Infrastructure Engineer

Infrastructure Engineer

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.

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. Including the identification of the appropriate technologies and solutions to meet business, optimisation, and resourcing requirements.
• Incident Management: Monitoring of IT infrastructure and system performance to measure, identify, address, and resolve any potential issues, vulnerabilities, or outages. Use of data to drive down mean time to resolution.
• Automation: Development and implementation of automated tasks and processes to improve efficiency and reduce manual intervention, utilising software scripting/coding disciplines.
• Security: Implementation of a secure configuration and measures to protect infrastructure against cyber-attacks, vulnerabilities, and other security threats, including protection of hardware, software, and data from unauthorised access.
• 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 via a data driven approach.
• Learning: Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations, and actively contribute to the organisation's technology communities to foster a culture of technical excellence and growth.

Join Barclays as an Infrastructure Engineer role, where you are responsible for enhancing existing processes, reporting and controls whilst ensuring the flawless execution of BAU. Driving through efficiencies and process improvements standardising processes across SBU's where possible. At Barclays, we don't just anticipate the future - we're creating it.

To be successful in this role, you should have below skills:

• Strong experience in QA – Automation and manual
• Good understanding of BDD, Hands on experience in test automation development
• Good knowledge of Python programming
• Extensive knowledge of testing lifecycle and core testing process/techniques using different test approaches.
• Good with providing estimations, designing test plan and test strategy, writing test scenarios, cases, executing test cases, opening bugs, verifying bugs
• Awareness on CI/CD and DevOps – Jenkins
• Gitlab
• Experience of using the Git source code control system
• Excellent communication skills [verbal and written] are essential. Ability to communicate with the global team is essential
• Able to identify processes and tools that will optimize and improve the quality of testing.
• API test automation, XML Verification etc.
• Good understanding of UI test automation tools e.g. Selenium, UFT, etc.

Some other highly valued skills may include below:

• Knowledge of AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Jenkins pipeline scripting (Groovy or Jenkinsfile)
• Performance testing tools (Locust)

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role is based in our Pune office.