Senior DevOps/Infrastructure Engineer

Barclays•Hanover Township, NJ

1d•$170,000 - $230,000•Onsite

About The Position

Join Barclays as a Senior DevOps/Infrastructure Engineer - VP. You will lead the design, development, and maintenance of infrastructure platforms and products that support critical applications and data systems. This role requires expertise across hardware, software, networking, and cloud technologies to ensure the infrastructure is robust, scalable, and secure. You will play a key role in driving innovation and operational excellence within the technology organization.

Requirements

Fundamentals in software engineering
Experience in Java/Spring/Microservices
Applying Resilience-patterns/Circuit-breakers
Infrastructure as code (IaC)
CI/CD pipelines and automation
Observability tooling such as DataForce, Dynatrace, ELK, and Data Dog
Risk and controls
Change and transformation
Business acumen
Strategic thinking
Digital and technology skills
Job-specific technical skills

Nice To Haves

Experience with event-driven architectures/message-brokers
Knowledge of container-orchestration in OpenShift or public cloud environments
Understanding of performance-optimization with distributed-caching

Responsibilities

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.
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.
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.
Development and implementation of automated tasks and processes to improve efficiency and reduce manual intervention, utilising software scripting/coding disciplines.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.