DevOps Engineer

About the Role

Join Barclays as a DevOps Engineer to spearhead the evolution of infrastructure and deployment pipelines, driving innovation and operational excellence. Utilize cutting-edge technology to build and manage robust, scalable, and secure infrastructure, ensuring seamless delivery of digital solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and improve software utilizing various engineering methodologies to provide business, platform, and technology capabilities.
• Develop and deliver high-quality software solutions using industry-aligned programming languages, frameworks, and tools, ensuring code is scalable, maintainable, and optimized for performance.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define software requirements, devise solution strategies, and ensure seamless integration with business objectives.
• Participate in code reviews and promote a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing.
• Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations and contribute to the organization’s technology communities.
• Adhere to secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities, protect sensitive data, and ensure secure software solutions.
• Implement effective unit testing practices to ensure proper code design, readability, and reliability.
• Drive continuous improvement in timely execution of prescribed activities to a high standard.
• Lead and supervise a team, guiding professional development, allocating work, and coordinating resources (if applicable).
• Develop technical expertise in work areas, acting as an advisor where appropriate (if an individual contributor).
• Partner with other functions and business areas.
• Take responsibility for end results of a team’s operational processing and activities.
• Escalate breaches of policies/procedures appropriately.
• Take responsibility for embedding new policies/procedures adopted due to risk mitigation.
• Advise and influence decision-making within own area of expertise.
• Manage risk and strengthen controls in relation to owned or contributed work.
• Deliver work and areas of responsibility in line with relevant rules, regulations, and codes of conduct.
• Build and maintain an understanding of how own sub-function integrates with the function, including knowledge of the organization’s products, services, and processes.
• Demonstrate understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to organizational objectives.
• Make evaluative judgments based on factual information analysis, with attention to detail.
• Resolve problems by identifying and selecting solutions through acquired technical experience, guided by precedents.
• Guide and persuade team members and communicate complex/sensitive information.
• Act as a contact point for stakeholders outside the immediate function and build a network of contacts.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration technologies including Docker, Kubernetes, and OpenShift.
• Strong knowledge of cloud platforms such as OpenShift, AWS, or GCP.
• Experience with monitoring, logging, and observability tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, ELK Stack, or Datadog.
• Good understanding of DevSecOps practices, including vulnerability management, secrets management, security scanning, and compliance controls.
• Strong scripting and automation skills using Python, Bash, PowerShell, or Groovy.
• Experience working with Agile teams.
• Exposure to AI-assisted development and automation tools.
• Strong experience in implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI, Jenkins.
• Experience implementing DevSecOps practices such as SAST, DAST, container image scanning, dependency vulnerability management, and secrets management tools.
• Exposure to enterprise monitoring and observability platforms including Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Splunk, or Datadog.
• Knowledge of infrastructure and network security concepts including TLS/SSL certificates, DNS, load balancers, firewalls, ingress controllers, and identity management.
• Exposure to Financial Services, Banking, or highly regulated environments with knowledge of audit, compliance, resilience, disaster recovery, and change management processes.
• Ability to create reusable platform solutions, self-service deployment capabilities, engineering standards, and developer enablement frameworks.

Qualifications

• In-depth technical knowledge and experience in assigned area of expertise.
• Thorough understanding of underlying principles and concepts within the area of expertise.

Barclays Values and Mindset

• Demonstrate Barclays Values: Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, and Stewardship.
• Demonstrate Barclays Mindset: Empower, Challenge, and Drive.