CCR Environment Management

Job Description

Purpose of the role:
To build and maintain infrastructure platforms and products that support applications and data systems, using hardware, software, networks, and cloud computing platforms as required with the aim of ensuring that the infrastructure is reliable, scalable, and secure. Ensure the reliability, availability, and scalability of the systems, platforms, and technology through the application of software engineering techniques, automation, and best practices in incident response.

• Build Engineering: Development, delivery, and maintenance of high‑quality infrastructure solutions to fulfil business requirements ensuring measurable reliability, performance, availability, and ease of use, including identification of the appropriate technologies and solutions to meet business, optimisation and resourcing requirements.
• Incident Management: Monitoring of IT infrastructure and system performance to measure, identify, address, and resolve any potential issues, vulnerabilities or outages; use of data to drive down mean time to resolution.
• Automation: Development and implementation of automated tasks and processes to improve efficiency and reduce manual intervention, utilising software scripting/coding disciplines.
• Security: Implementation of a secure configuration and measures to protect infrastructure against cyber‑attacks, vulnerabilities and other security threats, including protection of hardware, software and data from unauthorised access.
• Teamwork: Cross‑functional collaboration with product managers, architects and other engineers to define IT infrastructure requirements, devise solutions and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives via a data‑driven approach.
• Learning: 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.

• To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness.
• Collaborate closely with other functions/business divisions.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well‑developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver work that impacts the whole business function.
• Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, including appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes.
• Demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.
• Or for an individual contributor: lead collaborative assignments, guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation, identify new directions for assignments and/or projects, and consult on complex issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk, develop new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda, and take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls related to the work done.
• Communicate complex information and influence stakeholders to achieve outcomes.
• Demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship and the Barclays Mindset to Empower, Challenge and Drive.

• Work with technical leads and developers to understand IT applications architecture and business logic, and contribute to deployment and integration strategies.
• Responsible for Environment Management functions by building new IT environments and refreshing existing ones.
• Participate in development and testing of new release candidates, assisting in diagnosis and resolution of defects found during SIT and UAT test phases.
• Contribute to the design of Dev Ops processes, including automated build, release, deployments and monitoring, using complex IT tools and technologies to reduce the overall time to market.
• Contribute to delivery of complex projects in collaboration with global teams across Barclays to develop new or enhance existing systems.
• Create daily releases for the…