Site Reliability Engineer - VP

Barclays•New York, NY

1d•$170,000 - $230,000•Onsite

About The Position

Embark on a transformative journey as a Site Reliability Engineer - VP. At Barclays, our vision is clear –to redefine the future of banking and help craft innovative solutions. Within Liquid Financing we have an obsession to continuing growing our business to become the most integrated financing provider. This role is at the forefront of this transformative journey. To design, develop and improve software, utilizing various engineering methodologies, that provides business, platform, and technology capabilities for our customers and colleagues.

Requirements

Good SRE experience with experience implementing reliability practices, defining SLOs/error budgets, uptime and supporting incident response for multi-layered distributed systems
Proficient in cross region cloud platforms, AWS, Azure, GCP, observability tools, Prometheus and CloudWatch, and automation frameworks with experience of reducing toil
Solid infrastructure as code skills, Terraform and CloudFormation with experience building self-service platforms, tooling, and deployment pipelines for engineering teams
Demonstrated ability in capacity planning, performance tuning, and cost optimization with experience managing production systems at significant scale
Experience in observability and monitoring, metrics collection, logging, distributed tracing, and dashboard creation

Nice To Haves

Understanding of Large Language Models and Agentic frameworks
Self-starter with leadership experience mentoring SREs, running post-mortems, and driving reliability improvements across engineering teams with good collaboration skills
Experience with Kubernetes, service mesh technologies, and microservices reliability patterns in production environments.
Experience working with REST API development and Integration, Database management / Query language
Self-motivated, resourceful, and highly adaptable, with the assurance to work independently while also contributing effectively within a collaborative team environment

Responsibilities

Development of strategic direction for IT Services, including the implementation of up-to- date methodologies and processes.
Management of the IT Services department, including oversight of IT Services colleagues and their performance, implementation of departmental goals and objectives, oversight of department efficiency and effectiveness.
Relationship management of IT Services stakeholders, including identifying relevant stakeholders, and maintenance of the quality of external third party services.
Development and implementation of policies and procedures for IT Services, implementation and adherence of control targets and standards, policies and procedures for IT Services, managing adherence to group SLAs and controls associated with core technology production activities in incident, problem, and change.
Management of IT Services risk, including identification of potential IT Services risks, development of strategies to mitigate those risks, and maintenance of alignment between the bank’s change and compliance functions.
Monitoring the financial performance of the IT Services department, including revenue, profitability, and cost control, driving value from any commercial agreements, strong management of any directly controlled costs etc.
Management of IT Services projects, including driving successful research and related product launches, and deliverance of integrated solutions to clients.
Effectively monitor and maintain the bank’s critical technology infrastructure and resolve more complex technical issues, whilst minimising disruption to operations.
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.
If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also 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.
If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.
OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will 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. They will 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.