Senior AWS Cloud Engineer: Secure, Scalable Cloud

barclays; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental and vision coverage

401(k)

Life insurance

Paid leave

Incentive award

Job summary

Barclays is seeking a Sr. AWS Cloud Engineer to design, deliver and secure scalable AWS solutions that empower business capabilities. You will drive cloud modernization, enable faster delivery and improve reliability across the organization.

The role focuses on enterprise-scale platforms, cross-functional collaboration, and adherence to secure coding and testing practices as part of a high-impact engineering team.

Qualifications

• Java & Spring development experience
• Microservices architecture experience
• AWS Cloud Services including MSK, EC2, Lambda, API Gateway, S3, DynamoDB
• Kafka or Webhooks & events streaming
• Observability practices with CloudWatch/Prometheus
• AI fundamentals in Agentic‑AI
• Exposure to financial domain processors TSYS/FDR/FIS

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and improve software using industry aligned languages, frameworks and tools.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers and engineers to define requirements and ensure alignment with business objectives.
• Participate in code reviews to promote code quality and knowledge sharing; adopt secure coding practices and unit testing.

Skills

Java & Spring

Microservices architecture

AWS Cloud Services

Kafka & Webhooks

CloudFormation

Observability (CloudWatch, Prometheus)

Agentic-AI fundamentals

Financial domain knowledge (TSYS/FDR/F

Job description

Barclays is seeking a Sr. AWS Cloud Engineer to design, deliver and secure scalable AWS solutions that empower business capabilities. You will drive cloud modernization, enable faster delivery and improve reliability across the organization.

The role focuses on enterprise-scale platforms, cross-functional collaboration, and adherence to secure coding and testing practices as part of a high-impact engineering team.