At a Glance
- Tasks: Ensure system reliability and performance through automation and incident management.
- Company: Join Barclays, a leader in financial services with a commitment to innovation.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, health benefits, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Dynamic work environment with a focus on collaboration and technical excellence.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on critical systems that support millions of customers daily.
- Qualifications: Experience with Oracle Database, PL/SQL, and automation scripting.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
Join Barclays as an Oracle Site Reliability Engineer, where you'll leverage automation, engineering excellence, and incident management best practices to ensure our critical systems remain resilient, available, and ready to support millions of customers every day.
Qualifications
- Good experience with Oracle Database administration concepts and PL/SQL development.
- Ability to write, optimize, troubleshoot, and maintain multi-layered SQL queries, stored procedures, packages, functions, and performance‑critical database code.
- Good understanding of Oracle architecture, performance tuning, backup/recovery, and high availability solutions.
- Proficiency in Bash/Shell scripting and Python for automation, monitoring, operational tasks, and incident remediation.
- Experience developing automated solutions to improve reliability, reduce manual effort, and support operational excellence.
- Good experience with Git/Bitbucket for version control and source code management.
- Practical knowledge of Jira for Agile delivery, change management, defect tracking, and sprint execution.
- Understanding of CI/CD values and deployment processes for database changes.
- Some Other Highly Valued Skills
- Experience with Ansible for configuration management, database deployment automation, and operational runbook automation.
- Experience with enterprise monitoring and observability platforms (e. g., Oracle Enterprise Manager, Splunk, Elastic, Observe, Grafana, Prometheus).
- Ability to perform root cause evaluation, incident management, and production troubleshooting.
- Knowledge of Oracle RAC, Data Guard, Golden Gate, ASM, and disaster recovery architectures.
- Exposure to cloud platforms (OCI, AWS, Azure) and modern SRE practices such as reliability engineering, capacity planning, and service resilience.
The location of your role is Knutsford.
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 throughout.
- 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.
- Values and Culture
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.
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