INFRASTRUCTURE TECHNICIAN

As a Barclays’ Infrastructure Technician this is an exciting opportunity where you will provide aid to Barclays Messaging environment, primarily managing, and assisting IBM MQ, IBM ACE, Apache Kafka and AMQ. You will work with the design and business community to obtain the high-level Messaging requirements. These requirements are translated into low level Messaging designs and deliverables. Your role provides exposure to leading edge software technology and underlying platforms operating mission critical services to the group.

Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, with 329 years of success, quality, and innovation behind us. We've helped millions of individuals and businesses thrive, creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted. An important and growing presence in the USA, we offer careers providing endless opportunity.

WORKING FLEXIBLY

We’re committed to providing a supportive and inclusive culture and environment for you to work in. This environment recognizes and supports ways to balance your personal needs, alongside the professional needs of our business. Providing the opportunity for all our employees, globally to work flexibly empowers each of us to work in a way that suits our lives as well as enabling us to better service our customers’ and clients’ needs. Whether you have family commitments or you’re a carer, or whether you need study time or wish to pursue personal interests, our approach to working flexibly is designed to help you balance your life. If you would like some flexibility, then please discuss this with your hiring manager, and your request will be reviewed subject to business needs.

We are currently in the early stages of implementing a hybrid working environment, which means that many colleagues spend part of their working hours at home and part in the office, depending on the nature of the role they are in. We’re flexible on how this works and it may continue to change and evolve. Depending on your team, typically this means that colleagues spend a minimum of between 20% to 60% of their time in the office, which could be over a week, a month or a quarter. However, some colleagues may choose to spend more time in the office over a typical period than their role type requires. We also have a flexible working process where, subject to business needs, all colleagues globally are able to request work patterns to reflect their personal circumstances. Please discuss the detail of the working pattern options for the role with the hiring manager.

WHAT WILL YOU BE DOING?

•     Operating as a Middleware Messaging Engineer, providing key input into the life cycle of a variety of messaging technologies

•     Providing SME and third level support for Messaging technologies to support the continued availability, effectiveness, and risk compliance of the infrastructure

•     Contributing to the management of the full change lifecycle for Messaging components, from initial request for change to deployment and review.

•     Maintaining or enhancing infrastructure components & services, to ensure that business objectives are met, & deliverables achieved to agreed timescale, budget, and quality

•     Working with application teams to deliver messaging solutions to meet their project demands

•     Planning input to the future strategic direction of Messaging technologies

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR:

•     Familiarity with UNIX and Linux plus some Shell scripting skills and basic administrative skills

•     Awareness of automation technologies i.e., CHEF

•     Knowledge of a range of infrastructure principles and offerings i.e., Cloud

•     Experience of working in a change-controlled environment

SKILLS THAT WILL HELP YOU IN THE ROLE:

•     Significant Knowledge/Administration skills for MQ, Kafka and AMQ

•     Experience in any development language

•     Knowledge of IIB/ACE development, Toolkit, ESQL Coding

•      Any cloud or container-based qualifications or experience, or has shown a real passion for the technology and / or proven experience in working within a technology

WHERE WILL YOU BE WORKING?

At Barclays, we are proud to be redefining the future of finance and here at Whippany we are defining the future of the workplace and the future of the way we work and live. We are creating a unique community, one of four strategic tech-enabled hubs that will redefine opportunity for everyone who works here. Whatever you do at Whippany, you’ll have every chance to build a world-class career in this world-class environment.

We’re a global, vital and highly respected financial organisation with an inspiring Purpose. Operating in 50 countries and employing around 83,000 people across the world, we help communities, individuals and businesses thrive. And we’ve created financial solutions and technology that the world now takes for granted. A career with us can offer incredible variety, depth and breadth of experience, and the chance to learn from some of the best minds in technology and finance.