Site Reliability Engineer

Join Barclays as a Site Reliability Engineer, where you will be responsible for planning, coordinating, executing, and communicating work related to all SRE aspects of our systematic trading algorithms, making a significant positive impact on revenue generation within the Equity Derivatives business.

To Be Successful, You Should Have

• Experience in DevOps and DataOps, using Site Engineering Reliability (SRE) best practices
• Expertise in Linux in an Enterprise setting (scheduling, networking, security, monitoring)
• Expertise in Python and Bash programming for task automation

Some Other Highly Valued Skills May Include

• Experience with Market Data (Real-time and Historical, TREP or FPGA)
• Experience with Order Management Systems and Protocols (FIX)
• Knowledge of Data Streaming technologies like KDB/q, Kafka and Solace

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

This role is based in London.

Purpose of the role

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.

Accountabilities

• 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 implementing 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, identifying and addressing bottlenecks, and implementing best practices for performance tuning.
• Collaboration with development teams to integrate best practices for reliability, scalability, and performance into the software development lifecycle, and working closely with other teams to ensure smooth and efficient operations.
• Staying informed of industry technology trends and innovations, and actively contributing to the organization’s technology communities to foster a culture of technical excellence and growth.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness, collaborating closely with other functions and business divisions.
• Leading a team performing complex tasks, using well-developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver work that impacts the whole business function. Setting objectives and coaching employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraising performance relative to objectives, and determining reward outcomes.
• For individuals with leadership responsibilities, demonstrating a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver consistently excellent standards. The four LEAD behaviours are: Listen and be authentic, Energise and inspire, Align across the enterprise, and Develop others.
• For an individual contributor, leading collaborative assignments and guiding team members through structured assignments, identifying the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments, and identifying a combination of cross‑functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
• Consulting on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
• Identifying ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies and procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Taking ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls related to the work done.
• Performing work that is closely related to that of other areas, requiring understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of organisational sub‑function objectives.
• Collaborating with other areas of work, for business‑aligned support and keeping up to speed with business activity and strategy.
• Engaging in complex analysis of data from multiple sources, internal and external, to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicating complex information, including sensitive or difficult information to stakeholders.
• Influencing or convincing stakeholders to achieve outcomes.

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