AI Platform SRE Lead: Build Scalable, Secure AI Systems

3761 Barclays - BX - UK; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Barclays in Glasgow seeks an AI SRE Lead to steer design, engineering, reliability and operational excellence for large-scale AI-enabled platforms. You will align cross-functional teams, drive platform governance and risk management, and ensure secure, scalable deployments across the developer ecosystem.

In this role you will partner with product managers, designers and engineers to translate business needs into robust technical solutions, while upholding Barclays values and regulatory

Qualifications

• Experience leading and delivering reliability engineered platforms.
• Strong governance, risk management and stakeholder leadership in regulated environments.
• Hands-on with cloud-native infrastructure and automation tooling.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, engineering, reliability and operational excellence of AI-enabled platforms.
• Drive platform strategy, governance, and risk management.
• Collaborate with product, security, and business partners to translate requirements into scalable solutions.
• Mentor engineers and foster a high-performance culture.

Skills

AWS / Cloud

SRE Leadership

DevOps / Platform Eng

AI / GenAI

CI/CD / IaC

Chaos Engineering

Large-scale deployments

Stakeholder leadership

Tools

Backstage

Coder

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Barclays in Glasgow seeks an AI SRE Lead to steer design, engineering, reliability and operational excellence for large-scale AI-enabled platforms. You will align cross-functional teams, drive platform governance and risk management, and ensure secure, scalable deployments across the developer ecosystem.

In this role you will partner with product managers, designers and engineers to translate business needs into robust technical solutions, while upholding Barclays values and regulatory