Network Security Operations Lead

1203 Barclays Global Serv. Cent; Pune District; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Barclays is seeking a Network Security Operations Lead in Pune to guide security operations and drive technical excellence. You will lead engineering teams, ensure reliable delivery, and collaborate with product managers, designers, and stakeholders to craft secure, scalable solutions.

The role emphasizes strong networking skills, incident management, automation with Python/Ansible, and governance to meet regulatory and internal controls, while fostering innovation and a high-performance culture.

Qualifications

• Strong network fundamentals & troubleshooting across security products and edge services.
• Production operations leadership with incident reviews and reliability focus.
• Breadth of network tech including Firewalls, NAC, IDS, Proxy and DNS tools.
• Ability to gatekeep changes, manage risk, and align with audit requirements.
• Practical automation and scripting using Python and Ansible to improve reliability.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering teams, oversee timelines, risks, and prioritization.
• Mentor engineers, conduct reviews, and drive performance improvements.
• Collaborate with partners to translate requirements into scalable architectures.
• Enforce standards, support peer reviews, and implement robust testing.

Skills

Network fundamentals

Troubleshooting

Incident management

Python

Ansible

Firewall knowledge

NAC/IDS/DNS

Cloud networking

Automation

Tools

Firewalls

NAC

IDS

Proxy

DNS

Terraform

AWS

Azure

Job description

Job Description Purpose of the role

To lead and manage engineering teams, providing technical guidance, mentorship, and support to ensure the delivery of high-quality software solutions, driving technical excellence, fostering a culture of innovation, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to align technical decisions with business objectives.

Accountabilities

Lead engineering teams effectively, fostering a collaborative and high-performance culture to achieve project goals and meet organizational objectives. Oversee timelines, team allocation, risk management and task prioritization to ensure the successful delivery of solutions within scope, time, and budget. Mentor and support team members' professional growth, conduct performance reviews, provide actionable feedback, and identify opportunities for improvement. Evaluation and enhancement of engineering processes, tools, and methodologies to increase efficiency, streamline workflows, and optimize team productivity. Collaboration with business partners, product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions and ensure a cohesive approach to product development. Enforcement of technology standards, facilitate peer reviews, and implement robust testing practices to ensure the delivery of high-quality solutions.

Vice President Expectations

To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and elevate breaches of policies/procedures.. If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department's future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements.. 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 be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions.. Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment. Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda. Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does. Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business. Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies. Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions. Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes. Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills 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 an “Network Security Operations Lead" 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 “Network Security Operations Lead", you should have experience with:

Basic/ Essential Qualifications:

Strong network fundamentals & troubleshooting: Expert-level diagnosis across network security products and edge services; packet-level analysis; confident decision-making under pressure. Production operations & reliability: Incident/problem management leadership, post-incident reviews, error budgeting / SLO thinking (where used), and designing controls to prevent recurrence. Network technology breadth: Solid capability across Firewalls, NAC, IDS, Proxy and DNS and associated tooling. Change governance & risk: Proven ability to gatekeep and execute production change safely; strong understanding of regulated controls, audit requirements, and change/incident processes. Automation & scripting: Practical experience using Python and/or Ansible (and related tooling) to automate operational tasks, reduce toil, validate configurations, and improve reliability at scale.

Desirable skillsets/ good to have:

Reliability engineering & observability: Experience defining operational KPIs/SLOs, improving monitoring/alert quality, reducing noise, and driving proactive prevention. Advanced automation & IaC: Experience with CI/CD patterns for network change, configuration management, testing/validation, and infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform) where applicable. Hybrid & cloud networking: Working knowledge of cloud connectivity and hybrid patterns (AWS/Azure), including operational troubleshooting across on-prem and cloud. Vendor/service integration: Experience managing vendor-led delivery with strong operational guardrails, knowledge transfer, and measurable outcomes. Operational excellence leadership: Recognised Tier-4 escalation SME who drives sustained operational improvement through data, controls, and disciplined execution.

Location

This role is based out of Pune.

Company Culture

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.