AVP : Site Reliability Engineer (40674)

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. 

Accountabilities

• 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.

   

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.

Join us as a S ite Reliability Engineer (SRE) - Identity Access Management. You will be bringing to life a new digital platform capability, transforming and modernising our digital estate to build a market-leading digital offering with customer experience at its heart. You will be partnering with business aligned engineering and product teams, to ensure a collaborative team culture is at the heart of what we do.

To be successful in this role you should have:

• Experience in designing, implementing, deploying, and running highly available, fault-tolerant, auto-scaling and auto-healing systems.

• Strong expertise in AWS (essential), (Azure, and GCP (Google cloud platform) is a plus), including Kubernetes (ECS is essential, Fargate and GCE is a plus) and server-less architectures.

• Strong experience in running disaster recovery, zero downtime solutions and in designing and implementing continuous delivery across large-scale, distributed, cloud-based micro service 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.

Some other highly desirable skills include:

Experience in hands-on configuration, deployment and operation of ForgeRock COTS based IAM (Identity Access management) 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.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role will be based out of our Pune o