Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Private Cloud

Overview

Senior Site Reliability Engineer for Barclays' central SRE core team within the wider Infrastructure team. Acts as a centre of excellence providing hands-on consultancy to infrastructure product teams (private cloud, storage, networks, databases) and applies software engineering techniques to ensure the reliability, availability and scalability of systems.

What you'll do

• Ensure 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 actively contribute to the organisation's technology communities to foster a culture of technical excellence and growth.
• Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management, on functional and cross-functional areas of impact and alignment.
• Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought, comparing and selecting complex alternatives.

What you'll need

• Expertise in languages such as Python, PowerShell or Go, essential for automating routine tasks and system deployments.
• Ability to manage incidents effectively, troubleshoot issues swiftly and perform root cause analysis to prevent future incidents.
• Deep understanding of systems engineering, including operating systems, networking and cloud infrastructure.
• Proficiency in automation tools, crucial for maintaining system reliability at scale.
• Ability to communicate effectively with team members and stakeholders, ensuring alignment and inspiring them to embrace new mindsets, cultures and SRE working practices.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms and services.
• Ability to approach problems methodically and find effective solutions.

Nice to have

• Experience working with IaaS and/or PaaS products, including some experience of virtualisation, containerisation, and orchestration of compute, network and storage.
• Experience working with REST API development and integration, and database management and query language.
• Proficiency in implementing monitoring and alerting systems to ensure service availability and performance.

Details

• Location: Pune office.
• Leadership expectations apply where the role carries leadership responsibilities; otherwise the role is an individual contributor acting as a subject matter expert who guides technical direction.
• Assessed on risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, digital and technology, and job-specific technical skills.