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Database Engineer Job Description
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
1. Availability, performance, and scalability of systems and services through proactive monitoring, maintenance, and capacity planning.
2. Resolution, analysis, and response to system outages and disruptions, and implement measures to prevent similar incidents from recurring.
3. Development of tools and scripts to automate operational processes, reducing manual workload, increasing efficiency, and improving system resilience.
4. Monitoring and optimization of system performance and resource usage, identifying and addressing bottlenecks, and implementing best practices for performance tuning.
5. 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.
6. Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations, and actively contribute to the organization's technological community to foster a culture of technical excellence and growth.
Assistant Vice President Expectations
1. To advise and influence decision-making, contribute to policy development, and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/business divisions.
2. 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, evaluate performance relative to objectives, and determine rewards.
3. If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviors to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviors are: L - Listen and be authentic, E - Energize and inspire, A - Align across the enterprise, D - Develop others.
4. For individual contributors, lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured tasks, identify the need for other areas of expertise, and explore new directions for assignments and projects.
5. Consult on complex issues; provide advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
6. Identify ways to mitigate risk and develop new policies/procedures to support the control and governance agenda.
7. Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls related to the work done.
8. Perform work closely related to other areas, requiring understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to organizational objectives.
9. Collaborate with other work areas to stay aligned with business activity and strategy.
10. Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources to solve problems creatively and effectively.
11. Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve objectives.
All colleagues are expected to embody the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, and Stewardship, and demonstrate the Barclays Mindset - Empower, Challenge, and Drive.
Join us as a Database Engineer at Barclays, where you'll monitor and maintain the bank's critical technology infrastructure, resolve complex technical issues, and minimize operational disruptions. You will apply software engineering techniques, automation, and incident response best practices to ensure system reliability, availability, and scalability.
To be successful as a Database Engineer, you should have:
* Expertise in Ansible for database server configurations
* Expertise in DevOps automation tools such as Git, JIRA, and database CI/CD tools
* A good working knowledge of leading SRE practices across large organizations or complex teams
Additional valued skills may include:
* Knowledge of MongoDB
* Hands-on experience with containers and Kubernetes
* Expertise in scripting languages (Python, Bash) for automation and migration tasks
This role is based in Knutsford. Job ID JR-0000034321
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