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AWS Developer

senior · Operations

Job Description

Purpose of the role

To design, develop and improve software, utilising various engineering methodologies, that provides business, platform, and technology capabilities for our customers and colleagues. 

Accountabilities

• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to support efficient and repeatable software delivery.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using industry-standard tooling and frameworks.
• Automate manual operational processes to improve consistency, quality, and speed of delivery.
• Design, deploy, and maintain cloud infrastructure, within AWS and hybrid environments.
• Ensure platforms are secure, highly available, scalable, and cost-efficient.
• Develop platform standards, reusable components, and self-service capabilities.

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.

We are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to add to our Data and Analytics team to aid in the transition to a DevOps model of operation. You would be a strong culture-carrier, responsible as part of a team for designing, implementing, and supporting secure, scalable, and resilient cloud platforms, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and observability capabilities. The role provides technical leadership across engineering teams, driving DevOps best practices, enhancing software delivery performance, and embedding security, reliability, monitoring, and operational excellence throughout the software development lifecycle.

To be Successful in this role you will need:

• Experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Platform Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS cloud services, including EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, S3, IAM, CloudWatch, Route 53, and networking services.
• Expertise in Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or similar tooling

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Strong experience with monitoring, observability, logging, and alerting platforms.
• Experience defining operational metrics, SLOs, SLIs, and service health reporting
• Knowledge of resilience engineering, chaos testing, and reliability engineering practices.
• Hands-on experience with distributed tracing and application performance monitoring (APM).

You may be assessed on key skills that support success in this role, such as risk and governance methodologies, strategic thinking, and best practices for standard technology control processes, alongside role-specific technical skills. 

This role is based out of our Glasgow office.