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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.\nAccountabilities\nBuild 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.\nIncident 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.\nAutomation: Development and implementation of automated tasks and processes to improve efficiency and reduce manual intervention, utilising software scripting/coding disciplines.\nSecurity: 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.\nTeamwork: 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.\nLearning: 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.\nVice President Expectations\nTo contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures..\nIf managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements..\nIf 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..\nOR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..\nAdvise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.\nManage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.\nDemonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.\nDemonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.\nCollaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.\nCreate solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.\nAdopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.\nSeek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.\nAll colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship - our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset - to Empower, Challenge and Drive - the operating manual for how we behave.\nJoin us as an Infrastructure Engineer VP at Barclays, where you'll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. You'll harness cutting-edge technology to revolutionise our digital offerings, ensuring unparalleled customer experiences. As a part of the team, you will deliver technology stack, using strong analytical and problem solving skills to understand the business requirements and deliver quality solutions. You'll be working on complex technical problems that will involve detailed analytical skills and analysis. This will be done in conjunction with fellow engineers, business analysts and business stakeholders.\nTo be successful as an Infrastructure Engineer VP you should have experience with:\nDemonstrated expertise in Block Storage technologies (SAN, Fibre Channel, iSCSI, multipathing, zoning) with the ability to troubleshoot performance, connectivity, and availability issues end-to-end.\nStrong hands-on experience with File Storage platforms (NAS protocols such as NFS/SMB, permissions, snapshots, replication, scalability) and proven ability to optimize performance and resilience.\nProven capability in Enterprise Backup and Recovery engineering, including backup policy design, retention, restore validation, disaster recovery readiness, and operational governance for mission-critical workloads.\nSolid experience applying SRE principles such as error budgets, SLO/SLI definition, toil reduction, automation-first operations, and post-incident learning to drive measurable reliability improvements.\nStrong observability vision and execution, including defining metrics/logs/traces for storage and backup services, building dashboards, alerting strategies, and using telemetry to prevent incidents before they impact customers.\nExcellent collaboration and communication skills with a consistent track record of working across infrastructure, application, cybersecurity, and service management teams to deliver outcomes and influence operational best practices.\nSome other highly valued skills include:\nExperience automating storage and backup operations using Python/PowerShell, API integrations, or infrastructure-as-code approaches to reduce manual effort and improve consistency.\nWorking knowledge of cloud storage and backup concepts (hybrid architectures, object storage, cloud backup integrations, or cloud-native resilience patterns) and how they intersect with enterprise storage.\nFamiliarity with ITIL / service management practices including incident, problem, change management, and operational runbooks, with the ability to improve process maturity without creating bureaucracy.\nExperience with security and compliance controls for data protection, including encryption, immutability, ransomware recovery practices, and least-privilege access patterns for storage systems.\nExposure to containerized and virtualized platforms (VMware / Kubernetes storage concepts) with the ability to align storage reliability to modern platform needs.\nYou may be assessed on 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.\nThis role will be based out of Pune.","description_format":"text","description_chars":8330,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Commercial & Retail Banks","Cards & Card Issuing","Wealth Management & Financial Advisors","Investment Banking & M&A Advisory"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-29T23:54:30Z"}],"liveness":{"score":90,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.903,"p_room":1,"age_days":1,"expected_fill_days":14,"reasons":["conf:10","velocity","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-01T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/barclays-infrastructure-engineer-vp","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/barclays-infrastructure-engineer-vp.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-01T12:02:10Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":3575,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":1425,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-02T00:00:00Z"}}}