Join us as a Site Reliability Engineer where you'll lead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence.
Role Overview
As a Microsoft SQL Database Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) at Barclays, you will play a key technical role. You will help shape our database administration strategies, ensuring our technological approaches are innovative and aligned with the Bank’s business goals. You will contribute to high-impact projects, collaborate with management, and implement SRE practices through software engineering and database administration to address infrastructure and operational challenges at scale.
As part of the Database SRE team, you will focus on data-driven solutions to eliminate TOIL through simplification, automation, and observability, thereby enhancing platform reliability. Your focus will be on database scalability, availability, security, and performance, working closely with engineering teams, product managers, and other stakeholders to ensure seamless and secure data operations, even under high traffic and operational demands.
Key Responsibilities
1. Ensure availability, performance, and scalability of systems through proactive monitoring, maintenance, and capacity planning.
2. Respond to system outages and disruptions, analyzing issues and implementing measures to prevent recurrence.
3. Develop tools and scripts to automate operational processes, reducing manual effort and improving system resilience.
4. Monitor and optimize system performance and resource usage, addressing bottlenecks and applying best practices for tuning.
5. Collaborate with development teams to embed reliability, scalability, and performance best practices into the software development lifecycle.
6. Stay updated with industry trends and contribute to the organization’s technology communities.
Qualifications & Skills
* Expertise in MS SQL, especially versions SQL 2016–2022, handling complex issues related to availability, tuning, and architecture on an enterprise scale.
* Experience in shaping and designing SRE practices for MSSQL offerings.
* Serve as a technical escalation point for complex database issues, providing expert solutions.
* Assist in establishing and evolving the SRE function, implementing advanced SLIs and SLOs.
* Experience with database automation, estate standardization, and configuration management tools such as Chef or Ansible.
* Proficiency in scripting languages like PowerShell for automation and migration tasks.
Additional Information
This role is based at our Knutsford campus.
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