Senior Cloud Engineer

Senior Cloud Engineer
Knutsford 
As a Barclays Senior Cloud Engineer, you will be responsible for driving all technical aspects of delivery, setting and improving technical direction and standards for development and design across the platforms, supporting our products and services for our UK customers. You will report directly to the Global Head of Digital, Everyday Money Management (EMM) and be responsible for designing and building Digital platforms and for making priority decisions about the scope of deliverables when faced with budget or technical constraints.
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?

•    Driving Cloud-first first strategy for the Digital channels and building the new digital platforms for Everyday Money Management systems
•    Leading the design and build of new digital platforms across all EMM Digital channels – mobile, web and colleague channels
•    Contributing to the Digital strategies, and supporting delivery of said strategies
•    Creating enhanced forward compatible technical capability in the teams in-line with technology and business strategies, across geographies
•    Driving platform innovation and roadmaps to modernise and future proof the technology estates, and uplift resiliency, stability, security and simplification
•    Driving the use of consistent components, tools, technologies and frameworks within the platforms
•    Enabling agile delivery through continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD), test automation at all levels
•    Championing the workforce strategy as we look to continue to recruit world class engineering capability across our strategic campus locations (across the UK and India)

What we’re looking for:

•    Extensive experience in designing, building and operating cloud platform and degree level in computer science or a similar field
•    Demonstrable hands-on experience in in creating infrastructure-as-a code, policy as a code using terraform or cloudFormation
•    Experience of building CI/CD pipeline and driving automation and of building Canary and blue/green deployment for cloud and on-prem workloads
•    Excellent communication, influencing and collaborative skills 

Skills that will help you in the role:

•    Azure, AWS, and GCP certifications preferred
•    Experience with SysOps
•    Experience in Financial Industry
•    Designing and building multi-region cloud solutions

Where will you be working?

You will be based in Radbroke Hall, 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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