Compute Grid Site Reliability Engineer-avp

**Date live**:
07/01/2025
**Business Area**:
Markets Pre Trade
**Area of Expertise**:
Technology
**Contract**:
Permanent
**Reference Code**:
JR-0000035236
Be a part of a place where challenges are measured in billions, qubits and nanoseconds. Build your career in an environment where we’re advancing machine learning, leveraging blockchains, and harnessing FinTech. Working in Barclays technology, you’ll reimagine possibilities: learning and innovating to solve the challenges ahead, delivering for millions of customers.
We are shaping the future of financial technology.
Why not join us and make it happen here?
Join us in the role as Compute Grid Site Reliability Engineer
- AVP in Singapore. The Compute Grid team is responsible for building and maintaining the bank’s distributed super-computer which runs the bank’s compute intensive workloads. The system harnesses CPU capacity sourced from on-prem and public cloud. The team’s mission statement is: “To provide a stable platform for the distributed execution of computation tasks at the lowest possible price”. In this role, you will work to continuously improve the Compute Grid service, operating within the team’s EngOps framework (a mix of SRE & DevOps), taking part in support, operations, engineering, and development work on rotation.
To be successful in the role, you must have
Essential Skills/Basic Qualifications
Strong verbal and written communication skills.
Strong technical aptitude and can-do attitude along with good problem-solving skills.
Experience in Windows/Unix Systems Administration
PowerShell and Python scripting
Desirable skills/Preferred Qualifications
Experience with High Performance Computing software such as IBM Symphony and Tibco/DataSynapse GridServer.
Experience with Microsoft Azure & AWS.
Experience using Splunk.
Experience in DevOps tooling(Git, Chef, Jenkins, Terrafor
Purpose of the role
Accountabilities
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.
Assistant Vice President Expectations
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. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other