Engineering

Knutsford, United Kingdom

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Date live: 11/10/2022

Business Area: COO & Functions

Area of Expertise: Technology

Reference Code: 90271456

Contract: Permanent/Regular

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Cloud Engineer (Test Automation Specialist)
Radbroke

As a Barclays Cloud Engineer you will be part of a global team in GTIS (Global Technology Infrastructure Services). This is your chance to showcase your skills and experience to be a test automation specialist, working in the Cloud Engineering team, to ensure the test suite is continuously expanded and improved, you will revolutionize the banks IT infrastructure.
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.
This opportunity is open to dynamic working arrangements. Such as working from home, flexible or compressed hours, and part-time options. If you have a need for flexibility, please apply and discuss this with us during the hiring process.

What will you be doing?
•   Working with the Engineers to ensure the test suite is fit for purpose and writing and maintaining test suite, ensuring results are accurate
•   Ensuring failures are understood and automated to prevent a reoccurrence
•   Working with the team of engineers to deliver and maintain platform and products for the Public Cloud programme
•   Working with the Engineering lead to ensure the release schedule is maintained
•   Driving outcomes from investigations and communicate findings with team colleagues
•   Creating technical documentation in a clear way to achieve affective communication of the solutions and strategy
•   Keeping up to date with the feature teams, spot inconsistencies, potential conflicts in approach & work to ensure full integration with a focus on quality of the overall service
•   Creating documentation of new features in line public cloud standards

What we’re looking for:
•   Exceptional level of test automation skills including python coding skills, and test automation frameworks and a proven track record automating testing on AWS
•   Proven ability to analyse aspects of a given problem and highlights the implications of decisions that could result in unintended issues
•   Proven ability to learn new skills quickly, and commit to progress formal certification in Cloud technology
•   Ability to investigate and resolve technical and none technical issues

Skills that will help you in the role:

• Knowledge of scrum and Kanban would be beneficial
• Knowledge of AWS would be highly desirable

Where will you be working?
You will be based in Radbroke, 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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