’t meet all the desired criteria exactly? At Vodafone we are passionate about empowering people and creating a workplace where everyone can thrive, whatever their personal or professional background. If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align exactly with every part of the job description, we encourage you to still apply as you may be the right candidate for this role or another opportunity.

Who we are

We are a leading international Telco, serving millions of customers. At Vodafone, we believe that connectivity is a force for good. If we use it for the things that really matter, it can improve people's lives and the world around us. Through our technology we empower people, connecting everyone regardless of who they are or where they live and we protect the planet, whilst helping our customers do the same.

Belonging at Vodafone isn't a concept; it's lived, breathed, and cultivated through everything we do. You'll be part of a global and diverse community, with many different minds, abilities, backgrounds and cultures. ;We're committed to increase diversity, ensure equal representation, and make Vodafone a place everyone feels safe, valued and included.

If you require any reasonable adjustments or have an accessibility request as part of your recruitment journey, for example, extended time or breaks in between online assessments, please refer to https://careers.vodafone.com/application-adjustments/ for guidance.

Together we can.