PostgreSQL SRE

Barclays Bank Plc; Sworton Heath; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global bank is seeking a PostgreSQL SRE to monitor and maintain critical infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience with PostgreSQL and lead efforts in automation and efficiency while collaborating with development teams to ensure robust operations. This role emphasizes innovation and alignment with business goals, offering opportunities for significant impact within the organization.

Qualifications

• Experience as a Database Administrator focusing on PostgreSQL.
• Background in SRE practices implementation in large organizations.
• Hands-on experience with Containers and Kubernetes.
• Experience with Git, JIRA, Ansible, CI/CD tools.
• Expertise in scripting for automation tasks.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and maintain the bank's technology infrastructure.
• Resolve complex system outages and disruptions.
• Develop tools and scripts to automate processes.
• Monitor and optimize system performance.
• Collaborate with teams to implement best practices.

Skills

PostgreSQL experience

Database technologies knowledge

Containers and Kubernetes

DevOps automation tools

Scripting languages (PowerShell, Python, Bash)

Tools

JIRA

Ansible

Job description

Overview

Join us as a PostgreSQL SRE at Barclays where you\'ll monitor and maintain the bank\'s critical technology infrastructure and resolve complex issues with minimal disruption. In this role you will assume a key technical leadership role and shape the direction of our database administration, ensuring approaches are innovative and aligned with the Bank\'s business goals.

Responsibilities

• Availability, performance, and scalability of systems and services through proactive monitoring, maintenance, and capacity planning.
• Resolution, analysis and response to system outages and disruptions, and implement measures to prevent similar incidents from recurring.
• Development of tools and scripts to automate operational processes, reducing manual workload, increasing efficiency, and improving system resilience.
• Monitoring and optimisation of system performance and resource usage, identify and address bottlenecks, and implement best practices for performance tuning.
• Collaboration with development teams to integrate best practices for reliability, scalability, and performance into the software development lifecycle, and work closely with other teams to ensure smooth and efficient operations.
• 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.

Qualifications

• Experience as a Database Administrator, with a focus on PostgreSQL and similar database technologies such as Oracle or MS-SQL.
• A background in implementing and leading SRE practices across large organizations or complex teams.
• Hands-on experience with Containers and Kubernetes.
• Experience with DevOps automation tools such as code versioning (Git), JIRA, Ansible, database CI/CD tools and their implementation.
• Expertise with scripting languages (e.g. PowerShell, Python, Bash) for automation/migration tasks.
• Experience of working on data migration tools and software.
• Expertise in system configuration management tools such as Chef or Ansible for database server configurations.

Leadership and Other Expectations

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 professional knowledge to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees, appraise performance, and determine reward outcomes. If leading, demonstrate leadership behaviours: Listen, Energise, Align, Develop. For individual contributors, lead collaborative assignments and guide team members, identify cross-functional needs, and drive new directions for assignments and projects. Consult on complex issues; identify ways to mitigate risk and develop new policies/procedures in support of controls and governance. Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls. Engage in complex data analysis from multiple sources to solve problems and communicate complex information. Influence stakeholders to achieve outcomes. All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate Barclays Values and Mindset.