SRE Lead – Messaging

Barclays UK; Knutsford; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking an SRE Lead to drive innovation in their digital landscape. In this pivotal role, you'll leverage cutting-edge technology to enhance customer experiences and ensure the reliability and scalability of systems. You'll be responsible for developing infrastructure solutions, implementing best practices, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. This position offers an exciting opportunity to lead the charge in automation and incident management, making a significant impact on the organization's success. Join a team that values respect, integrity, and excellence, and be part of a forward-thinking environment that fosters growth and technical excellence.

Benefits

Health insurance

Pension scheme

Flexible working hours

Professional development opportunities

Employee discounts

Work-life balance initiatives

Qualifications

• Experience in managing messaging and streaming products.
• Strong background in implementing DevOps tools and practices.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain high-quality infrastructure solutions.
• Monitor IT infrastructure and system performance for issues.

Skills

Messaging/Streaming products - Kafka

Messaging/Streaming products - IBM MQ

Messaging/Streaming products - IBM IIB/ACE

DevOps tools - Ansible

DevOps tools - Chef

DevOps tools - Kubernetes

DevOps tools - GitLab

DevOps tools - Jenkins

SRE logging & Monitoring Tools - ELK stack

SRE logging & Monitoring Tools - Grafana

SRE logging & Monitoring Tools - Prometheus

SRE logging & Monitoring Tools - Open Telemetry

Programming languages - Java

Programming languages - Python

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Relevant certifications in SRE or DevOps

Tools

ELK stack

Grafana

Prometheus

Kubernetes

GitLab

Jenkins

Job description

Join us as an SRE Lead – Messaging at Barclays, where you'll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. You'll harness cutting-edge technology to revolutionise our digital offerings, ensuring unparalleled customer experiences.

To be successful as an SRE Lead – Messaging, you should have experience with:

• Messaging/Streaming products - Kafka, IBM MQ, IBM IIB/ACE
• DevOps tools - Ansible, Chef, Kubernetes, GitLab, Jenkins
• SRE logging & Monitoring Tools - ELK stack, Grafana, Prometheus, Open Telemetry
• Programming languages: Java, Python
• Establishing SLOs and SLIs, ensuring adherence, and promoting the culture of SRE practices to continuously measure, improve, and respond to incidents, including conducting post-mortems to prevent future issues.

Other highly valued skills include:

• Developing and enforcing SRE best practices and principles.
• Collaborating with development teams to build scalable and resilient systems.
• Aligning cross-functional teams on priorities and deliverables.
• Driving automation to enhance operational efficiency.

This role will be based out of our Knutsford campus.

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: Develop, deliver, and maintain high-quality infrastructure solutions to fulfil business requirements, ensuring measurable reliability, performance, availability, and ease of use. Identify appropriate technologies and solutions to meet business, optimisation, and resourcing requirements.
• Incident Management: Monitor IT infrastructure and system performance to identify, address, and resolve issues, vulnerabilities, or outages. Use data to reduce mean time to resolution.
• Automation: Develop and implement automated tasks and processes to improve efficiency and reduce manual intervention, utilising scripting and coding disciplines.
• Security: Implement secure configurations and measures to protect infrastructure against cyber threats, vulnerabilities, and other security risks, including protection of hardware, software, and data from unauthorised access.
• Teamwork: Collaborate with product managers, architects, and engineers to define IT infrastructure requirements, devise solutions, and ensure seamless integration aligned with business objectives via a data-driven approach.
• Learning: Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations, and contribute to the organization's technology communities to foster a culture of technical excellence and growth.

Vice President Expectations

• Contribute to or set strategy, drive requirements, and recommend changes. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies and processes; deliver continuous improvements, and escalate breaches of policies/procedures.
• Manage teams by defining roles and responsibilities, planning for future needs, counselling on performance, and contributing to pay decisions. Lead specialists to influence operations, balance short and long-term goals, and ensure budgets and schedules meet requirements.
• Demonstrate leadership behaviors to create an environment for colleagues to thrive, following the LEAD principles: Listen, Energise, Align, Develop.
• For individual contributors, serve as a subject matter expert, guide technical direction, lead assignments, and mentor less experienced team members.
• Advise stakeholders on functional and cross-functional impacts and alignment.
• Manage and mitigate risks, demonstrating accountability for controls and governance.
• Show understanding of organizational functions to support business goals.
• Collaborate across areas to stay aligned with business strategies.
• Create solutions through sophisticated analysis and research, comparing complex alternatives.
• Build and maintain trusting relationships with stakeholders to achieve business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills.

All colleagues are expected to embody the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, and Stewardship, and demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – Empower, Challenge, and Drive.