Resilience Recovery Engineer - Software

Barclays; Pune District; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 3,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Barclays is seeking an experienced Resilience Recovery Engineer - Software to join the Resilience Operations team in Pune. You will design, develop and maintain cyber resilience tooling on a distributed microservices platform across multi-infrastructure environments.

You will mentor peers, own key architectural decisions, and collaborate with security, infrastructure and application teams to strengthen the bank's resilience posture and recovery capabilities.

Qualifications

• Experience with front-end frameworks (React/Angular) in enterprise apps.
• Go backend development with REST API design and integration.
• Experience configuring and using GitLab CI/CD pipelines.
• Hands-on with container platforms (Kubernetes/OpenShift) and ops

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain and evolve resilience recovery tooling for multi‑infrastructure environments.
• Collaborate with security, infrastructure and application teams to reduce recovery times.
• Own architectural decisions, mentor peers and contribute to platform scalability and reliability.
• Design and implement secure coding practices and unit tests.

Skills

React/Angular

Go backend REST

GitLab CI/CD

Kubernetes/OpenShift

Job description

We are seeking an experienced Resilience Recovery Engineer - Software to join the Resilience Operations team, working alongside CTO Platform Engineering. In this role, you will design, develop, and maintain cyber resilience and recovery tooling that enables teams across Barclays to autonomously manage protection and recovery operations. You'll work on a distributed microservices platform that orchestrates complex workflows across multi-infrastructure environments, integrates with enterprise governance systems, and handles real-time event streaming and state management. You will partner with infrastructure teams, security teams, and application owners to deliver solutions that reduce recovery times, improve operational efficiency, and strengthen the bank's overall resilience posture. As a senior engineer, you'll own key architectural decisions, mentor team members, and contribute to evolving our platform's scalability, reliability, and security.

To be successful as a Resilience Recovery Engineer - Software , you should have experience in:

• React or Angular front-end development (responsive, accessible UIs).
• Go backend development, including REST API design and service integration.
• GitLab CI/CD pipelines (build, test, scan, deploy automation).
• Containerised applications on Kubernetes/OpenShift (deploy, run, troubleshoot).

Some other highly valued skills include:

• TypeScript and modern front-end tooling and patterns.
• API security and integration: OAuth2/OIDC/JWT, mTLS; data stores and messaging.
• Helm and Infrastructure as Code, monitoring and logging.
• Being a thought leader and innovator with experience in cloud and containerisation technologies.
• Proven track record of delivering transformation at scale, moving legacy applications to cloud native micro-services architecture.

You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in role, as the risk and controls, communication skills and interaction with a diverse range of stakeholders, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role is based out of Pune.

Purpose of the role

To design, develop and improve software, utilising various engineering methodologies, that provides business, platform, and technology capabilities for our customers and colleagues.

Accountabilities

• Development and delivery of high-quality software solutions by using industry aligned programming languages, frameworks, and tools. Ensuring that code is scalable, maintainable, and optimized for performance.
• Cross-functional collaboration with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define software requirements, devise solution strategies, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives.
• Collaboration with peers, participate in code reviews, and promote a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing.
• 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.
• Adherence to secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities, protect sensitive data, and ensure secure software solutions.
• Implementation of effective unit testing practices to ensure proper code design, readability, and reliability.

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.