PUBLIC CLOUD ENGINEER

As a Barclays Public Cloud Engineer, you will be a Site Reliability Engineer in a team that will be part of the whole lifecycle of feature development, from solution design all the way through to production support and back again, and help to define our future SRE capability. We are expanding our existing Engineering team to meet the objective “You Build It, You Own It”.

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?

• Designing, assessing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems

• Developing effective tooling, alerts, and response to both identify and address reliability risks including automatic problem detection and mitigation

• Being involve in every aspect of the platform — from the earliest stage of product architecture, design and development to deployment

• Conducting performance analysis to ensure a reliable quality product in production

• Designing and building tools to observe and manage a rapidly growing number of products and services

• Taking initiative to do what must be done in order to keep critical systems operating

• Performing general Cloud service, OS, Web/Application server, database configuration, installs, automation

• Participating in on-call rotation in a 24x7 environment

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR:

• Experience with configuration and troubleshooting of Public Cloud (deployment, monitoring, and ops visualisation tools)

• Experience of software engineering skills in at least one language, including coding, testing and deployment

• Approach troubleshooting systematically with an ability to identify root causes of instability in a high-traffic, distributed system

• Willing to work in an ever-changing environment with a passion for sharing knowledge

SKILLS THAT WILL HELP YOU IN THE ROLE:

• AWS Certified to Practitioner level with entry-level skills in at least one programming language

• ITIL Foundation Certificate, software delivery lifecycle and release management or experience of working in an Agile/Kanban team

• Knowledge of Operating Systems, the TCP/IP stack, network routing and load balancing

• Practical experience of writing and updating technical documentation

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.