Test Environment Engineer
Knutsford
As a Barclays Test Environment Engineer, you will be a key to ensuring environment availability for testing by Release Management and environment stability upstream and downstream payment flows. Where issues occur, you will work with service providers to ensure effective and timely resolution takes place and provide accurate communications to our stakeholders and Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) including technology, standards, and implementations.
Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, established in 1690, with a legacy of success, quality, and innovation. 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.
At Barclays, we offer a hybrid working experience that blends the positives of working alongside colleagues at our onsite locations, together with working from home. We have a structured approach where colleagues work at an onsite location on fixed, ‘anchor’, days of the week, for a minimum of two days a week or more, as set by the business area (or nearest equivalent if working part-time hours). Please discuss the working pattern requirements for the role you are applying for with the hiring manager. Please note that as we continue to embed our hybrid working environment, we remain in a test and learn phase, which means that working arrangements may be subject to change on reasonable notice to ensure we meet the needs of our business.
What will you be doing?
• Maintaining High availability of non-production environments by managing proactive and effective monitoring & alerting of test infrastructure
• Preserving and enhancing the knowledge base of Environment Monitoring and Automation activities by appropriate documentations
• Demonstrating your solid grasp of common infrastructure components, how they fit together and interact
• Working closely with the Lead Environment Manager and Environments As A Service Leads to own and implement service delivery tasks and assist with initiatives
• Escalating and reporting as required and implementing permanent solutions for recurring issues
• Assisting with DevOps initiative of implementing infrastructure as code using Chef/Puppet/Ansible
• Identifying Infrastructure issues and do an RCA and run Triage calls to resolve issues end to end
• Conducting regular reporting against defined KPI's
What we’re looking for:
• Working experience on Linux and Windows Operating System
• Working knowledge of MQ, Oracle and other relational Databases
• Has configuration, management and support experience of Apache Web Servers and Application Servers – JBOSS, WAS
• Implementation knowledge of Chef, firewall, PKI, Cyberwallet and SSL/TLS encryption
Skills that will help you in the role:
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or any equivalent engineering discipline
• Conversant with SDLC methodologies like Agile and SCRUM
• Skills in languages such as Bash, Python, Ruby, Shell etc
• Good grasp of AWS, Terraform, Chef, OpenStack, Containerisation and Cloud models – IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, Infrastructure virtualization
Where will you be working?
You will be based in Radbroke, Knutsford. The Barclays Technology Campus just outside Manchester is our tech command centre and a vital strategic powerhouse behind our global operations. The campus is set in a 64 acre self-contained site, in a beautiful green environment and it offers unrivalled facilities for work and for play. We have an onsite gym, as well as outdoor tennis, football and cricket areas, as well as onsite restaurant and coffee shops.
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