MicroFocus Analyst

1203 Barclays Global Serv. Cent; Pune District; On-site; INR 1,000,000 - 1,600,000; Full time

Job summary

Barclays is seeking a MicroFocus Analyst to drive evolution of our infra landscape from Pune. You will spearhead integration of Micro Focus suites, Windows administration, automation, and cloud-based support while ensuring high availability.

Collaboration with product managers, architects, and other engineers is essential in delivering reliable infrastructure aligned with business needs. The role emphasizes incident management, security, and continuous improvement, with opportunities to learn

Qualifications

• Experience with Windows system administration and scripting.
• Experience supporting a Windows-based production and development infrastructure.
• Hands-on experience with automation tools and Java.
• Familiarity with cloud environments and modern platforms.
• Ability to troubleshoot connectivity issues and assist users.

Responsibilities

• Build, deliver, and maintain infrastructure solutions ensuring reliability, performance, and availability.
• Monitor IT infrastructure and performance; identify, address, and resolve outages or vulnerabilities.
• Develop and implement automated tasks to improve efficiency and reduce manual intervention.
• Implement secure configurations to protect hardware, software and data.
• Collaborate with product managers, architects, and engineers to define IT infrastructure requirements and ensure alignment with business goals.
• Stay informed of technology trends and contribute to technical communities.

Skills

Micro Focus

Rocket Enterprise

Verastream

Reflection

OpenText

Mainframe

Windows admin

Scripting

Automation tools

Java

Cloud computing

Incident mgmt

Tools

MQ

Autosys

DB2 Client

Job description

Job Description 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: Development, delivery, and maintenance of high-quality infrastructure solutions to fulfil business requirements ensuring measurable reliability, performance, availability, and ease of use. Including the identification of the appropriate technologies and solutions to meet business, optimisation, and resourcing requirements. Incident Management: Monitoring of IT infrastructure and system performance to measure, identify, address, and resolve any potential issues, vulnerabilities, or outages. Use of data to drive down mean time to resolution. Automation: Development and implementation of automated tasks and processes to improve efficiency and reduce manual intervention, utilising software scripting/coding disciplines. Security: Implementation of a secure configuration and measures to protect infrastructure against cyber-attacks, vulnerabilities, and other security threats, including protection of hardware, software, and data from unauthorised access. Teamwork: Cross-functional collaboration with product managers, architects, and other engineers to define IT Infrastructure requirements, devise solutions, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives via a data driven approach. Learning: 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.

Join us as a MicroFocus Analyst at Barclays

Join us as a MicroFocus Analyst 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 a MicroFocus Analyst, you should have experience with: Essential Skills: Familiar with vendor technologies – Micro Focus\Rocket Enterprise suites, Verastream, Reflection, Windows, OpenText, Mainframe. Hands on experience in Windows system administration and scripting knowledge. Hands on experience supporting a Windows based production and development infrastructure. Hands on experience in automation tools and java expertise. Experience in supporting applications in the Cloud environment. Prepared to work directly with users troubleshooting connectivity issues via email, chat, or ticketing system Provide continuous monitoring and maintenance of applications and infrastructures to ensure critical host-based and core business applications remain accessible, secure, and fully integrated with modern platforms Able to communicate effectively with users from different countries and management levels Demonstrate expertise in problem solving such as writing code or scripts to scale down reported problems into discrete components that replicate issues. Experience with working with vendors. Possess high level analytic skills to review logs, dumps and traces to determine if reported issues are user error, expected behaviour or bugs. Experience supporting 24x7 HA production environment. Provide Weekend/On-Call work for repetitive tasks such as patching, server reboots, certificate renewals, supporting software upgrades (MQ, Autosys, DB2 Client), DCR tests Some other highly valued skills may include below: Work on Incident Management, Problem Management, Change Management (IPC) Willing to learn COBOL, CICS and SQL programming languages. This role is based out of Pune. Our Work Experience is the combination of everything that's unique about us: our culture, our core values, our company meetings, our commitment to sustainability, our recognition programs, but most importantly, it's our people. Our employees are self-disciplined, hard working, curious, trustworthy, humble, and truthful. They make choices according to what is best for the team, they live for opportunities to collaborate and make a difference, and they make us the #1 Top Workplace in the area.