Overview
Join us as a GCP Cloud Engineer Lead to help design and deliver innovative cloud solutions for Barclays. This role sits within our Cloud Platform Engineering team, responsible for building and operating secure, scalable, and resilient cloud environments for business-critical applications. You will advance cloud adoption and operational excellence, support engineers, and shape approaches for our Internet-facing platforms.
Purpose of the role
To build and maintain infrastructure platforms and products that support applications and data systems, using hardware, software, networks, and cloud computing platforms as required with the aim of ensuring that the infrastructure is reliable, scalable, and secure. Ensure the reliability, availability, and scalability of the systems, platforms, and technology through the application of software engineering techniques, automation, and best practices in incident response.
Accountabilities
* Build Engineering: Development, delivery, and maintenance of high-quality infrastructure solutions to fulfil business requirements ensuring measurable reliability, performance, availability, and ease of use. Identify appropriate technologies and solutions to meet business, optimisation, and resourcing requirements.
* Incident Management: Monitoring of IT infrastructure and system performance to measure, identify, address, and resolve potential issues, vulnerabilities, or outages. Use data to drive down mean time to resolution.
* Automation: Development and implementation of automated tasks and processes to improve efficiency and reduce manual intervention, using software scripting/coding disciplines.
* Security: Implementation of secure configurations and measures to protect infrastructure against cyber-attacks, vulnerabilities, and other security threats, including protection of hardware, software, and data from unauthorised access.
* Teamwork: Cross-functional collaboration with product managers, architects, and other engineers to define IT infrastructure requirements, devise solutions, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives via a data-driven approach.
* Learning: 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.
Responsibilities and activities
* Technical Leadership: Architects, deploys, and operates cloud services at scale (networking, IAM, monitoring, resource handling) and designs automated CI/CD pipelines for cloud infrastructure.
* Infrastructure as Code: Write IaC using tools such as Terraform.
* Mentoring: Ability to mentor and coach team members, encourage collaboration, and promote best practices.
Qualifications and skills
* Experience with architecting, deploying, and operating cloud services at scale, including networking, IAM, monitoring, and resource handling.
* Writing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform.
* Designing and implementing automated CI/CD pipelines for cloud infrastructure using tools such as GitLab and programming languages like Python.
* Knowledge of cloud security best practices for Internet-facing environments, particularly within GCP.
* Experience with multi-cloud platforms and Kubernetes orchestration, focusing on security, high availability, and performance.
* Ability to lead and support teams, foster collaboration, and deliver using Agile methodologies.
Location
Based in Knutsford.
Barclays values
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.
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