Barclays is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to apply software engineering techniques, automation, and best practices in incident response. You will ensure the reliability, availability, and scalability of systems, platforms, and technology, with a focus on maintaining and improving electronic trading systems.
What You'll Do
- Ensure availability, performance, and scalability of systems and services through proactive monitoring, maintenance, and capacity planning.
- Resolve, analyze, and respond to system outages and disruptions, implementing measures to prevent recurrence.
- Develop tools and scripts to automate operational processes, reducing manual workload and improving system resilience.
- Monitor and optimize system performance and resource usage, identify bottlenecks, and implement performance tuning best practices.
- Collaborate with development teams to integrate reliability, scalability, and performance best practices into the software development lifecycle.
- Maintain and improve the reliability and scalability of electronic trading systems including Connectivity Gateways, Trading Algorithms, and routing engines.
- Develop and extend internal tools leveraging high-level programming languages such as Python in a multi-tiered Linux environment.
- Monitor latency, throughput, and system health using tools such as ITRS, Corvil, and Elastic.
- Perform daily release management across the global e-trading stack, providing change management oversight and release implementation.
- Conduct detailed postmortems and lessons learned to drive stability and increase Mean Time To Recover (MTTR).
- Support Exchange mandatory upgrades and other market events, including heightened awareness support during market volatility.
- Maintain rigorous and concise documentation for operational runbooks and systems support.
- Advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development, and take responsibility for operational effectiveness.
- Lead a team performing complex tasks, set objectives, coach employees, and appraise performance.
- Identify ways to mitigate risk and develop new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
- Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
- Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources to solve problems creatively and effectively.
- Communicate complex information and influence stakeholders to achieve outcomes.
What We're Looking For
- Proficiency in applying software engineering techniques and automation to operational challenges.
- Experience ensuring system reliability, availability, and scalability.
- Ability to maintain and improve electronic trading systems.
- Experience with proactive monitoring, incident response, and capacity planning.
- Strong skills in developing automation tools and scripts.
- Ability to monitor, optimize, and tune system performance.
- Proven collaboration skills with development teams to integrate reliability practices.
- Experience with release management and change oversight.
- Ability to conduct detailed postmortems and drive process improvements.
- Strong documentation skills for operational runbooks.
- Leadership experience, including setting objectives, coaching, and performance appraisal.
- Strong risk management mindset and experience strengthening controls.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills using data from multiple sources.
- Outstanding communication skills to influence stakeholders and achieve outcomes.
Technical Stack
- Python
- Linux
- ITRS
- Corvil
- Elastic
Team & Environment
You will collaborate with cross-functional teams including front office (traders), quantitative developers, technology teams, and operations to enable stability and resilience.
Benefits & Compensation
- Medical, dental and vision coverage
- 401(k)
- Life insurance
- Other paid leave for qualifying circumstances
- Incentive award eligibility
- Salary: $150,550 - $160,000 per year
Work Mode
This is an onsite position located in Whippany, NJ.
Barclays is committed to its Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship and its Mindset to Empower, Challenge and Drive.
