Barclays Bank Plc
Great Houghton, Northamptonshire
Join us as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Oracle where you'll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. This role will include: applying software engineering techniques, automation, and best practices in incident response, ensuring the reliability, availability, and scalability of the systems, platforms, and technology through them To be successful as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Oracle you should have experience with: Oracle Enterprise manager (OEM), Oracle Internet Directory (OID),Oracle database Performance Tuning - SME Deep understanding of LDAP protocols and directory services. SQL Optimization Strong skills in scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash) to automate repetitive tasks and knowledge of configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible, Puppet, Chef). Expertise in setting up and maintaining monitoring systems (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana). Some other highly valued skills may include: Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud). Knowledge of containerization and orchestration tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes). Ability to quickly diagnose and resolve production incidents. Strong interpersonal skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams. 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 will be based in our Knutsford campus. Purpose of the role To apply software engineering techniques, automation, and best practices in incident response, to ensure the reliability, availability, and scalability of the systems, platforms, and technology through them. Accountabilities Availability, performance, and scalability of systems and services through proactive monitoring, maintenance, and capacity planning. Resolution, analysis and response to system outages and disruptions, and implement measures to prevent similar incidents from recurring. Development of tools and scripts to automate operational processes, reducing manual workload, increasing efficiency, and improving system resilience. Monitoring and optimisation of system performance and resource usage, identify and address bottlenecks, and implement best practices for performance tuning. Collaboration with development teams to integrate best practices for reliability, scalability, and performance into the software development lifecycle, and work closely with other teams to ensure smooth and efficient operations. Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations, and actively contribute to the organization's technology communities to foster a culture of technical excellence and growth. Vice President Expectations To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department's future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements 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 be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment. Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda. Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does. Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business. Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies. Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions. Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes. Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills 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.
Join us as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Oracle where you'll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. This role will include: applying software engineering techniques, automation, and best practices in incident response, ensuring the reliability, availability, and scalability of the systems, platforms, and technology through them To be successful as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Oracle you should have experience with: Oracle Enterprise manager (OEM), Oracle Internet Directory (OID),Oracle database Performance Tuning - SME Deep understanding of LDAP protocols and directory services. SQL Optimization Strong skills in scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash) to automate repetitive tasks and knowledge of configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible, Puppet, Chef). Expertise in setting up and maintaining monitoring systems (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana). Some other highly valued skills may include: Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud). Knowledge of containerization and orchestration tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes). Ability to quickly diagnose and resolve production incidents. Strong interpersonal skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams. 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 will be based in our Knutsford campus. Purpose of the role To apply software engineering techniques, automation, and best practices in incident response, to ensure the reliability, availability, and scalability of the systems, platforms, and technology through them. Accountabilities Availability, performance, and scalability of systems and services through proactive monitoring, maintenance, and capacity planning. Resolution, analysis and response to system outages and disruptions, and implement measures to prevent similar incidents from recurring. Development of tools and scripts to automate operational processes, reducing manual workload, increasing efficiency, and improving system resilience. Monitoring and optimisation of system performance and resource usage, identify and address bottlenecks, and implement best practices for performance tuning. Collaboration with development teams to integrate best practices for reliability, scalability, and performance into the software development lifecycle, and work closely with other teams to ensure smooth and efficient operations. Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations, and actively contribute to the organization's technology communities to foster a culture of technical excellence and growth. Vice President Expectations To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department's future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements 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 be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment. Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda. Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does. Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business. Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies. Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions. Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes. Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills 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.
