Caching SRE

Barclays; Pune District; Sur place; INR 1 500 000 - 2 200 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Barclays in Pune is seeking a Caching SRE to drive reliability and innovation across our digital platforms. You will apply software engineering, automation, and best practices to ensure scalable, highly available services that power customer experiences.

You will operate Redis at scale, implement incident response playbooks, develop self-service tooling, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to continuously improve performance and resilience.

Qualifications

• Strong experience operating and troubleshooting Redis at scale.
• SRE background with reliability, incident management, observability, automation.
• Python for automation and operational workflows.

Responsabilités

• Ensure availability, performance, and scalability of systems and services.
• Respond to outages, perform root-cause analysis and preventive measures.
• Develop tools and scripts to automate operational processes.
• Monitor system performance, identify bottlenecks, and tune for performance.
• Collaborate with development teams to bake reliability into the SDLC.
• Stay informed of industry trends and contribute to tech communities.

Connaissances

Redis at scale

SRE fundamentals

Python automation

Outils

Kafka

AIOP

Observability tools

Description du poste

Join us as an Caching SRE 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 unapparelled customer experiences.
You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as experience with, skills to meet business requirement as well as job-specific skillsets.

To be successful as an Caching SRE, you should have experience with:

Essential Skills:

• Strong experience operating and troubleshooting Redis at scale, including Cluster, Replication, HA, Backup/Recovery, and Performance Tuning – ensuring high availability, performance optimisation, and rapid issue resolution across mission-critical environments
• Strong SRE background with expertise in service reliability, incident management, observability, automation, and operational excellence – driving platform stability, resilience, and continuous service improvement
• Strong Python programming skills for platform automation, self-service tooling, operational workflows, and service lifecycle management – enabling scalable automation and increased operational efficiency

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Working experience in financial domain.
• Experience with Kafka based event-driven architecture.
• Experience with AIOP process and methods.

This role is based out of Pune.

Purpose of the role

To apply software engineering techniques, automation, and best practices in incident response, to ensure the reliability, availability, and scalability of the systems, platforms, and technology through them.

Accountabilities

• 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.

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.

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.