Senior Blockchain DevOps Engineer - AVP – Digital Assets

Embark on a transformative journey as a Senior Blockchain Dev Ops Engineer - AVP – Digital Assets.

At Barclays, our vision is clear –to redefine the future of banking and help craft innovative  this role, you will join a team working at the ground floor of a 0-to-1 build. You will help build and operate the Dev Ops, automation, deployment, and observability capabilities that support Barclays’ next-generation Digital Assets Platform (BDAP). This role will, you will focus on enabling secure, reliable, and scalable delivery of blockchain infrastructure and institutional wallet services that support tokenized deposits, digital cash, stable coins, tokenized securities, and other regulated digital asset use cases across open and permissioned networks.

You will work closely with blockchain engineers, wallet engineers, security teams, infrastructure, architecture, risk, and operations to automate deployments, strengthen production readiness, improve observability, and ensure platform components can be delivered and operated safely within a highly controlled banking environment.

To be successful as a Senior Blockchain Dev Ops Engineer - AVP – Digital Assets, you should:

• Have experience building and operating Dev Ops capabilities for mission-critical production platforms, including CI/CD, release automation, environment management, infrastructure automation, and production deployment support

• Demonstrate hands-on experience deploying and operating blockchain infrastructure and wallet services, including validators, RPC services, bootnodes, transaction relayers, signing services, wallet APIs, and supporting middleware components

• Have practical expertise operating platforms within controlled on-premises and hybrid environments, including network segmentation, secrets management, certificate and PKI lifecycle management, firewall controls, infrastructure hardening, and secure service connectivity

• Be comfortable implementing end-to-end observability across blockchain and wallet service components, including metrics, logs, traces, transaction monitoring, node health, chain synchronization, signing workflows, service dashboards, and automated alerting

• Apply AI-assisted engineering, Dev Sec Ops , and automation practices to improve deployment quality, accelerate troubleshooting, reduce operational risk, enhance release consistency, and support continuous improvement across BDAP delivery teams

Other highly valued skills include:

• Experience supporting Ethereum, Solana, Besu, and other blockchain technologies, including node lifecycle management, protocol upgrades, chain-data storage performance, validator operations, and multi-chain platform support

• Knowledge of institutional wallet infrastructure, transaction authorization flows, signing services, key management integrations, custody workflows, and digital asset transaction orchestration

• Experience with Kubernetes, containers, Linux, Infrastructure-as-Code, configuration management, artifact repositories, API gateways, event streaming, and enterprise platform engineering patterns

• Understanding of digital asset use cases including tokenized deposits, stable coins, digital cash, securities tokenization, wallet-driven settlement, and interoperability across open and permissioned networks

• Ability to work effectively across blockchain engineering, wallet engineering, cyber security, infrastructure, architecture, operations, risk, compliance, and business teams to deliver secure, observable, and resilient platform capabilities

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in this role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role is located in our Whippany, NJ office.

Minimum Salary: $120,000

Maximum Salary: $175,000

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 competitive and generous employee benefits, including medical, dental and vision coverage,…