Caching SRE

Overview

Join Barclays as a Caching SRE to apply software engineering techniques, automation, and incident-response best practices to ensure the reliability, availability, and scalability of systems, platforms, and technology. The role focuses on operating and improving Redis environments, service reliability, observability, automation, and operational excellence.

What you'll do

• Ensure the availability, performance, and scalability of systems and services through proactive monitoring, maintenance, and capacity planning.
• Resolve, analyse, and respond to system outages and disruptions, and implement measures to prevent similar incidents from recurring.
• Develop tools and scripts to automate operational processes, reducing manual workload, increasing efficiency, and improving system resilience.
• Monitor and optimise system performance and resource usage, identify and address bottlenecks, and implement best practices for performance tuning.
• Collaborate with development teams to integrate best practices for reliability, scalability, and performance into the software development lifecycle.
• Work closely with other teams to ensure smooth and efficient operations.
• Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations, and contribute to the organization's technology communities.
• Advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development, and take responsibility for operational effectiveness.
• Collaborate closely with other functions and business divisions.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver work that impacts the whole business function.
• Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraise performance relative to objectives, and determine reward outcomes.
• Lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments as an individual contributor.
• Identify the need for other areas of specialisation, identify new directions for assignments and projects, and use cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
• Consult on complex issues and provide advice to People Leaders to support resolution of escalated issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and develop new policies and procedures supporting the control and governance agenda.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
• Collaborate with other areas of work and business-aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and strategy.
• Analyse data from multiple internal and external sources to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex information and influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.

What you'll need

• Strong experience operating and troubleshooting Redis at scale, including Cluster, Replication, HA, Backup/Recovery, and Performance Tuning.
• Strong SRE background with expertise in service reliability, incident management, observability, automation, and operational excellence.
• Strong Python programming skills for platform automation, self-service tooling, operational workflows, and service lifecycle management.

Nice to have

• Working experience in financial domain.
• Experience with Kafka based event-driven architecture.
• Experience with AIOP process and methods.

Details

• Location: Pune.