Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Private Cloud
Barclays · Posted Nov 4
Banking, credit card, corporate, investment banking, and wealth management services
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About the role
The role sits in Barclays' central SRE core team within the wider Infrastructure team, acting as a centre of excellence that provides hands-on consultancy to infrastructure product teams covering private cloud, storage, networks and databases. The team applies software engineering techniques, automation and incident-response best practices to keep systems, platforms and technology reliable, available and scalable. This Senior SRE will automate operations with Python, PowerShell or Go, drive incident and root cause analysis, and embed reliability practices into the software development lifecycle.
What you will do
- Availability, performance, and scalability of systems and services through proactive monitoring, maintenance, and capacity planning.
- Resolution, analysis and response to system outages and disruptions, and implement measures to prevent similar incidents from recurring.
- Development of tools and scripts to automate operational processes, reducing manual workload, increasing efficiency, and improving system resilience.
- Monitoring and optimisation of system performance and resource usage, identify and address bottlenecks, and implement best practices for performance tuning.
- Collaboration with development teams to integrate best practices for reliability, scalability, and performance into the software development lifecycle, and work closely with other teams to ensure smooth and efficient operations.
- 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
- Should have expertise in languages such as Python, Power shell, or Go, which are essential for automating routine tasks and system deployments.
- Should have ability to manage incidents effectively, troubleshoot issues swiftly, and perform root cause analysis to prevent future incidents.
- Deep understanding of systems engineering, including operating systems, networking, and cloud infrastructure.
- Proficiency in automation tools is crucial for maintaining system reliability at scale.
- Should be able to communicate effectively with team members and stakeholders, ensuring alignment, inspiring and motivating them to embrace new mindsets, cultures, and SRE working practices.
- This skill is crucial for driving meaningful change and fostering a collaborative environment where innovative ideas can thrive.
- Should be able to familiar with cloud platforms and services, which is increasingly important as more infrastructure moves to the cloud.
- Should have capability to approach problems methodically and find effective solutions, which is vital for maintaining system reliability.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience working with IaaS and/or PaaS products, including some experience of either virtualization, containerization, orchestration of compute/network/storage.
- Experience working with REST API development and Integration, Database management / Query language.
- Proficiency in implementing monitoring and alerting systems to ensure service availability and performance
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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