Infrastructure Engineer AVP
Barclays · Posted Oct 16
Banking, credit card, corporate, investment banking, and wealth management services
Bengaluru, IndiaFull-timeOnsiteLead/Staff8+ years₹30.0L–₹45.0L yearly100+ applicants
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About the role
Barclays is hiring an AVP Infrastructure Engineer to build and maintain the infrastructure platforms and products that support its applications and data systems, ensuring they are reliable, scalable and secure. The role sits within an engineering function focused on infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, DevSecOps, cloud (AWS) and site reliability practices. The engineer will provide L2/L3 support for infrastructure and application stacks, drive automation and release excellence, and provide technical leadership across Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Docker/EKS and GitLab tooling.
What you will do
- Lead the design, build and support of secure, scalable and high-performing applications.
- Hands-on in infrastructure engineering activities, including IAC, automation, design governance and troubleshooting.
- Define and implement standards, patterns and development best practices.
- Drive adoption of modern CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, security controls and release automation.
- Collaborate closely with Product Owner, Solution Architect, Security, Platform and QA teams to deliver integrated digital solutions.
- Ensure compliance with enterprise security, risk, governance and regulatory requirements.
- Provide technical leadership across various technologies like Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Shell script, Datadog, python, API, docker, containers, ECR, EKS and GitLab.
- Mentor and coach team on career development through feedback, technical assistance performance management and development planning.
- Foster a culture of collaboration, accountability, continuous improvement, and engineering excellence.
- Support recruitment, onboarding, and team growth initiatives.
- Champion DevSecOps practices, observability, reliability engineering and operational excellence across the mobile landscape.
- Promote knowledge sharing through code reviews, technical discussions, pairing sessions, and documentation.
- Balance technical excellence with delivery commitments and business outcomes.
- 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.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Experience working within large-scale, complex, or long-lived mobile codebases.
- Strong understanding of software architecture, maintainability, and modern engineering practices.
- Strong advocate of clean, testable, and maintainable code.
- Experience balancing technical quality, operational stability, performance, and delivery objectives.
- Comfortable providing technical guidance, code reviews, and architectural direction.
- Strong communication, stakeholder management, and influencing skills.
- Experience driving a culture of engineering excellence and continuous improvement.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Strong stakeholder management and influencing capabilities.
- Strong analytical and critical thinking skills.
- Collaborative and inclusive leadership style.
- Customer-focused mindset with strong attention to quality.
- Programming language python or Java
- Technical Skills Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Shell script, Datadog, docker, containers, GitLab, Snyk, Qualys, Jira, Confluence, Datadog, JUnit, Maven, Gradle, and NPM
- AWS cloud computing EC2, ECR, EKS, S3, Cloud Formation, networks
- Database design and SQL
- Operating System knowledge – Windows, Linux and awareness on AIX
- System design and architecture.
- Experience with OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, token exchange, policy systems, delegated administration, or identity data modelling
- Ability to use AI engineering tools to accelerate research, code understanding, prototyping, implementation, and documentation while applying sound engineering judgment
- Experience building production services, distributed systems, or shared platform capabilities
- Experience designing and implementing APIs, RESTful services, integration contracts, and data or domain models
- Experience turning requirements and ambiguous problems into designs, prototypes, and production-ready solutions
- Experience with authentication, authorization, and identity management
- Ability to communicate technical decisions clearly, collaborate across teams and time zones, and support other engineers through feedback and knowledge sharing
- Familiarity with MCP, agent skills, and other agent integration concepts
- Experience contributing to technical designs and proof of concept work
- Manage incidents, problems, and changes using ITIL-aligned processes and SLAs (e.g., ServiceNow/Jira).
- Plan and execute OS patching cycles; maintain compliance with security and audit requirements.
- Maintain comprehensive runbooks, knowledge base articles, and support documentation.
- Very good understanding and solid hands-on on cloud computing system preferably AWS.
- Strong understanding on containers and hands-on experience in EKS/Docker also ability to write and deploy Helm chart.
- Build, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, Nexus) to improve release velocity and quality.
- Hands-on experience in Blue-Green deployments and good understanding of various other deployment strategy.
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
CV
C.S. Venkatakrishnan
Group Chief Executive
AC
Anna Cross
Group Finance Director
AC
Alistair Currie
Group Chief Operating Officer
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