Senior SRE - Cloud Reliability & Automation

3761 Barclays - BX - UK; Knutsford; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Barclays is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to drive reliability, scalability, and performance across our core banking platforms. The role combines hands-on SRE work with software engineering, embedding SRE practices and maturity across diverse stakeholder groups.

You will apply advanced programming, automation, and data‑driven approaches to reduce incident impact, improve observability, and accelerate delivery.

Qualifications

• Hands-on SRE experience with programming and automation.
• Ability to drive SRE maturity across groups.
• Strong debugging and data-driven problem solving.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Passion for learning and improving system reliability.

Responsibilities

• Lead incident response and post-mortems to reduce MTTR.
• Develop and maintain automation for deployment and operations.
• Collaborate with product, architecture, and security teams.
• Improve monitoring and observability of critical systems.

Skills

SRE practices

Programming skills

Fault analysis

Data-driven decision making

Communication

Tools

Observability tools

Job description

Barclays is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to drive reliability, scalability, and performance across our core banking platforms. The role combines hands-on SRE work with software engineering, embedding SRE practices and maturity across diverse stakeholder groups.

You will apply advanced programming, automation, and data‑driven approaches to reduce incident impact, improve observability, and accelerate delivery.