Cloud and Application Infrastructure Engineer

Knutsford, United Kingdom

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Date live: 11/10/2022

Business Area: COO & Functions

Area of Expertise: Technology

Reference Code: 90273971

Contract: Permanent/Regular

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Cloud and Application Infrastructure Engineer
Radbroke

As a Barclays Cloud and Application Infrastructure Engineer you will report to the L3 technical lead and be primarily responsible for the provision, support and stability of our systems. This will include collaboration with a number of teams across Barclays Corporate & International, Infrastructure Services, & external vendors. You will be focusing on identification, validation and implementation of tools to proactively identify and mitigate any risks with potential to impact our clients.

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?
•   Working on Environment Build, Integration and Configuration of environments
•   Testing environment support – defect triage/ resolution for issues with the components
•   Working on Release & Configuration – deployments to all Test, Production & DR environments
•   Driving and enhancing the Resilience capabilities, not just Infrastructure but guiding where application designs can be changed to take advantage of resilient architecture
•   Supporting Production – L3 incident & problem management and supporting Resilience PCO invocation and testing
•   Working on Tech Debt/ Strategic initiatives – Infrastructure & Software upgrades, Patching, Certificate Management
•   Alerting & Monitoring – working with the Infrastructure Services and tooling teams on installation and configuration of CA APM (Wily), AppD, Ganglia, Galaxy, Azure, NIMBUS
•   Installing, configuring and maintaining the Banks Identift Access Management & authentication services such as IBM ISIM, or the Broadcom/ CA SSO SiteMInder

What we’re looking for:
•   Sound knowledge of Identity and access management tools
•   Sound knowledge of UNIX/ LINUX Administration & JBOSS
•   Knowledge of Dockers and OpenShift: Should be able to create Dockerimages as per application requirement Configuration of secrets and configs on Deployment configs
•   Deployment and other tasks automation using Jenkins CI/ CD Pipelines

Skills that will help you in the role:
•   IBM WebSphere - installation and configuration of WebSphere Application Server 8.5.5.x and later installation of feature packs and applying latest patches on top of WAS JACL
•   AWS Practioner/ Associate qualifications

Where will you be working?
The Barclays Technology Campus, just outside Manchester, is our transatlantic tech command centre for information security in the UK. It’s the vital strategic powerhouse behind our global operations. Radbroke is a place where big ideas become realities. Where the talent in the world can build careers full of scope, variety and reward, by creating the technical solutions that meet today’s demands, answer tomorrow’s questions and redefine the future of finance.

More about working at Barclays

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We continue to embed and review our hybrid working environment and remain in a phase of testing and learning. This means that working arrangements could change, with reasonable notice, to align with the needs of our business.

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Our approach to working flexibly is designed to support you to balance your life and to accommodate diverse needs, whilst still allowing us to meet our business needs. If you’d like to request a flexible working arrangement, please discuss this with your hiring manager.

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