Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - VP

Barclays•Jefferson, CO

8d•$170,000 - $230,000•Onsite

About The Position

Barclays is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - VP to engineer and operate the resilient, secure, and scalable infrastructure underpinning its next generation of Digital Asset Technology. The role spans cloud platforms, production reliability, CI/CD infrastructure, security automation, disaster recovery, and operational resilience. The position involves designing, developing, and improving software and infrastructure using industry-aligned engineering methodologies. The engineer will build and operate highly available platforms, strengthen reliability and observability, and incorporate operational resilience and security throughout the platform lifecycle. They will work with engineering, architecture, cybersecurity, infrastructure, risk, and operations teams, and may guide technical direction as a subject matter expert. The role also carries Vice President-level expectations around strategic contribution, risk management, stakeholder advice, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

Proven success building and running highly available cloud and infrastructure platforms.
Experience with on-call duties, incident response, disaster simulations, contingency planning, and recovery testing.
Experience building and maintaining CI/CD platforms, source code hosting, development tooling, deployment infrastructure, and infrastructure automation.
Experience supporting specialized infrastructure across cloud and colocation environments.
Demonstrated ownership of security and service infrastructure, including extensive Infrastructure as Code practices.
Ability to automate provisioning, access and security controls, cloud security posture, and technology policies.
Commitment to improving reliability, observability, performance, capacity, and resilience using automation, monitoring, and metrics.
Ability to collaborate across engineering, architecture, cybersecurity, infrastructure, risk, and operations teams.
Ability to contribute to strategy, manage risk and controls, advise stakeholders, and develop solutions through sophisticated analytical thought.
Ability to work with internal and external stakeholders using influencing and negotiating skills.

Nice To Haves

Hands-on experience with AWS or other major cloud platforms, Kubernetes, containers, Terraform, Infrastructure as Code, and configuration management.
Experience operating hybrid infrastructure across public cloud, enterprise, and colocation environments.
Expertise in CI/CD engineering, Git-based source control, secrets and certificate management, infrastructure access controls, and automated security controls.
Working knowledge of observability, monitoring, logging, alerting, incident management, disaster recovery, capacity management, and production engineering.
Familiarity with Digital Asset Technology infrastructure, including blockchain/DLT nodes, validators, RPC infrastructure, wallets, HSM/MPC services, and cryptographic key-management infrastructure.
Foundation in distributed systems, network reliability, secure engineering, automation, and production operations within highly regulated environments.

Responsibilities

Build, operate, and improve highly available cloud and infrastructure platforms, including participating in on-call duties, incident response, disaster simulations, contingency planning, and recovery testing.
Build and maintain deployment and operational infrastructure, including CI/CD platforms, source code hosting, development tooling, and infrastructure automation.
Support specialized infrastructure across cloud and colocation environments.
Use Infrastructure as Code to automate provisioning, access and security controls, cloud security posture, and technology policies.
Lead CI/CD incident response to protect critical deployment pipelines.
Improve service reliability, observability, performance, capacity, and resilience through automation, monitoring, and metrics.
Collaborate with engineering, architecture, cybersecurity, infrastructure, risk, and operations teams to incorporate reliability and operational resilience throughout the Digital Asset Technology platform lifecycle.
Develop and deliver high-quality, scalable, maintainable, and performant software solutions.
Collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineers to define requirements, devise solutions, and ensure integration with business objectives.
Participate in code reviews and promote code quality and knowledge sharing.
Apply secure coding practices and unit testing to improve security, code design, readability, and reliability.
Contribute to or set strategy, drive requirements, recommend changes, and deliver continuous improvements.
Advise key stakeholders and senior management on functional and cross-functional impacts and alignment.
Assess and mitigate risks, strengthen controls, and support the control and governance agenda.
Build and maintain internal and external stakeholder relationships to accomplish business objectives.
Stay informed about technology trends and contribute to technology communities.