Production Engineer Glasgow, Scotland
Job description
Production Engineer
Glasgow
As a Barclays Production Engineer, you will be joining Group Technology Service Management (GTSM) team within Technology area. In your new role, you will be instrumental in implementing and using a hybrid of development and operation skills to collaborate across disciplines by 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 – helping millions of individuals and businesses thrive, and creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted.
Working Flexibly
We’re 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’ and clients’ needs. Whether you have family commitments or you’re 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’re 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.
• Establishing an SRE practice/discipline within Corporate GTSM
- Driving the agenda throughout the department whilst supporting the wider team objectives
- Reducing MTTR throughout the department (Mean Time to Repair) to improve stability
- Being consistently excellent at all we do and driving this mindset throughout the department, by making everything we touch better
- Driving Full Stack Observability throughout the department and being a role model on how this can be used to achieve our objectives and reduce MTTR
- Driving the adoption of Automation and being a role model to drive efficiencies, consistency, reduce MTTR and achieve our objectives
- Driving technical excellence and accountability of the full stack that makes up our services
- Driving ownership of the full stack that makes up our services
• Practical experience of supporting 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 and of CI/CD Pipelines and Repositories, for example Jenkins and GitHub
• SRE or DevOps model experience, however if you don’t have experience but do have a passion and willingness to learn of what it means, we would still love to hear from you
- Ability to work in large, collaborative teams to achieve organizational goals
- Ability to construct SQL queries and interrogate databases
- 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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