Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) / DevOps Engineer / Production/Operations Engineer

Join Barclays as a Site Reliability Engineer, where you'll leverage automation, software engineering, and operational excellence to ensure our critical platforms remain resilient, available, and ready to support millions of customers every day.

We are looking for engineers who are passionate about eliminating manual effort, automating operational processes, improving platform reliability, and building scalable solutions through code. This role is ideal for someone with a strong automation mindset, excellent scripting skills, and experience managing complex enterprise environments.

 

To be successful as a Site Reliability Engineer, you should have experience with:

• Good Python development skills for automation, tooling, operational engineering, and reliability improvement initiatives.
• Hands-on experience with Ansible for configuration management, infrastructure automation, deployment orchestration, and operational runbook automation.
• Experience developing automated solutions to improve availability, reduce operational overhead, and enhance platform reliability.
• Proficiency in Linux/Unix environments and Bash/Shell scripting.
• Good understanding of CI/CD principles and automated deployment pipelines.
• Experience with monitoring, observability, alerting, and operational telemetry platforms.
• Good troubleshooting and problem-solving skills with the ability to perform root cause analysis and incident remediation.
• Experience working in Agile teams using Jira and related delivery practices.
• Understanding of Site Reliability Engineering principles, including reliability engineering, operational excellence, capacity planning, resilience, and service availability.

 

Some other highly valued skills may help:

• Experience administering enterprise database platforms such as Oracle.
• Knowledge of Oracle Database architecture, PL/SQL.
• Experience with enterprise observability platforms such as Splunk, Elastic, Observe, Grafana, Prometheus.
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code and platform engineering practices.

 

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

 

The location of your role is Knutsford.