Senior Site Reliability Engineer CIAM

Overview

Join us as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer for CIAM at Barclays, where you will bring to life a new digital platform capability, transforming and modernizing our digital estate to build a market-leading digital offering with customer experience at its heart. This is an exciting and key role, partnering with business-aligned engineering and product teams to ensure a collaborative team culture is at the heart of what we do.

To be successful as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you should have:

• Experience in designing, implementing, deploying, and running highly available, fault-tolerant, auto-scaling, and auto-healing systems
• Considerable expertise in AWS (essential), with Azure and GCP as a plus, including Kubernetes (ECS is essential; Fargate and GCE are a plus) and serverless architectures
• Considerable experience in running disaster recovery and zero-downtime solutions, and in designing and implementing continuous delivery across large-scale, distributed, cloud-based microservice and API service solutions with 99.9%+ uptime
• Hands-on experience coding in Python, Bash, and JSON/YAML (configuration as code)
• The ability to drive reliability best practices across engineering teams, embed SRE principles into the Dev Sec Ops  lifecycle, and partner with engineering, security, and product teams to balance reliability and feature velocity

• Experience in hands-on configuration, deployment and operation of Forge Rock COTS based IAM solutions (Ping Gateway, PingAM, PingIDM, PingDS) with embedded security gates
• HTTP header signing, access token and data at rest encryption, PKI based self-sovereign identity, or open source

• 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.

• This role is in our Whippany, NJ office.
• Minimum Salary: $170,000
• Maximum Salary: $230,000
• The minimum and maximum salary/rate information above includes only base salary or base hourly rate. It does not include any other type of compensation or benefits that may be available.
• Barclays employees are eligible for a suite of a competitive and generous employee benefits, including medical, dental and vision coverage, 401(k), life insurance, and other paid leave for qualifying circumstances.
• This position is eligible for an incentive award.

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.

• 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.

• 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.