Verint
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Verint Cloud Platform development team to build challenging, high quality product features using the latest cloud technologies and techniques, which will serve our world-wide customer base. The Sr. Software Engineer contributes to the design, development, and implementation of services on the Cloud Platform. The role utilizes proficiency and skills to work on projects. The engineer possesses experience with commonly used programming and design concepts, practices, and procedures and relies on pre-established guidelines to perform the functions of the position under minimal supervision. In addition, the role utilizes current experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. Principal Duties and Essential Responsibilities Designs, implements and tests complex software application/services/systems. Responsible for mid-level designs and contributes to high-level designs. Leads and participates in design reviews. Provides effective communication with local and geographically distributed team members. Participates in the testing process through TDD, test review and analysis, test execution, and certification of software. Provides peer advisement to other Senior Software, Software and Associate Software Engineers, through code/design reviews and peer-programming efforts. Interacts with Product Owner to ensure that specifications are satisfied. Communicates design, reliability and maintenance problems to appropriate internal resources. Responsible for debugging, troubleshooting and developing technical solutions in the form of software patches related to software errors. Creates workaround solutions when product procedures have failed and ensures issues are resolved in a timely fashion. Escalates urgent problems requiring more in-depth knowledge to appropriate internal resources. Escalates urgent issues to Engineering Management. Job Metrics The delivery of high quality product features to customers in a productive manner. Development of product code within an agile process. Design and automate tests whilst working with QA Engineers to create effective test plans. Engage in some research of new technologies & architectures to improve product. Work independently and with a remote peer group. Contribute to daily stand-ups, sprint planning meetings and retrospectives. Effective mentoring of guide junior staff. Key tasks Software Development Designs and implements high quality, re-usable code. Ensure that code adheres to company software guidelines. Employs TDD techniques and automate test cases & test harnesses to enhance quality of product functionality. Incorporate Non-functional requirements into the design of the product features in order to deliver a high quality of service to customers. Technical Innovation Work on complex projects with some supervision and has latitude for judgment on own experience and expertise. Assists less experienced peers. Team collaboration with clear communication Provide effective communication with distributed team members. Escalate urgent issues to quality assurance and management. Participate in Design and sprint planning reviews. Process Adherence Promote a cloud development ethos and culture Follows Test Driven Development best practice Development and management of automated build and deployment systems. Contribute to or lead customer Support issue resolution and / or reviews. Key interfaces Internal Development Manager Software Developers Architects QA Engineers Technical Writers Support Engineers DevOps and Cloud Operations External Partners Customers Vendors / 3 rd Party Suppliers Key experience and Qualifications required Summary: Experience of developing software at scale for a minimum of 5 years is essential. A solid understanding of Agile working practices and methodologies is essential with at least 2 years of experience. Strong proficiency in Java programming of at least 5 years. And knowledge of various frameworks and open source libraries related to that stack. Experience in Object Oriented analysis and design is essential. The ability to demonstrate a working knowledge of and experience of cloud platforms such as Amazon AWS is essential. Experience of developing micro services using spring boot is essential Experience with deploying as docker containers is desirable. Strong proficiency in either front end development technologies or developing REST based web services is desirable. The ability to demonstrate experience in the automation of Software testing and build systems are essential. Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills is essential Ability to work both independently as well as in a dynamic, distributed team environment is essential. The ability to demonstrate strong written and verbal communication skills is essential. Ability to mentor less experienced developers is desirable Industry specific: Regarded as very knowledgeable/experienced in the following areas: Experience of developing for a cloud platform such as AWS, Azure or Google cloud Environment : The ability to demonstrate Design and architect tasks within a delivery plan is essential. The ability to work independently and within development teams in an agile manner is essential. The ability to contribute to a cross-functional team in daily stand-ups, sprint planning meetings and retrospectives is essential. The ability to work in a global environment and interface with remote groups is essential. Location : This role will be based in our Belfast office in the Titanic Quarter. Occasional travel to other Engineering sites may be required. Specific Qualifications & Accreditations Essential : BSc in Computer Science, Information Technology, or Equivalent degree. Desirable : Any relevant Software Engineering Certifications. Product/Technical: Skills and experience in the following skill is essential:. Cloud based development with Amazon Web Services or similar Micro Services architecture. Linux and/or Windows OS. The Micro Services design pattern REST API & SOAP API patterns Linux and/or Windows Skills and experience in one or more skills from the following list is essential: Front end development technologies (JavaScript, HTML, CSS) Developing/consuming REST based web services. Use interface design and implementation which ideally incorporates Responsive Design, progressive enhancement, accessibility, localization and internationalization Skills and experience in a two or more of the skills below is desired: BDD principles with Cucumber. TDD principles with either TestNG or Junit. UI test Automation with Selenium. Monitoring and Logging: ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana), Prometheus and Grafana. Skills and experience in several of the skills below is desired: Build tools such as Jenkins, Maven, as part of CICD pipelines. Modern JavaScript frameworks such as React, or Angular. Working knowledge of distributed source control solutions such as Git. Packaging and Deployment Automation Docker, Amazon AMI, Kubernetes Databases such as MS SQL / Oracle. Professional/Task: Experience in all phases of the software development life cycle is essential i.e. design, develop, test, support. Experience working cross-functionally using an agile methodology, such as SCRUM is essential. Experience of implementing Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment/Delivery pipelines is desired. Good problem-solving skills and troubleshooting skills that enable root cause analysis to be performed is essential. Experience with estimating engineering effort, prioritizing tasks.
