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.

About the Role

The purpose of the DevOps Engineer role is to apply software engineering techniques, automation, and best practices in incident response, to ensure the reliability, availability, and scalability of the systems, platforms, and technology through them.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure the availability, performance, and scalability of systems and services through proactive monitoring, maintenance, and capacity planning.
• Resolve, analyze, and respond to system outages and disruptions, and implement measures to prevent similar incidents from recurring.
• Develop tools and scripts to automate operational processes, reducing manual workload, increasing efficiency, and improving system resilience.
• Monitor and optimize system performance and resource usage, identify and address bottlenecks, and implement best practices for performance tuning.
• Collaborate 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.

Experience and Skills Required

• Experience of Application or Technical Support.
• Good Knowledge on Release, Deployment and Change management process (ITIL).
• Good Knowledge in UNIX/Linux/Windows systems.
• Good Knowledge of Cloud services like AWS, along with the tools like Terraform, Chef, etc.
• Extensive hands-on on AWS and Containerization tools like, Kubernetes, Docker, etc.
• Hands-on knowledge on Unix systems.

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.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

As an Assistant Vice President, you will advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. You will collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions. You may lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. This includes setting objectives, coaching employees, appraising performance, and determining reward outcomes. If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate clear leadership behaviours: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others. For an individual contributor, you will lead collaborative assignments and guide team members, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation, and identify new directions for assignments and/or projects. You will consult on complex issues, provide advice to People Leaders, and identify ways to mitigate risk. You will take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls. You will perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, requiring an understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to organisational objectives. You will collaborate with other areas for business-aligned support, keeping up-to-date with business activity and strategy. You will engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources to solve problems creatively and effectively. You will communicate complex information and influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values: Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – Empower, Challenge and Drive.

Key skills/competency

• DevOps Engineering
• Infrastructure Management
• Cloud Computing (AWS)
• Containerization (Kubernetes, Docker)
• Automation (Terraform, Chef)
• Release Management
• ITIL
• Unix/Linux Systems
• System Monitoring
• Incident Response