Join us as a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - Identity Access Management. You will be bringing to life a new digital platform capability, transforming and modernising our digital estate to build a market-leading digital offering with customer experience at its heart. You will be partnering with business aligned engineering and product teams, to ensure a collaborative team culture is at the heart of what we do.

To Be Successful In This Role You Should Have

Experience in designing, implementing, deploying, and running highly available, fault-tolerant, auto-scaling and auto-healing systems.
Strong expertise in AWS (essential), (Azure, and GCP (Google cloud platform) is a plus), including Kubernetes (ECS is essential, Fargate and GCE is a plus) and server-less architectures.
Strong experience in running disaster recovery, zero downtime solutions and in designing and implementing continuous delivery across large-scale, distributed, cloud-based micro service and API service solutions with 99.9%+ uptime.
Hands-on experience coding in Python, Bash and JSON/Yaml (Configuration as Code).
The ability to drive reliability best practices across engineering teams, embed SRE principles into the DevSecOps lifecycle and partner with engineering, security and product teams, to balance reliability and feature velocity.

Some Other Highly Desirable Skills Include

Experience in hands-on configuration, deployment and operation of ForgeRock COTS based IAM (Identity Access management) solutions (PingGateway, PingAM, PingIDM, PingDS) with embedded security gates, HTTP header signing, access token and data at rest encryption, PKI based self-sovereign identity, or open source.

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

This role will be based out of our Pune office.

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 implement 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, identify and address bottlenecks, and implement best practices for performance tuning.
Collaboration with development teams to integrate best practices for reliability, scalability, and performance into the software development lifecycle, and work closely with other teams to ensure smooth and efficient operations.
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.

Vice President Expectations

To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures..
If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department's future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements..
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 to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others..
OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..
Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.
Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - Identity Access Management IAM