Join us as a “Dev Ops Engineer” at Barclays, where you'll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. You'll harness cutting-edge technology to revolutionise our digital offerings, ensuring unapparelled customer experiences.
You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as experience with, skills to meet business requirement as well as job-specific skillsets.
To be successful as a “Dev Ops Engineer", you should have experience with:
Basic/ Essential Qualifications:
- Infrastructure & Cloud Architecture: Design, provision, and manage scalable AWS infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation, Terraform). Experience with multi-account strategies, VPC design, transit gateways, and hybrid cloud architectures. Implement API Gateway patterns including REST/WebSocket APIs, custom authorizers, and integration with Lambda/backend services.
- Configuration Management: Implement infrastructure automation using Chef (cookbooks, recipes, roles, environments). Experience with version control for infrastructure code, testing frameworks (ChefSpec, InSpec), and maintaining Chef Server/Automate environments.
- Observability & Monitoring: Design comprehensive monitoring strategies using AWS CloudWatch (custom metrics, dashboards, alarms, Logs Insights). Integrate distributed monitoring with ITRS Geneos for real-time infrastructure health, AppDynamics for APM and business transaction monitoring, and ESaaS for enterprise-scale observability.
- Container Orchestration: Build production-grade containerized applications with Docker (multi-stage builds, image optimization, security scanning). Deploy and manage Kubernetes clusters including pod scheduling, resource management, service mesh integration, ingress controllers, persistent storage, and cluster autoscaling.
- CI/CD Pipeline Engineering: Architect end-to-end GitLab CI/CD pipelines with multi-stage deployments, artifact management, and environment promotion strategies. Implement automated quality gates integrating SonarQube (code coverage, technical debt analysis) and Veracode (SAST/DAST scanning). Configure pipeline-as-code, shared libraries, and deployment strategies (blue-green, canary, rolling updates).
- Systems Administration & Automation: Expert-level Unix/Linux system administration including performance tuning, kernel parameters, systemd service management, and troubleshooting. Develop complex automation scripts in Bash and PowerShell for deployment orchestration, log analysis, backup/recovery procedures, and operational tasks.
- Security & Compliance: Implement security best practices including TLS 1.2/1.3 configuration, certificate lifecycle management (generation, renewal, rotation), mutual TLS authentication, and secure key storage. Configure security groups, NACLs, IAM policies following least-privilege principles, and encryption at rest/in transit.
Desirable skillsets/ good to have:
- Security Tooling: Integrate CyberArk for privileged access management and secrets rotation, implement automated Veracode scanning in CI/CD workflows with policy enforcement, configure SonarQube quality profiles and custom rules, and manage CSM (Cloud Security Management) for compliance monitoring.
- Network Engineering: Design and troubleshoot complex network topologies including VPN configurations, Direct Connect, route tables, BGP routing, DNS management (Route53), and load balancing strategies (ALB/NLB). Configure firewall rules, security policies, and network segmentation.
- Application Server Management: Deploy, configure, and optimize Apache HTTP Server (virtual hosts, mod_proxy, SSL/TLS, performance tuning) and JBoss/WildFly application servers (domain/standalone modes, datasource configuration, clustering, JVM tuning, deployment strategies).
- Preferred certifications:AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate/Professional OR AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional
This role is based out of Pune.
Purpose of the role
To lead and manage engineering teams, providing technical guidance, mentorship, and support to ensure the delivery of high-quality software solutions, driving technical excellence, fostering a culture of innovation, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to align technical decisions with business objectives.
Accountabilities
- Lead engineering teams effectively, fostering a collaborative and high-performance culture to achieve project goals and meet organizational objectives.
- Oversee timelines, team allocation, risk management and task prioritization to ensure the successful delivery of solutions within scope, time, and budget.
- Mentor and support team members' professional growth, conduct performance reviews, provide actionable feedback, and identify opportunities for improvement.
- Evaluation and enhancement of engineering processes, tools, and methodologies to increase efficiency, streamline workflows, and optimize team productivity.
- Collaboration with business partners, product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions and ensure a cohesive approach to product development.
- Enforcement of technology standards, facilitate peer reviews, and implement robust testing practices to ensure the delivery of high-quality solutions.
Assistant Vice President Expectations
- To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
- Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes
- If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.
- OR for an individual contributor, they will lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
- 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.
