Infrastructure Cloud and DevOps Engineer
Barclays · Posted Oct 28
Banking, credit card, corporate, investment banking, and wealth management services
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About the role
Barclays is building and maintaining infrastructure platforms and products that support applications and data systems, using hardware, software, networks, and cloud computing platforms to ensure infrastructure is reliable, scalable, and secure. The role sits within a function focused on reliability, availability, and scalability of systems through software engineering techniques, automation, and incident response best practices. As an Infrastructure Cloud and DevOps Engineer, you will spearhead the evolution of infrastructure and deployment pipelines, and collaborate with data scientists and other stakeholders to build and deploy machine learning models supporting data-driven decision-making.
What you will do
- Build Engineering: Development, delivery, and maintenance of high-quality infrastructure solutions to fulfil business requirements ensuring measurable reliability, performance, availability, and ease of use. Including the identification of the appropriate technologies and solutions to meet business, optimisation, and resourcing requirements.
- Incident Management: Monitoring of IT infrastructure and system performance to measure, identify, address, and resolve any potential issues, vulnerabilities, or outages. Use of data to drive down mean time to resolution.
- Automation: Development and implementation of automated tasks and processes to improve efficiency and reduce manual intervention, utilising software scripting/coding disciplines.
- Security: Implementation of a secure configuration and measures to protect infrastructure against cyber-attacks, vulnerabilities, and other security threats, including protection of hardware, software, and data from unauthorised access.
- Teamwork: Cross-functional collaboration with product managers, architects, and other engineers to define IT Infrastructure requirements, devise solutions, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives via a data driven approach.
- Learning: Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations, and actively contribute to the organization's technology communities to foster a culture of technical excellence and growth.
- To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
- Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues. Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda. Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Helm.
- Kubernetes development.
- Terraform.
- Awareness about Service mesh.
- OTEL implementations.
- Observability and monitoring dashboards.
- AWS Cloud.
- You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.
Preferred qualifications
- Golang (preferred), Java or python.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Barclays
Barclays is a British multinational universal bank that provides consumer, corporate, and investment banking, as well as wealth management services. Tracing its origins back to 1690 in London, the institution operates globally to serve millions of retail and institutional clients. The bank leverages cutting-edge technology and digital platforms to drive operational efficiency across its international network.
- Industry
- Banking
- Company size
- 93000+ employees
- Founded
- 1690
- Location
- London, United Kingdom
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Leadership
Group Chief Executive
Group Finance Director
Group Chief Operating Officer
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