Lead Software Engineer - Network Automation
Barclays · Posted Oct 6
Banking, credit card, corporate, investment banking, and wealth management services
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About the role
The Operational Support Systems (OSS) Platform Engineering team is a new team within Barclays' Network OSS & Tools functional unit in the Network Product domain, responsible for designing, building, and running OSS infrastructure and toolchain across cloud and on-prem to support the Barclays Global Network. The role is a Lead Software Engineer - Network Automation, focused on building and maintaining reliable, scalable, and secure infrastructure platforms and products. The engineer will work on automation, incident response, security, and cross-functional collaboration to support network systems.
What you will do
- To build and maintain infrastructure platforms and products that support applications and data systems, using hardware, software, networks, and cloud computing platforms as required with the aim of ensuring that the infrastructure is reliable, scalable, and secure.
- Ensure the reliability, availability, and scalability of the systems, platforms, and technology through the application of software engineering techniques, automation, and best practices in incident response.
- 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
- Hands-on expertise with IaC, Cloud Platforms, CI/CD Pipelines, Containerization & Orchestration and SRE principles; in a product organization with Network products.
- Must be strong in python, OOP / Design Patterns, Backend Development, Microservices, FastAPI
- Strong Knowledge and demonstrable hands-on experience with Networking - Routing & Switching, Network Security and Data Centre Technologies (BGP, VXLAN/EVPN, Spine-Leaf implementation, NGFW, IDS/IPS, NAC, Segmentation etc).
- Expertise building highly available and secure networks for low latency and high throughput applications.
- Expert knowledge of Cloud Networking (AWS/Azure/GCP) and Hybrid cloud connectivity - with expertise setting up TCO efficient resilient cloud connectivity for applications across multiple geo-locations and availability zones.
- Minimum Graduation degree is required for the role.
- You may be assessed on the 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
- Expertise working in Network and infrastructure operational product engineering and knowledge of network element management plane, control plane, data plane and fast switching.
- A very good understanding of Network Protocols - TCP/IP, UDP, HTTP/HTTPS, DNS, DHCP, BGP, OSPF, VXLAN, IPSec, etc.
- CCNA or equivalent certification an added advantage.
- Expertise in Network Security and Network Automation an added advantage.
- Specifically experience with concepts of zero trust, TLS/SSL, VPNs and concepts like gNMI/gRPC, RESTCONF etc.
- Programming expertise in one of the high-level languages like Python, Java, Golang alongside proficiency in Agile Methodologies Scrum/Kanban, backlog and workflow mgmt. and SRE specific reporting (MTTR, deployment frequency, SLO etc).
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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