Cloud Lead Engineer

Join us as a Cloud Lead Engineer at Barclays, where you will spearhead the evolution of our infrastructure and deployment pipelines, driving innovation and operational excellence. You will harness cutting-edge technology to build and manage robust, scalable and secure infrastructure, ensuring seamless delivery of our digital solutions.  

To be successful as a Cloud Lead Engineer, you should have experience with:

• Design, implement, and maintain AWS infrastructure using industry best practices.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning using Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform or AWS CloudFormation.
• Build and manage CI/CD pipelines using AWS CodePipeline, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or similar tools.
• Monitor system performance, availability, and health using AWS CloudWatch and third-party monitoring tools.
• Ensure high availability, scalability, and security of cloud environments.
• Collaborate with development teams to optimize application deployment and performance.
• Manage IAM roles, security groups, and AWS policies to enforce secure access control.
• Perform cost optimization, resource tagging, and usage analysis to manage AWS spend effectively.
• Maintain and troubleshoot AWS services including EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, and others.
• Stay current with AWS service updates, emerging technologies, and industry best practices.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Strong knowledge of AWS services and architecture patterns.
• Hands-on experience with IaC tools (Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Proficiency in scripting languages (Python, Bash, etc.).
• Experience with CI/CD tools and DevOps practices.
• Solid understanding of networking, security, and identity management in AWS.
• Familiarity with monitoring, logging, and alerting tools.
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.
• AWS certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer).
• Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, ECS, EKS).
• Exposure to hybrid cloud or multi-cloud environments.
• Knowledge of compliance and governance frameworks.

You may be assessed on 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.

The role is based out of Pune.

Purpose of the role

To build and maintain the systems that collect, store, process, and analyse data, such as data pipelines, data warehouses and data lakes to ensure that all data is accurate, accessible, and secure. 

Accountabilities

• Build and maintenance of data architectures pipelines that enable the transfer and processing of durable, complete and consistent data.
• Design and implementation of data warehoused and data lakes that manage the appropriate data volumes and velocity and adhere to the required security measures.
• Development of processing and analysis algorithms fit for the intended data complexity and volumes.
• Collaboration with data scientist to build and deploy machine learning models.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.
• OR for an individual contributor, they will lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
• Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
• Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
• Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
• Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.

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.