Senior Platform Engineer

Senior Platform Engineer

Join us as a Senior Platform Engineer at Barclays, where you'll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. We are on the lookout for a Senior Software Developer who is interested in working on the tools, frameworks, and libraries for other Engineering teams. You'll support a large community of around 4000 engineers, creating progressive technology and patterns to adopt in their work to enable quicker, more efficient, and effective releases of software up to Production, while continuously increasing its quality.

To be successful as a Senior Platform Engineer, you should have extensive experience with:

• Programming – either Python, Golang, or Java.
• Container technologies, such as Docker, Kubernetes, and Public Cloud experience – AWS (ideally), Azure.
• Infrastructure Automation – Terraform, Cloud Formation, Ansible.

Some other highly valued skills include:

• Experience with Observability / Monitoring technologies like ELK stack, Prometheus, Grafana, etc.
• Awareness of current AI / GenAI offerings on the market – LLMs, code assistants, agentic coding, etc.
• Accountability, sense of ownership and "Getting job done" mindset.

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 will be based in our London office.