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Verint Cloud Platform development team to build challenging, high quality product features using the latest cloud technologies and techniques, which will serve our world-wide customer base. The Sr. Software Engineer contributes to the design, development, and implementation of services on the Cloud Platform. The role utilizes proficiency and skills to work on projects. The engineer possesses experience with commonly used programming and design concepts, practices, and procedures and relies on pre-established guidelines to perform the functions of the position under minimal supervision. In addition, the role utilizes current experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. Principal Duties and Essential Responsibilities Designs, implements and tests complex software application/services/systems. Responsible for mid-level designs and contributes to high-level designs. Leads and participates in design reviews. Provides effective communication with local and geographically distributed team members. Participates in the testing process through TDD, test review and analysis, test execution, and certification of software. Provides peer advisement to other Senior Software, Software and Associate Software Engineers, through code/design reviews and peer-programming efforts. Interacts with Product Owner to ensure that specifications are satisfied. Communicates design, reliability and maintenance problems to appropriate internal resources. Responsible for debugging, troubleshooting and developing technical solutions in the form of software patches related to software errors. Creates workaround solutions when product procedures have failed and ensures issues are resolved in a timely fashion. Escalates urgent problems requiring more in-depth knowledge to appropriate internal resources. Escalates urgent issues to Engineering Management. Job Metrics The delivery of high quality product features to customers in a productive manner. Development of product code within an agile process. Design and automate tests whilst working with QA Engineers to create effective test plans. Engage in some research of new technologies & architectures to improve product. Work independently and with a remote peer group. Contribute to daily stand-ups, sprint planning meetings and retrospectives. Effective mentoring of guide junior staff. Key tasks Software Development Designs and implements high quality, re-usable code. Ensure that code adheres to company software guidelines. Employs TDD techniques and automate test cases & test harnesses to enhance quality of product functionality. Incorporate Non-functional requirements into the design of the product features in order to deliver a high quality of service to customers. Technical Innovation Work on complex projects with some supervision and has latitude for judgment on own experience and expertise. Assists less experienced peers. Team collaboration with clear communication Provide effective communication with distributed team members. Escalate urgent issues to quality assurance and management. Participate in Design and sprint planning reviews. Process Adherence Promote a cloud development ethos and culture Follows Test Driven Development best practice Development and management of automated build and deployment systems. Contribute to or lead customer Support issue resolution and / or reviews. Key interfaces Internal Development Manager Software Developers Architects QA Engineers Technical Writers Support Engineers DevOps and Cloud Operations External Partners Customers Vendors / 3 rd Party Suppliers Key experience and Qualifications required Summary: Experience of developing software at scale for a minimum of 5 years is essential. A solid understanding of Agile working practices and methodologies is essential with at least 2 years of experience. Strong proficiency in Java programming of at least 5 years. And knowledge of various frameworks and open source libraries related to that stack. Experience in Object Oriented analysis and design is essential. The ability to demonstrate a working knowledge of and experience of cloud platforms such as Amazon AWS is essential. Experience of developing micro services using spring boot is essential Experience with deploying as docker containers is desirable. Strong proficiency in either front end development technologies or developing REST based web services is desirable. The ability to demonstrate experience in the automation of Software testing and build systems are essential. Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills is essential Ability to work both independently as well as in a dynamic, distributed team environment is essential. The ability to demonstrate strong written and verbal communication skills is essential. Ability to mentor less experienced developers is desirable Industry specific: Regarded as very knowledgeable/experienced in the following areas: Experience of developing for a cloud platform such as AWS, Azure or Google cloud Environment : The ability to demonstrate Design and architect tasks within a delivery plan is essential. The ability to work independently and within development teams in an agile manner is essential. The ability to contribute to a cross-functional team in daily stand-ups, sprint planning meetings and retrospectives is essential. The ability to work in a global environment and interface with remote groups is essential. Location : This role will be based in our Belfast office in the Titanic Quarter. Occasional travel to other Engineering sites may be required. Specific Qualifications & Accreditations Essential : BSc in Computer Science, Information Technology, or Equivalent degree. Desirable : Any relevant Software Engineering Certifications. Product/Technical: Skills and experience in the following skill is essential:. Cloud based development with Amazon Web Services or similar Micro Services architecture. Linux and/or Windows OS. The Micro Services design pattern REST API & SOAP API patterns Linux and/or Windows Skills and experience in one or more skills from the following list is essential: Front end development technologies (JavaScript, HTML, CSS) Developing/consuming REST based web services. Use interface design and implementation which ideally incorporates Responsive Design, progressive enhancement, accessibility, localization and internationalization Skills and experience in a two or more of the skills below is desired: BDD principles with Cucumber. TDD principles with either TestNG or Junit. UI test Automation with Selenium. Monitoring and Logging: ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana), Prometheus and Grafana. Skills and experience in several of the skills below is desired: Build tools such as Jenkins, Maven, as part of CICD pipelines. Modern JavaScript frameworks such as React, or Angular. Working knowledge of distributed source control solutions such as Git. Packaging and Deployment Automation Docker, Amazon AMI, Kubernetes Databases such as MS SQL / Oracle. Professional/Task: Experience in all phases of the software development life cycle is essential i.e. design, develop, test, support. Experience working cross-functionally using an agile methodology, such as SCRUM is essential. Experience of implementing Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment/Delivery pipelines is desired. Good problem-solving skills and troubleshooting skills that enable root cause analysis to be performed is essential. Experience with estimating engineering effort, prioritizing tasks.
