DevOps Engineer

3761 Barclays - BX - UK; Knutsford; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Barclays is seeking a DevOps Engineer to design, build, and support secure, scalable infrastructure platforms ensuring reliability and performance through automation and best practices.

The role requires proven CI/CD experience, hands-on OpenShift/Kubernetes administration, and proficiency with DevOps toolchains such as GitLab, Maven, SonarQube and Wiz. Knutsford-based position with opportunities to influence cross-functional teams.

Qualifications

• Proven experience designing, building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Hands-on expertise with OpenShift/Kubernetes administration and application operations.
• Practical experience using DevOps toolchains, including GitLab, Maven, SonarQube and Wiz.

Responsibilities

• Build Engineering: Develop, deliver, and maintain high-quality infrastructure solutions to meet business requirements with reliability, performance, and availability.
• Incident Management: Monitor IT infrastructure and system performance to identify and resolve issues, outages, or vulnerabilities.
• Automation: Create automated tasks and processes to improve efficiency and reduce manual work.
• Security: Implement secure configurations and protections against cyber threats, including data and access security.
• Teamwork: Work with product managers, architects and other engineers to align IT infrastructure with business goals using data-driven approaches.
• Learning: Stay current with technology trends and contribute to technology communities.

Skills

CI/CD expertise

OpenShift Kubernetes admin

DevOps practices

Monitoring observability

DevSecOps practices

Data-driven problem solving

Tools

GitLab

Maven

SonarQube

Wiz

Job description

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

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.

Barclays Values

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.

Job Role Details

Join us as a DevOps Engineer at Barclays, where you will design, build, and support secure, scalable infrastructure platforms, ensuring reliability, availability, and performance through automation and engineering best practices.

To be successful as a DevOps Engineer, you should have:

• Proven experience designing, building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Hands -on expertise with OpenShift/Kubernetes administration and application operations.
• Practical experience using DevOps toolchains, including GitLab, Maven, SonarQube and Wiz.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Knowledge of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles, including reliability, scalability and operational resilience.
• Experience embedding security, compliance and DevSecOps practices into software delivery pipelines.
• Expertise in monitoring, observability and performance optimisation using industry-standard tooling.

You may be assessed on the 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.

Location

This role will be based in Knutsford.

Company Culture

Our Work Experience is the combination of everything that's unique about us: our culture, our core values, our company meetings, our commitment to sustainability, our recognition programs, but most importantly, it's our people. Our employees are self-disciplined, hard working, curious, trustworthy, humble, and truthful. They make choices according to what is best for the team, they live for opportunities to collaborate and make a difference, and they make us the #1 Top Workplace in the area.