Platform Engineer

Platform Engineer

Whippany, NJ

As a Platform Engineer, you'll be responsible for the build and delivery of the EDP Advanced analytics platform across a number of hosting platforms such as AWS, Kubernetes, OpenShift and on premise servers. You will be automating the deployment and maintenance of the EDP Advanced analytics platform using Infrastructure, Cloud-formation and CI/CD tools such as Jenkins. You will also deliver self-service capabilities and automations to enable easy adoption of the EDP Advanced analytics platform.

Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, with 329 years of success, quality, and innovation behind us. We've helped millions of individuals and businesses thrive, creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted. An important and growing presence in the USA, we offer careers providing endless opportunity.

Working Flexibly

We're committed to providing a supportive and inclusive culture and environment for you to work in. This environment recognizes and supports ways to balance your personal needs, alongside the professional needs of our business. Providing the opportunity for all our employees, globally to work flexibly empowers each of us to work in a way that suits our lives as well as enabling us to better service our customers' and clients' needs. Whether you have family commitments or you're a carer, or whether you need study time or wish to pursue personal interests, our approach to working flexibly is designed to help you balance your life. If you would like some flexibility, then please discuss this with the hiring manager, and your request will be reviewed subject to business needs.

We are currently in the early stages of implementing a hybrid working environment, which means that many colleagues spend part of their working hours at home and part in the office, depending on the nature of the role they are in. We're flexible on how this works and it may continue to change and evolve. Depending on your team, typically this means that colleagues spend a minimum of between 20% to 60% of their time in the office, which could be over a week, a month or a quarter. However, some colleagues may choose to spend more time in the office over a typical period than their role type requires. We also have a flexible working process where, subject to business needs, all colleagues globally are able to request work patterns to reflect their personal circumstances

Please discuss the detail of the working pattern options for the role with the hiring manager.

What will you be doing?

• Designing new platform capabilities, or enhancing existing ones, ensuring deliverables comply to Barclays standards and policies (for security, data privacy, accessibility)
• Engaging in service improvement across Elastic DP platform by identifying existing design and work towards remediation and improvement
• Inspiring confidence by making and honouring commitments, demonstrates initiative and competence
• Ensuring deliverables comply to Barclays standards and policies (for Security, Data privacy, Accessibility)
• Developing and prototyping of highly available distributed systems, web application development, and framework extensions
• Suggesting new ways forward and coming up with new feature ideas

What we're looking for:

• Experience in data platform engineering, preferably in financial sector
• Understanding of Hadoop core concepts, AWS CloudFormation and Kubernetes.
• Core programming languages: Java / Scala or Python
• Understanding of systems and applications associated with Cloud and containerization environments such as UNIX, Windows, Storage, Middleware, Security, or Systems Management

Skills that will help you in the role:

• Demonstrable experience of DevOps tooling such as Jenkins, Bitbucket/Git, Nexus, and working knowledge of CI / CD toolchains
• Infrastructure automation skills (Chef)
• Exposure to one or more additional technologies in the platform namely DB2, MongoDB, MariaDB Ab Initio, Informatica, Teradata or SAS
• Communication, engagement, documentation and governance skills - able to work with teams to ensure the right deliverables are created, communicated and managed

Where will you be working?

At Barclays, we are proud to be redefining the future of finance and here at Whippany we are defining the future of the workplace and the future of the way we work and live. We are creating a unique community, one of four strategic tech-enabled hubs that will redefine opportunity for everyone who works here. Whatever you do at Whippany, you'll have every chance to build a world-class career in this world-class environment.

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