MARKETS RTB – OPERATIONAL RIGOR & GEMINI L2 SRE

As a member of Reliability Engineering team, you will be leading a team of experienced technologists expected to create innovative technology solutions through engineering principles. With your deep knowledge of design, analytics, testing, and application programming, your team will work on scalable solutions across Prime and Post Trade technology that help business stability. You will be interfacing with the business and heads of technology development. You'll work in a collaborative, trusting, thought-provoking environment-one that encourages diversity of thought and creative solutions that are in the best interests of our business globally. You will be collaborating with vendor and in house resources to achieve common targets of reducing manual redundant monitoring and provide solutions at scale to make Barclays Run-The-Bank technology a better place to work.

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.

WHAT WILL  YOU BE DOING?

•     Understanding of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) philosophy, technologies, platforms and tools, SLA management, incident resolution, and automation 

•     Responsible for automation of batch management flows using CA Autosys and CA iDash scheduling tools and scripts in python, unix and powershell scripting language 

•     Responsible for installation, upgrade and testing of monitoring infrastructure using AppDynamics, ITRS etc. monitoring tools, for Java based applications installed on weblogic and tomcat 

•     Responsible for automation of daily batch status emails using scripts in python, unix and powershell scripting language 

•     Responsible for automation of day to day business activities including network maintenance events, patching events, resiliency events and application deployments 

•     Participating in design and project status meeting, and provide operational documentation to project team members 

•     Identifying critical processes for monitoring, plan, coordinate and implement standards, and recommend changes to improve performance

•     Participating and support functional, regression and user acceptance testing

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR:

•      BS/BA degree or equivalent experience

•     Understanding of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) philosophy, technologies, platforms and tools, SLA management, incident resolution, and automation

SKILLS THAT WILL HELP YOU IN THE ROLE:

•     Knowledge of java, python, autosys, AWS, hive and hadoop 

•     Excellent written and oral communication skills 

•     Good understanding of best practice risk and control procedures

•     Ability to take ownership and manage time constructively

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.