Lead DevOps Engineer

Purpose of the role

To build and maintain infrastructure platforms and products that support applications and data systems, using hardware, software, networks, and cloud computing platforms as required with the aim of ensuring that the infrastructure is reliable, scalable, and secure.  Ensure the reliability, availability, and scalability of the systems, platforms, and technology through the application of software engineering techniques, automation, and best practices in incident response. 

Accountabilities

• Build Engineering:  Development, delivery, and maintenance of high-quality infrastructure solutions to fulfil business requirements ensuring measurable reliability, performance, availability, and ease of use. Including the identification of the appropriate technologies and solutions to meet business, optimisation, and resourcing requirements.

• Incident Management: Monitoring of IT infrastructure and system performance to measure, identify, address, and resolve any potential issues, vulnerabilities, or outages. Use of data to drive down mean time to resolution.

• Automation:  Development and implementation of automated tasks and processes to improve efficiency and reduce manual intervention, utilising software scripting/coding disciplines.

• Security: Implementation of a secure configuration and measures to protect infrastructure against cyber-attacks, vulnerabilities, and other security threats, including protection of hardware, software, and data from unauthorised access.

• Teamwork:  Cross-functional collaboration with product managers, architects, and other engineers to define IT Infrastructure requirements, devise solutions, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives via a data driven approach.

• Learning: Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations, and actively contribute to the organization's technology communities to foster a culture of technical excellence and growth.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.

• Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing 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, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.

• 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 such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively.

• Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its 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.

Join us as a Lead DevOps Engineer at Barclays, where you'll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. You'll harness cutting-edge technology to evolutionise our digital offerings, ensuring unparalleled customer experiences.

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

• Deployment on aPaaS or Openshift or server deployments should login and analyze the issues in live logs. Must have experience in resolving the issues that comes across while performing Build and deployment.

• Monitoring issues in live, root cause identification, performance logs monitoring etc.

• Should take responsibility for all infrastructure upgrades like Certificate management, Veracode scanning, Patching, Prisma, Secure key management etc related to Test and Live environment.

• Experience with a CI/DevOps pipeline with git, Maven/Gradle, Jenkins and Strong understanding of the end-to-end processes triggering from the Digital channels.

• Awareness of leading-edge tools, techniques and services within IT,

• Well versed with branching Strategies.

• Have worked on creating DevOps CICD pipelines via Jenkins to deploy the application from non-prod to Prod.

• Software development consisting of some of the following languages and technologies:

• Jenkins to deploy applications.

• Build tools Maven/Gradle.

• Authorization & Authentication methodologies within DevOps.

• Versioning Tool GitLab, Bitbucket.

• Artifacts repository and image Registry

• Docker, Containers and orchestration part of it.

• Scripting languages like Bash, Python, Groovy

• Degree in Engineering or Computer Science or similar.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Cloud certified for one or more of the following platforms - AWS, Openshift

• Intermediate-level Python, Java, Groovy skills with ability to create and debug Jenkins Declarative pipelines.

• ITIL Foundation Certificate, software delivery lifecycle and release management

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

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

This role is based out of Pune.