Site Reliability Engineer; SRE), AVP

What will you be doing?

Barclays Services Corp. seeks Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), AVP in Whippany, NJ (multiple positions available):

• Leverage expertise in markets to 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 based environment.
• Monitor latency, throughput, and system health leveraging industry standard tools such as ITRS, Corvil (or equivalent), and Elastic.
• Perform daily release management across global e-trading stack providing change management oversight along with release implementation and start of day availability.
• Collaborate with cross functional teams including the front office (traders), quantitative developers, technology teams, and operations to enable stability and resilient solutions across our businesses.
• Conduct detail postmortems and lessons learned to drive stability and increase overall Mean Time To Recover (MTTR).
• Support Exchange mandatory upgrades and other market events including heightened awareness support during periods of market volatility.
• Maintain rigorous and concise documentation for operational runbooks and systems support.

Minimum Salary: $150,550 per year

Maximum Salary: $160,000 per year

The minimum and maximum salary/rate information above includes only base salary or base hourly rate. It does not include any other type of compensation or benefits that may be available.

Barclays employees are eligible for a suite of a competitive and generous employee benefits, including medical, dental and vision coverage, 401(k), life insurance, and other paid leave for qualifying circumstances.

This position is eligible for an incentive award.

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.

• Availability, performance, and scalability of systems and services through proactive monitoring, maintenance, and capacity planning.
• Resolution, analysis and response to system outages and disruptions, and implement measures to prevent similar incidents from recurring.
• Development of tools and scripts to automate operational processes, reducing manual workload, increasing efficiency, and improving system resilience.
• Monitoring and optimisation of system performance and resource usage, identify and address bottlenecks, and implement best practices for performance tuning.
• 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.
• 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.

• To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
• 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, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes.
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.
• OR for an individual contributor, they will lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments.…