DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer at Barclays

Join us as a DevOps Engineer at Barclays where you will spearhead the evolution of our infrastructure and deployment pipelines, driving innovation and operational excellence. You will harness cutting-edge technology to build and manage robust, scalable and secure infrastructure, ensuring seamless delivery of our digital solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain robust, scalable, and secure infrastructure using cutting-edge technology.
• Drive innovation and operational excellence in infrastructure and deployment pipelines.
• Ensure seamless delivery of digital solutions.
• Build and maintain systems for collecting, storing, processing, and analyzing data, including data pipelines, warehouses, and lakes.
• Design and implement data warehouses and data lakes adhering to security measures.
• Develop processing and analysis algorithms for complex data.
• Collaborate with data scientists to build and deploy machine learning models.

What You'll Need:

• Experience as a DevOps Expert & AWS Cloud Engineer.
• Containerization experience (Docker/Kubernetes).
• Security Vulnerability Management experience.
• CI/CD & Automation Engineering: Strong experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and automating end-to-end software delivery processes using tools like Jenkins and GitLab, along with scripting across environments.
• Cloud Infrastructure, IaC & Platform Reliability: Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS), infrastructure as code (Terraform/CloudFormation), containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), monitoring/observability, and platform reliability engineering.
• Configuration Management & Environment Automation: Experience with configuration management tools and methodologies (e.g., Chef, YAML-based automation, environment setup).

Assistant Vice President Expectations:

• Advise and influence decision-making, contribute to policy development, and take responsibility for operational effectiveness.
• Collaborate closely with other functions/business divisions.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, leveraging professional knowledge and skills to deliver impactful work.
• Set objectives, coach employees, appraise performance, and determine reward outcomes.
• Demonstrate leadership behaviors (Listen, Energize, Align, Develop) to create a thriving environment.
• For individual contributors: Lead collaborative assignments, guide team members, identify specialized needs, and explore new directions using cross-functional methodologies.
• Consult on complex issues and provide advice to People Leaders.
• Identify risk mitigation strategies and develop new policies/procedures.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls.
• Understand how different work areas coordinate to achieve organizational objectives.
• Collaborate with business-aligned support areas to stay updated on business activity and strategy.
• Engage in complex data analysis from multiple sources to solve problems creatively.
• Communicate complex information effectively to various audiences.
• Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.

Barclays Values:

• Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, and Stewardship.
• Barclays Mindset: Empower, Challenge, and Drive.

Key skills/competency

• DevOps Engineer
• AWS Cloud
• Containerization
• CI/CD
• Automation
• Jenkins
• GitLab
• Terraform
• Kubernetes
• Platform Reliability