DevOps Engineer

Join us as a DevOps Engineer at Barclays, where you'll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. You'll harness cutting-edge technology to revolutionize our digital offerings, ensuring unapparelled customer experiences.

 To be a successful DevOps Engineer, you should have experience with:

• Experience in Analyzing new functional / Technical as well as non-functional requirements to find the most appropriate technical solution contributing to the overall system design and providing different solution options and define pros and cons based on driving forces from a commercial, operational and technology viewpoint.
• Experience of application integration and implementation issues and their architectural implications. Good understanding of best practice design methods with proven innovative and leading-edge thinking.
• Good knowledge and experience of End-To-End CI/CD process and creating deployment jobs to cater the Project requirements.
• Built cloud native solutions and worked as an SME for AWS solutions.
• Good knowledge and Worked on Versioning tools like Git, Bitbucket or GitLab, Jenkins, Python, Unix/bash, Groovy, Chef, Docker, Micro services, Containers and its orchestration (Kubernetes)
• Substantial experience on Maven, Gradle, Image Scan for Vulnerabilities, SonarQube, Veracode to manage artifacts, Vulnerabilities management, compliances management.
• Experience working in setting up cloud infrastructure using Automation IAC (Infrastructure AS Code) - CloudFormation, Terraform.
• Experience on AWS Networking services & Cloud network patterns such as VPC, network interconnect, subnets, peering, firewalls, etc.
• Good knowledge on Keys (Public & Private keys), Keystore based Authentication.
• Hands on experience of using AWS Services, IAM, VPC, EC2, EKS, S3, ECS, Lambda, Service Catalog, Cloud formation, Security groups, NACLs, API Gateway, RDS, Dynamo DB, RDS, Load balancers, System manager, SSM parameters, Secret manager, Cloud Watch, Kinesis.
• Debugging and problem-solving skills.
• Working experience in Agile Methodology.
• Banking domain / Reg Reporting knowledge.
• Structured approach to problem solving and ability to manage parallel streams of work.
• Strong interpersonal and written/oral communications skills.
• Experience in mentoring junior resources.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Java Spring Boot, Spring JDBC
• Working experience in development using SOLID principles, design patterns.
• Junit, Mockito, Power Mock, Spring testing framework, etc.
• Applied knowledge of design and integration patterns.
• Good to have experience on Jira, Confluence.
• Good to have knowledge of other Cloud Services like Azure, OpenShift.

 Desirable skills/Preferred Qualifications:

• Excellent Communication Skills along with good interpersonal abilities to collaborate effectively.
• Exposure to working within a controlled environment such as banking and financial services.
• Relevant AWS certification(s).
• Exposure to microservices architecture and distributed systems.
• Demonstrate knowledge and experience of IT Security patterns, considerations and best practices.
• Ability to work independently with minimum supervision and help the team with AWS expertise
• Willingness to expand on AWS and other Cloud Services knowledge.

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 design, develop and improve software, utilising various engineering methodologies, that provides business, platform, and technology capabilities for our customers and colleagues. 

Accountabilities

• Development and delivery of high-quality software solutions by using industry aligned programming languages, frameworks, and tools. Ensuring that code is scalable, maintainable, and optimized for performance.
• Cross-functional collaboration with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define software requirements, devise solution strategies, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives.
• Collaboration with peers, participate in code reviews, and promote a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing.
• 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.
• Adherence to secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities, protect sensitive data, and ensure secure software solutions.
• Implementation of effective unit testing practices to ensure proper code design, readability, and reliability.

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.