Join us as a Database Engineer at Barclays, where you'll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. You'll harness technology to revolutionise our digital offerings, ensuring unparalleled customer experiences.
Purpose of the role
To build and maintain infrastructure platforms and products that support applications and data systems, using hardware, software, networks, and cloud computing platforms as required with the aim of ensuring that the infrastructure is reliable, scalable, and secure. Ensure the reliability, availability, and scalability of the systems, platforms, and technology through the application of software engineering techniques, automation, and best practices in incident response.
Minimum Requirements
* Experience as a Database Administrator, with a focus on PostgreSQL and similar database technologies such as Oracle or MS-SQL.
* Experience with DevOps automation tools such as Code versioning (git), JIRA, Ansible, Containers and Kubernetes (OpenShift), database CI/CD tools and their implementation.
* PostgreSQL, serving as the highest level of technical escalation for complex database issues.
* Experience in Data migrations across different database technologies.
Highly Valued Skills
* Cloud experience, AWS, Azure, GCP.
* Experience in a financial environment.
* Experience in system configuration management tools such as Chef, Ansible for database server configurations.
* Experience with scripting languages (e.g. PowerShell, Python, Bash) for automation/migration tasks.
Accountabilities
* Build Engineering: Development, delivery, and maintenance of high-quality infrastructure solutions to fulfil business requirements ensuring measurable reliability, performance, availability, and ease of use.
* Incident Management: Monitoring of IT infrastructure and system performance to measure, identify, address, and resolve any potential issues, vulnerabilities, or outages.
* Automation: Development and implementation of automated tasks and processes to improve efficiency and reduce manual intervention.
* Security: Implementation of a secure configuration and measures to protect infrastructure against cyber-attacks, vulnerabilities, and other security threats.
* Teamwork: Cross-functional collaboration with product managers, architects, and other engineers to define IT Infrastructure requirements, devise solutions, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives.
* Learning: Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations, and actively contribute to the organization's technology communities.
This role will be based in our Knutsford and Glasgow office.
All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.
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