FX DevOps Engineer

FX DevOps Engineer
Prague

As a Barclays FX DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for helping us build functional systems that improve the customer experience. This is an exciting opportunity to collaborate and work with developers and engineers to ensure that software development follows established processes and works as intended. In this role, you will also help to plan projects and be involved in project management decisions. 

Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, established in 1690, with a legacy of success, quality, and innovation. We offer careers that provide endless opportunity – helping millions of individuals and businesses thrive and creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted.

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.

What will you be doing?
•    Participating in automate deployment, monitoring, and management process using configuration tools (Rancher, kubectl) and CI/CD pipelines
•    Leading the migration of legacy systems to modern-cloud-based environments, ensuring minimal disruption to operations and maximum efficiency gains
•    Designing and implementing Docker containers and container orchestration solutions to improve deployment speed, scalability and resource utilization
•    Collaborating with cross-functional teams to assess current infrastructure and identifying areas for improvement 
•    Developing migration and Dockerization strategies aligned with business objectives and developing scripts to automate monitoring and visualization (ELK, Grafana, ITRS) 
•    Interacting with senior IT and business personnel at both Director and Managing Director level
•    Proposing solutions to complex problems that are in keeping with the existing system architecture

What we’re looking for:
•    Experience as a DevOps engineer or software engineering role with DevOps focus
•    Solid experience with Docker, building & deploying services on Kubernetes and with REST, Kafka, Solace, microservices-based architectures
•    Must have Jenkins, Maven, Gradle and GitLab or GitHub CI/CD experience
•    Knowledge of Monitoring and Observability Tools like Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk and knowledge of application, data and infrastructure architecture disciplines

Skills that will help you in the role:
•    Working knowledge of databases and SQL
•    Experience as a DevOps engineer or software engineering role with DevOps focus
•    Bachelor of science degree (or equivalent) in computer science, engineering, or relevant field
•    Experience in developing/engineering applications for a large company

Where will you be working?
Our Prague office is based in the financial centre of Prague.  We are part of the Operations and Technology Division, and as such, we try our best to stay at the top of our technological game. However, the technology itself is not the most important thing. What matters the most to us is the way our ingenuity can help provide better service to our customers and make life easier for our employees.

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