Job Description
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 implementation of 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.
Keeping informed of industry technology trends and innovations, and actively contributing to the organisation’s technology communities to foster a culture of technical excellence and growth.
Expectations
To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness.
Collaboration 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 to pursue those objectives, appraise performance relative to objectives and determine reward outcomes.
If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver consistently excellent results. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.
OR, for an individual contributor, lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments, identify new directions for assignments and/or projects, and combine cross‑functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
Consult on complex issues, providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
Identify ways to mitigate risk and develop new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls related to the work performed.
Perform work closely related to that of other areas, requiring understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of organisational sub‑function objectives.
Collaborate with other areas of work to keep up to speed with business activity and strategy.
Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple internal and external sources to solve problems creatively and effectively.
Communicate complex information, including information that is sensitive or difficult to convey, and influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.
Role Summary
Join Barclays as a Site Reliability Engineer, responsible for planning, coordinating, executing, and communicating work related to all SRE aspects of our systematic trading algorithms, and making a significant positive impact on revenue generation within the Equity Derivatives business.
Required Experience & Skills
- 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.
- Experience with Market Data (Real‑time and Historical, TREP or FPGA).
- Experience with Order Management Systems and Protocols (FIX).
- Knowledge of Data Streaming technologies such as KDB/q, Kafka and Solace.
Additional Skills (Highly Valued)
- 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.
Location
This role is based in London.
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