Network DevOps Lead

Job Title : Network DevOps Lead
Location: Chennai

About Barclays
Barclays is a British universal bank. We are diversified by business, by different types of customers and clients, and by geography. Our businesses include consumer banking and payments operations around the world, as well as a top-tier, full service, global corporate and investment bank, all of which are supported by our service company which provides technology, operations and functional services across the Group.

Risk and Control Objective

Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work you do

Working Flexibly

Structured hybrid role:    
At Barclays, we offer a hybrid working experience that blends the positives of working alongside colleagues at our onsite locations, together with working from home.  We have a structured approach where colleagues work at an onsite location on fixed, ‘anchor’, days of the week, for a minimum of two days a week or more, as set by the business area (or nearest equivalent if working part-time hours). Please discuss the working pattern requirements for the role you are applying for with the hiring manager. Please note that as we continue to embed our hybrid working environment, we remain in a test and learn phase, which means that working arrangements may be subject to change on reasonable notice to ensure we meet the needs of our business.

Introduction:
The role is to be a Network DevOps Lead.

The role will require the engineer to be able to perform hands on coding activities.

What will you be doing?
•    Senior automation engineer in a team, providing expertise across multiple programming frameworks, languages and network and security products
•    Defining automation workflows in consultancy with platform engineers.
•    Ownership of technical project deliveries. 
•    Work closely with stakeholders and Product management to assist in creating and maintain the technical strategy and roadmap for Automation use cases
•    Key projects which the team owns:
o    Infrastructure As Code based automation
o    Firewall ruleset automation to an estate of over 2000 firewalls
o    Load balancer automation
o    Network standardisation through automation
•    Developing the automation framework according to devops principles

What we’re looking for:
The candidate should have proven experience with respect to Network or Infrastructure Automation preferably within a large multi-site global financial environment or equivalent scale service provider.  These could be transferrable skills having worked on public cloud infrastructure automation as an example.

•    Automation using Python and preferably Ansible
•    Experience in frameworks and databases such Django, Flask, PostgreSQL and similar
•    Experience in Event driven automation using Kafka based Event Bus
•    Experience in building microservices on Kubernetes/OCP platform
•    Experienced in REST API development along with API integration using an API Gateway 
•    Working knowledge of GIT, Jenkins, and other DevOps tools along with integration between multiple tools to facilitate user stories
•    Solid experience automating network devices such as Routers, Switches, load balancers, firewalls etc. Transferable skills in AWS or other public cloud infrastructure automation is also fine.
•    The candidate should have a minimum of a Bachelors’ Degree and or equivalent, in one of the following areas: Computer Science, Software Engineering, Telecommunication Networks, Electrical Engineering 
•    The candidate should have a minimum experience of 8 years in Software development and Automation

Skills that will help you in the role:
•    Excellent understanding and hands-on experience with monitoring/collector protocols such as SNMP Polls and Traps, Syslog, NetFlow, Streaming Telemetry, NetConf/RestConf for state data, etc.
•    Experience of having worked with CMDB platforms and an understanding of Enterprise level network management platforms.
•    Experience of IPAM and SoR tools such as Netbox
•    Experience in operating in a Scrum/Agile/SDLC environment
•    Working knowledge of Linux systems in terms of daemons, services, file system, rpm packages, etc.
•    Designing and building full stack solutions based on microservices architecture preferably using Openshift for containerisation alongside python Django

Where will you be working?
Chennai


Be More at Barclays
At Barclays, each day is about being more – as a professional, and as a person. ‘Be More @ Barclays’ represents our core promise to all current and future employees. It’s the characteristic that we want to be associated with as an employer, and at the heart of every employee experience. We empower our colleagues to Be More Globally Connected, working on international projects that improve the way millions of customers handle their finances. Be More Inspired by working alongside the most talented people in the industry, and delivering imaginative new solutions that are redefining the future of finance. Be More Impactful by having the opportunity to work on cutting-edge projects, and Be More Valued for who you are.
Interested and want to know more about Barclays? Visit home.barclays/who-we-are/ for more details.

Purpose, Values and Mindset
We deploy finance responsibly to support people and businesses, acting with empathy and integrity, championing innovation and sustainability, for the common good and the long term.

Our values underpin everything we do: Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship.

Respect
We harness the power of diversity and inclusion in our business, trust those we work with, and value everyone's contribution.
Integrity
We operate with honesty, transparency and fairness in all we do.
Service
We act with empathy and humility, putting the people and businesses we serve at the centre of what we do.
Excellence
We champion innovation, and use our energy, expertise and resources to make a positive difference.
Stewardship
We prize sustainability, and are passionate about leaving things better than we found them.
Our Mindset shapes how we take action, living by our Values, driven by our Purpose, always with our customers and clients at the heart of what we do; our Mindset is to Empower, Challenge and Drive.
Empower 
Trust and support each other to deliver. Make decisions with those closest to the topic. Include diverse perspectives. Celebrate success and learn from failure.
Challenge
Question whether things can be done better. Use insights based on data to inform decisions. Be curious about how we can adapt and improve. Speak up and be open to alternative viewpoints.
Drive
Focus on outcomes. Deliver with pace. Be passionate and ambitious about what we do. Take personal responsibility. Actively build collaborative relationships to get things done.