Senior Site Reliability Engineer for CIAM

Barclays • Hanover Township, NJ

30d • $170,000 - $230,000 • Onsite

About The Position

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. Join us as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer for CIAM at Barclays, where you will bring to life a new digital platform capability, transforming and modernizing our digital estate to build a market-leading digital offering with customer experience at its heart. This is an exciting and key role, partnering with business-aligned engineering and product teams to ensure a collaborative team culture is at the heart of what we do.

Requirements

• Experience in designing, implementing, deploying, and running highly available, fault-tolerant, auto-scaling, and auto-healing systems
• Considerable expertise in AWS (essential), with Azure and GCP as a plus, including Kubernetes (ECS is essential; Fargate and GCE are a plus) and serverless architectures
• Considerable experience in running disaster recovery and zero-downtime solutions, and in designing and implementing continuous delivery across large-scale, distributed, cloud-based microservice and API service solutions with 99.9%+ uptime
• Hands-on experience coding in Python, Bash, and JSON/YAML (configuration as code)
• The ability to drive reliability best practices across engineering teams, embed SRE principles into the DevSecOps lifecycle, and partner with engineering, security, and product teams to balance reliability and feature velocity

Nice To Haves

• Experience in hands-on configuration, deployment and operation of ForgeRock COTS based IAM solutions (PingGateway, PingAM, PingIDM, PingDS) with embedded security gates HTTP header signing, access token and data at rest encryption, PKI based self-sovereign identity, or open source

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.
• Define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes.
• Lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements.
• Demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard.
• 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.
• 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.
• Demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right.
• Demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.

Benefits

• Barclays employees are eligible for a suite of a competitive and generous employee benefits, including medical, dental and vision coverage, 401(k), life insurance, and other paid leave for qualifying circumstances.
• This position is eligible for an incentive award.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed