Senior Site Reliability Engineer - AVP - Credit Trade Floor

Embark on a transformative journey as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer - AVP - Credit Trade Floor. At Barclays, our vision is clear –to redefine the future of banking and help craft innovative solutions. You will join the IB Credit SRE team, applying reliability engineering principles in day-to-day delivery to improve reliability, stability and availability of trading platforms. You will collaborate closely with technology and infrastructure teams across the organization to ensure a high-quality service for the Credit Trading and Sales desks.

To be successful as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer - AVP - Credit Trade Floor, you should have:

• Demonstrated ability to manage incidents effectively, including rapid troubleshooting, solution-oriented stakeholder communication, and conducting root cause analysis (RCA) to prevent recurrence
• Considerable expertise in systems engineering, with deep knowledge of Operating systems like Windows, Linux, Networking fundamentals Container orchestration Kubernetes, Cloud platforms experience AWS and Azure. Automation using Python for scaling system reliability and operational efficiency
• Confirmed capability to approach complex problems methodically, analyze issues, and implement effective solutions to maintain high system reliability and performance
• Practical experience in implementing monitoring, alerting, and observability frameworks for critical platforms, tools such as ITRS Geneos. Automation of manual operational processes to improve efficiency and reduce risk
• Solid experience working with databases and SQL, supporting troubleshooting, data analysis, and system performance optimization

Other highly valued skills include:

• Prior experience supporting Credit or other Investment Banking (IB) asset classes, including Rates, Equities, or FX, with an understanding of trading workflows and time-sensitive environments
• Experience working with IaaS and/or PaaS solutions, along with practical exposure to Virtualization technologies, containerization tools Docker, Orchestration platforms Kubernetes, Compute, network, and storage infrastructure management
• Familiarity with or working knowledge of Generative AI tools, with the ability to leverage them for automation, analysis, or operational efficiency
• Good communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to effectively engage and collaborate with senior business and technology stakeholders

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

This role is located in our New York, NY office.

Minimum Salary: $ 115,000

Maximum Salary: $ 160,000

The minimum and maximum salary/rate information above includes only base salary or base hourly rate. It does not include any other type of compensation or benefits that may be available.

Purpose of the role

To effectively monitor and maintain the bank’s critical technology infrastructure and resolve more complex technical issues, whilst minimising disruption to operations. 

Accountabilities

• Provision of technical support for the service management function to resolve more complex issues for a specific client of group of clients. Develop the support model and service offering to improve the service to customers and stakeholders.
• Execution of preventative maintenance tasks on hardware and software and utilisation of monitoring tools/metrics to identify, prevent and address potential issues and ensure optimal performance.
• Maintenance of a knowledge base containing detailed documentation of resolved cases for future reference, self-service opportunities and knowledge sharing.
• Analysis of system logs, error messages and user reports to identify the root causes of hardware, software and network issues, and providing a resolution to these issues by fixing or replacing faulty hardware components, reinstalling software, or applying configuration changes.
• Automation, monitoring enhancements, capacity management, resiliency, business continuity management, front office specific support and stakeholder management.
• Identification and remediation or raising, through appropriate process, of potential service impacting risks and issues.
• Proactively assess support activities implementing automations where appropriate to maintain stability and drive efficiency. Actively tune monitoring tools, thresholds, and alerting to ensure issues are known when they occur.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes
• 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 lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
• Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
• Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
• Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex information. Complex information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
• Influence or convince stakeholders 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.