Senior Site Reliability Engineer

1 week ago

Knutsford, Cheshire East, United Kingdom Barclays UK Full time
Join Barclays as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer and become part of our newly formed Core SRE Team. This team will establish a Centre of Excellence to enhance and promote SRE best practices across GTIS. As a key hire, you will play a pivotal role in raising awareness and driving adoption of SRE methodologies within various GTIS teams. This is a hands-on engineering role where you will design, build, and optimise automation frameworks, observability tools, and incident response mechanisms. This role also involves collaborating across GTIS and CTO, engaging with storage, data, and other product teams. You will act as a trusted advisor, providing strategic guidance and consultative support to help teams improve reliability, scalability, and efficiency.

To be successful in this role you should have:
  • Proficiency in Programming and Scripting - This includes expertise in languages such as Python, PowerShell, or Go, which are essential for automating routine tasks and system deployments.
  • Incident Management and Troubleshooting - The ability to manage incidents effectively, troubleshoot issues swiftly, and perform root cause analysis to prevent future incidents.
  • Systems Engineering and Automation - A deep understanding of systems engineering, including operating systems, networking, cloud infrastructure, databases, and observability practise. Proficiency in automation tools is crucial for maintaining system reliability at scale.
Some other highly valued skills include:
  • Knowledge of Cloud Computing - Familiarity with cloud platforms and services, which is increasingly important as more infrastructure moves to the cloud.
  • Strong Problem-Solving Abilities - The capability to approach problems methodically and find effective solutions, which is vital for maintaining system reliability.
  • Excellent Communication Skills - The ability to communicate effectively with team members and other stakeholders, ensuring that everyone is on the same page and that issues are resolved efficiently.
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.

The successful candidate can either be based in Knutsford or Glasgow.

Purpose of the role

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.

Accountabilities
  • 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.
Vice President Expectations
  • Contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures.
  • Be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. Lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. Train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions.
  • Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.
  • Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
  • Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
  • Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
  • Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
  • Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
  • Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
  • Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.
All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship - our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset - to Empower, Challenge and Drive - the operating manual for how we behave.

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