Engineering Infrastructure/DevOps Lead

Join us as a Engineering Infrastructure/DevOps Lead at Barclays, where you'll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. You'll harness cutting-edge technology to revolutionise our digital offerings, ensuring unparalleled customer experiences. As a part of team of developers, you will deliver technology stack, using strong analytical and problem solving skills to understand the business requirements and deliver quality solutions.

To be successful as a Engineering Infrastructure/DevOps Lead you should have experience with:

• Experience/Knowledge of,

  Operating systems - Unix/Linux

  Shell & PowerShell scripting

  Relational Database, preferably Oracle DB Server

  Application/Web server, preferably JWS Tomcat & Spring boot framework.

  Infrastructure as a Code (IaC) tools like Chef, Ansible

  Monitoring tools like AppDynamics, ESaaS

  Messaging technologies, preferably IBM MQ, Kafka

  Experience working with OpenShift Container Platform & AWS

• Implement monitoring and analytics to track performance, identify bottlenecks, and optimize the systems. 

• Manage & drive the DevOps pipeline that supports the application lifecycle across the DevOps toolchain – from planning, coding & building, to testing, to staging, to PROD release.

• Conversant into framing out the deployment strategy for deploying the artifacts 

• Experience of tools like Bitbucket, Nexus, Jenkins/Gitlab & Nolio.

• Team Leadership - Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing Infra/DevOps team, fostering a collaborative and innovative environment.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration - Facilitate positive engagement and collaboration between multiple parties including key internal & external stakeholders. Ability to effectively communicate with both technical and non-technical audiences. 

• Compliance and Security - Ensure compliance with industry regulations and standards, and implement security measures to protect infrastructure and data. 

• Problem-Solving and Troubleshooting - Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to address technical challenges.

• Strategic Thinking - Ability to develop and execute strategic plans for strategic initiatives.

Some other highly valued skills includes:

• Industry-Specific Knowledge - Experience in a financial services/ FinCrime domain will be beneficial. 

• Cloud Platform Expertise - Proficiency with cloud platforms like AWS. 

• Understanding of containerization and orchestration - Experience with Docker and Kubernetes. 

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.

This role is based out of Pune.

Purpose of the role

To build and maintain infrastructure platforms and products that support applications and data systems, using hardware, software, networks, and cloud computing platforms as required with the aim of ensuring that the infrastructure is reliable, scalable, and secure.  Ensure the reliability, availability, and scalability of the systems, platforms, and technology through the application of software engineering techniques, automation, and best practices in incident response. 

Accountabilities

• Build Engineering:  Development, delivery, and maintenance of high-quality infrastructure solutions to fulfil business requirements ensuring measurable reliability, performance, availability, and ease of use. Including the identification of the appropriate technologies and solutions to meet business, optimisation, and resourcing requirements.
• Incident Management: Monitoring of IT infrastructure and system performance to measure, identify, address, and resolve any potential issues, vulnerabilities, or outages. Use of data to drive down mean time to resolution.
• Automation:  Development and implementation of automated tasks and processes to improve efficiency and reduce manual intervention, utilising software scripting/coding disciplines.
• Security: Implementation of a secure configuration and measures to protect infrastructure against cyber-attacks, vulnerabilities, and other security threats, including protection of hardware, software, and data from unauthorised access.
• Teamwork:  Cross-functional collaboration with product managers, architects, and other engineers to define IT Infrastructure requirements, devise solutions, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives via a data driven approach.
• Learning: 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.

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.