At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead the development of reliable and scalable infrastructure platforms using cutting-edge technologies.
- Company: Join Barclays, a leader in financial services with a commitment to innovation.
- Benefits: Enjoy competitive pay, health perks, remote work options, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Collaborate with diverse teams and stay ahead of industry trends in a supportive culture.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by ensuring system reliability and security in a dynamic tech environment.
- Qualifications: Experience in software engineering and familiarity with observability frameworks and automation.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
Embark on a transformative journey as a Lead Engineer– DevOps. At Barclays, our vision is clear – to build and maintain infrastructure platforms and products that support applications and data systems, using hardware, software, networks, and cloud computing platforms as required with the aim of ensuring that the infrastructure is reliable, scalable, and secure.
Ensure the reliability, availability, and scalability of the systems, platforms, and technology through the application of software engineering techniques, automation, and best practices in incident response.
To be successful as a Lead Engineer, you should have experience with:
- Observability frameworks, tools, and infrastructure
- Experience implementing Open Telemetry at scale and defining a supporting observability strategy
- Software Engineer, able to contribute to Python, NodeJs, Java and Go code bases
Some highly valued skills may include:
- Spec-Driven-Development
- Infrastructure as Code
- Total Cost of Ownership e.g. Cloud costs, storage costs
The location of your role is Knutsford.
Purpose of the role: To build and maintain infrastructure platforms and products that support applications and data systems, using hardware, software, networks, and cloud computing platforms as required with the aim of ensuring that the infrastructure is reliable, scalable, and secure.
Accountabilities:
- Build Engineering: Development, delivery, and maintenance of high-quality infrastructure solutions to fulfil business requirements ensuring measurable reliability, performance, availability, and ease of use. Including the identification of the appropriate technologies and solutions to meet business, optimisation, and resourcing requirements.
- Incident Management: Monitoring of IT infrastructure and system performance to measure, identify, address, and resolve any potential issues, vulnerabilities, or outages. Use of data to drive down mean time to resolution.
- Automation: Development and implementation of automated tasks and processes to improve efficiency and reduce manual intervention, utilising software scripting/coding disciplines.
- Security: Implementation of a secure configuration and measures to protect infrastructure against cyber-attacks, vulnerabilities, and other security threats, including protection of hardware, software, and data from unauthorised access.
- Teamwork: Cross‑functional collaboration with product managers, architects, and other engineers to define IT Infrastructure requirements, devise solutions, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives via a data driven approach.
- Learning: 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.
Lead Engineer - DevOps in Knutsford employer: 慨正橡扯
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