Site Reliability Engineer -VP

Barclays is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to join its Securitized Products team within the Markets organization. This role focuses on improving the reliability, scalability, and performance of critical Securitized Products systems through automation, and engineering practices. You will apply software engineering, automation, and incident, change and best practices to ensure the reliability, availability, and scalability of Barclays technology platforms. You will act as a subject‑matter specialist for SRE practices, partnering with infrastructure and engineering teams to embed reliability into platforms across cloud, on-prem, compute, storage, networking, and databases.

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

• Programming or scripting experience (Python, Go, Power Shell, Bash, or similar) and SQL
• Linux/Unix/Windows systems and systems engineering fundamentals
• Client-server model architecture and scalability knowledge monitoring high traffic by distributing load across multiple backend servers.
• Performance monitoring and reducing latency in request-response cycles.
• Containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes);
  Networking (TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, SFTP) and relational databases; and monitoring and observability tools (Geneos ITRS, Prometheus, Grafana, APM, Observe)

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Communication skills with the ability to influence teams and drive adoption of SRE practices
• Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Ability to troubleshoot multi-faceted, distributed systems with contending priorities
• Trading floor support experience and basic understanding of Securitized Products business
• Implementing redundancy, such as server clustering and failover mechanisms, to reduce application downtime and improve recovery time goals

This role is located in Whippany, NJ office.

Minimum Salary: $170, 000

Maximum Salary: $230, 000

The minimum and maximum salary/rate information above include 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 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 design, develop and improve software, utilising various engineering methodologies, that provides business, platform, and technology capabilities for our customers and colleagues.

• 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.