DevOps and Environments Manager

Description

Prague

As a Barclays DevOps and Environments Manager, you will be accountable for release management, providing CI/CD expertise to the QIS team and being accountable for QIS environment management. You should also have an innovation mindset and be well versed in the overall development lifecycle and relevant technologies and tools. You will be a part of the well-established team in Prague consisting of more than 20 experienced professionals (70+ globally spread across London, New York, Pune, Hong Kong, Singapore).

Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, established in 1690, with a legacy of success, quality, and innovation. We offer careers that provide endless opportunity ? helping millions of individuals and businesses thrive and creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted.

At Barclays, we offer a hybrid working experience that blends the positives of working alongside colleagues at our onsite locations, together with working from home. We have a structured approach where colleagues work at an onsite location on fixed, ?anchor?, days of the week, for a minimum of two days a week or more, as set by the business area (or nearest equivalent if working part-time hours). Please discuss the working pattern requirements for the role you are applying for with the hiring manager. Please note that as we continue to embed our hybrid working environment, we remain in a test and learn phase, which means that working arrangements may be subject to change on reasonable notice to ensure we meet the needs of our business.

What will you be doing?

Working in Equities-Derivatives domain and improving quality of the release management

Working on automatization and containerization of QIS projects

Managing environment refreshes from production

Working with development team to manage the non-production services stability

Taking care of hardware inventorisation, owning remediation plans for various Tech campaign

Mentoring and assisting junior colleagues

Contributing to the continuous improvement of the processes and the system

What we?re looking for:

Solid foundation in system architecture, software development, and both testing and deployment automation

Knowledge of continuous Integration applications (Team City, Jenkins) and as well as of Configuration Management systems (Chef)

Experiences with Linux/Unix administration

Experience with scripting (Python, Powershell, etc)

Skills that will help you in the role:

Relevant experience in software development and exposure to high level programming language (Java preferred)

Knowledge of relational database systems (preferably Oracle) and knowledge of AWS, OpenShift

Windows Server administration experience

Familiarity with messaging platforms such as MQ, Solace or Kafka

Where will you be working?
Our Prague office is based in the financial centre of Prague. We are part of the Operations and Technology Division, and as such, we try our best to stay at the top of our technological game. However, the technology itself is not the most important thing. What matters the most to us is the way our ingenuity can help provide better service to our customers and make life easier for our employees.

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