DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer at Barclays

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 technology to revolutionize our digital offerings, ensuring unparalleled customer experiences.

Essential Experience

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

• DevOps Tooling such as Jenkins, GitLab, Nexus, CI/CD
• Hands-on experience with AWS for application hosting
• Solid experience with Infrastructure-as-Code, Terraform, Chef
• Proficiency in developing in a major programming language such as Java or Python

Additional Skills

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Background in engineering
• Experience with SQL databases
• Deployment and Change Management process ITIL
• Knowledge of IT operations best practices

You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in this role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

Purpose of the Role

To design, develop, and improve software, utilizing various engineering methodologies that provide business, platform, and technology capabilities for our customers and colleagues.

Accountabilities

• Development and delivery of high-quality software solutions 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, participation in code reviews, and promotion of a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing.
• Staying informed of industry technology trends and innovations and actively contributing 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

• Consult on complex issues, providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risks and develop 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, requiring understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the organization's sub-function objectives.
• 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, to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex information, which could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to convey because of its content or 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.