Senior Caching SRE

Join Barclays as a Senior Caching SRE and play a pivotal role in delivering highly reliable, scalable, and resilient caching platforms that support critical business services. You will drive operational excellence, enhance system performance, and automate platform capabilities while ensuring exceptional service availability across a complex enterprise environment.

 

To be successful as a Senior Caching SRE, you should have experience with:

 

• Strong experience operating and troubleshooting Redis at scale, including Cluster, Replication, HA, Backup/Recovery, and Performance Tuning – ensuring high availability, performance optimisation, and rapid issue resolution across mission-critical environments

• Practical experience deploying and operating applications on Kubernetes/OpenShift, including deployments, upgrades, scaling, and troubleshooting in a production environment – ensuring stable and scalable platform operations

• Strong SRE background with expertise in service reliability, incident management, observability, automation, and operational excellence – driving platform stability, resilience, and continuous service improvement

• Strong Python programming skills for platform automation, self-service tooling, operational workflows, and service lifecycle management – enabling scalable automation and increased operational efficiency

 

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Working experience in financial domain

• Experience with Kafka based event-driven architecture

• Experience with AIOP process and methods

 

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 is based in Knutsford