Senior SRE: Reliability, Scale & Observability Lead

Barclays; Knutsford; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Barclays is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to drive reliability, scalability, and performance across critical banking systems. The role combines hands-on SRE work with advanced programming and a drive to embed SRE maturity across diverse stakeholders.

The role emphasizes data-driven improvement, blameless retrospectives, and the ability to communicate complex systems effectively to varied audiences.

Qualifications

• Experience with SRE practices and programming for SRE maturity.
• Strong data-driven decision making and ability to measure improvements.
• Ability to communicate technical concepts to diverse audiences.

Responsibilities

• Build engineering: develop reliable infrastructure solutions with measurable reliability and performance.
• Incident management: monitor, identify, address, and resolve issues to reduce MTTR.
• Automation: develop automated tasks to improve efficiency and reduce manual work.
• Security: implement secure configurations to protect infrastructure.
• Teamwork: collaborate with product managers, architects and engineers to align IT infrastructure with business goals.
• Learning: keep up with industry trends and contribute to tech communities.

Skills

SRE practices

Programming skills

Fault analysis

Data-driven improvements

Technical communication

Observability

Mentoring/Teaching

Tools

Automation tools

Infrastructure-as-code

Cloud infrastructure

Job description

Barclays is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to drive reliability, scalability, and performance across critical banking systems. The role combines hands-on SRE work with advanced programming and a drive to embed SRE maturity across diverse stakeholders.

The role emphasizes data-driven improvement, blameless retrospectives, and the ability to communicate complex systems effectively to varied audiences.