Automation Engineer

Glasgow, United Kingdom

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Date live: 11/10/2022

Business Area: COO & Functions

Area of Expertise: Technology

Reference Code: 90277701

Contract: Permanent/Regular

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Automation Engineer
Glasgow

As a Barclays Automation Engineer you will be participating in troubleshooting situations and execute Release Management for the non-production environments partnered with a Development Team, facilitating deployments, troubleshooting environment issues. You will be the conduit with the Run the Bank team.

Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, with 329 years of success, quality and innovation behind us. 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.

What will you be doing?

• Co-ordinating and supporting self-service deployments to the pre-production environments and facilitate deployments from external teams on multi-platform systems
• Diagnosing and resolution of non-functional defects found during test phases and apply identified continuous improvements to drive efficiencies
• Performing timely upgrades of environments to an agreed schedule
• Identifying and apply automation opportunities to speed up deployments whilst eliminating risks
• You will clearly communicate plans and status to all levels within the organisation and take technical leadership during problem situations
• Preserving and enhance the knowledge base of Release Management activities including version control for all Application and Infrastructure documentation
• Co-ordinating the test and development teams when using CI/CD and test automation

What we’re looking for:

• Exposure to tools like Docker, Jenkins, Nexus, ELK, App Dynamics & Chef
• Previous experience of Release, Deployment and Change Management process (ITIL)
• Understanding of Unix systems with a successful track record of cloud technologies like Teradata & Openshift plus experience of Test Automation with Cucumber/Selenium
• Experience of automation scripting with Bash, PowerShell or similar is preferred

Skills that will help you in the role:

• Experience of Application or Technical Support including version control repositories
• Knowledge of Cloud services like AWS and/or Azure
• Experience with code quality tools (SonarQube, Coveralls)
• Web-related protocols HTTP, SSL, DNS and load balancing

Where will you be working?

We’ve been in Scotland for 250 years, and our significance has never been as important as it is today. You can find Princes House in West Campbell Street, a short walk from both Central and Queen Street Stations, and not far from Sauchiehall Street and Argyll Street, two of the city’s main shopping hubs. We’re committed to giving everyone the opportunity to thrive at Barclays, investing in our people, communities, and facilities – highlighted by our new state-of-the-art campus opening soon in the city centre.

Interested and want to know more about Barclays? Visit home.barclays/who-we-are/ for more details.

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