Job Description

Production Engineer
Glasgow

As a Barclays Production Engineer you will be joining Global Technology Services Management within Technology area. In your new role you will use a hybrid of development and operate skills to collaborate across disciplines, applying software engineering principles to eliminate repeated manual effort (Toil) and create automated, scalable and reliable services.

Barclays is one of the world\'s largest and most respected financial institutions, with 329 years of success, quality and innovation behind us. We offer careers that provide endless opportunity \xe2\x80\x93 helping millions of individuals and businesses thrive, and creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted.

Working Flexibly
We\xe2\x80\x99re committed to providing a supportive and inclusive culture and environment for you to work in. This environment recognises and supports ways to balance your personal needs, alongside the professional needs of our business. Providing the opportunity for all our employees, globally to work flexibly empowers each of us to work in a way that suits our lives as well as enabling us to better service our customers\xe2\x80\x99 and clients\xe2\x80\x99 needs. Whether you have family commitments or you\xe2\x80\x99re a carer, or whether you need study time or wish to pursue personal interests, our approach to working flexibly is designed to help you balance your life. If you would like some flexibility, then please discuss this with the hiring manager, and your request will be reviewed subject to business needs.

We are currently in the early stages of implementing a hybrid working environment, which means that many colleagues spend part of their working hours at home and part in the office, depending on the nature of the role they are in. We\xe2\x80\x99re flexible on how this works and it may continue to change and evolve. Depending on your team, typically this means that colleagues spend a minimum of between 20% to 60% of their time in the office, which could be over a week, a month or a quarter. However, some colleagues may choose to spend more time in the office over a typical period than their role type requires. We also have a flexible working process where, subject to business needs, all colleagues globally are able to request work patterns to reflect their personal circumstances. Please discuss the detail of the working pattern options for the role with the hiring manager.

What will you be doing?

• Establishing a SRE practice/discipline within Corporate GTSM
• Driving the agenda throughout the department whilst assisting the wider team objectives
• Reducing MTTR throughout the department (Mean Time to Repair) and improving stability
• Being consistently excellent at all we do and helping to drive this mindset throughout the department \xe2\x80\x93 Make everything we touch better
• Driving Full Stack Observability throughout the department and role model how this can be used to achieve our objectives
• Driving the adoption of Automation and help to role model how this can be used to drive efficiencies, consistency
• Reducing MTTR and achieve our objectives
• Driving technical excellence and accountability/ownership of the full stack that makes up our services

What we\xe2\x80\x99re looking for:

• Practical experience of assisting and maintaining production environments with distributed systems and highly available services
• Working knowledge of IT Infrastructure components (for example Linux or Windows Server OS, MS SQL or Oracle Databases, Networks, Load Balancers, Storage)
• Practical experience of Observability/Monitoring solutions (such as AppDynamics, Thousand Eyes, Splunk, ELK or similar)
• Working knowledge of modern programming languages like Java and Python. Understanding of CI/CD Pipelines and Repositories, for example Jenkins and GitHub

Skills that will help you in the role:

• Solid experience of working in either a SRE or DevOps model would be desirable
• Exposure to working in large, collaborative teams to achieve organizational goals
• Exposure to constructing SQL queries and interrogate databases
• Solid knowledge of software skills such as design, development, maintenance, testing and software improvement

Where will you be working?
Our new state-of-the-art Campus, right in the heart of Glasgow is a hub of creative collaboration. A place where everyone can bring their true selves to work and reach their full potential. Home to 5,000 of our colleagues, our Tradeston campus will support the community in more ways than one - by creating thousands of new career opportunities and celebrating local artists. A short walk from Central Station on the south of the Clyde, it will be a key location for the Barclays business that will deepen our ties with the city and its communities.

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