Site Reliability Engineer -VP

Barclays•Jefferson, CO

6d•Onsite

About The Position

Barclays is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to join its Securitized Products team within the Markets organization. This role focuses on improving the reliability, scalability, and performance of critical Securitized Products systems through automation, and engineering practices. You will apply software engineering, automation, and incident, change and best practices to ensure the reliability, availability, and scalability of Barclays technology platforms. You will act as a subject‑matter specialist for SRE practices, partnering with infrastructure and engineering teams to embed reliability into platforms across cloud, on-prem, compute, storage, networking, and databases.

Requirements

Programming or scripting experience (Python, Go, PowerShell, Bash, or similar) and SQL
Linux/Unix/Windows systems and systems engineering fundamentals
Client-server model architecture and scalability knowledge
monitoring high traffic by distributing load across multiple backend servers.
Performance monitoring and reducing latency in request-response cycles.
Containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
Networking (TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, SFTP)
relational databases
monitoring and observability tools (Geneos ITRS, Prometheus, Grafana, APM, Observe)

Nice To Haves

Communication skills with the ability to influence teams and drive adoption of SRE practices
Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
Ability to troubleshoot multi-faceted, distributed systems with contending priorities
Trading floor support experience
basic understanding of Securitized Products business
Implementing redundancy, such as server clustering and failover mechanisms, to reduce application downtime and improve recovery time goals

Responsibilities

Development and delivery of high-quality software solutions by using industry aligned programming languages, frameworks, and tools.
Ensuring that code is scalable, maintainable, and optimized for performance.
Cross-functional collaboration with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define software requirements, devise solution strategies, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives.
Collaboration with peers, participate in code reviews, and promote a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing.
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.
Adherence to secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities, protect sensitive data, and ensure secure software solutions.
Implementation of effective unit testing practices to ensure proper code design, readability, and reliability.
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.
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.
Apply software engineering, automation, and incident, change and best practices to ensure the reliability, availability, and scalability of Barclays technology platforms.
Act as a subject‑matter specialist for SRE practices, partnering with infrastructure and engineering teams to embed reliability into platforms across cloud, on-prem, compute, storage, networking, and databases.