{"id":1140227,"url":"https://alion.io/job/barclays-network-solution-engineer","title":"Network Solution Engineer","company":{"id":12541,"name":"Barclays","domain":"home.barclays","url":"https://alion.io/company/barclays-uk","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"is_intermediary":false,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":95,"open_postings":123,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.374,"repost_share":0.049,"time_to_fill_p50_days":13,"computed_at":"2026-09-23T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"Networking","role_family":"Networking","seniority":null,"employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Pune, India"],"countries":["IN"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Ansible","optional":false},{"name":"AWS","optional":false},{"name":"BGP","optional":false},{"name":"FortiGate","optional":false},{"name":"Incident Management","optional":false},{"name":"ITIL","optional":false},{"name":"OSPF","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"VMWare","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-23T10:42:11Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-23","last_verified_at":"2026-09-23T04:41:58Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"Job Description\nPurpose of the role\nTo 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.\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.\nAnalyst Expectations\nTo perform prescribed activities in a timely manner and to a high standard consistently driving continuous improvement.\nRequires in-depth technical knowledge and experience in their assigned area of expertise\nThorough understanding of the underlying principles and concepts within the area of expertise\nThey lead and supervise a team, guiding and supporting professional development, allocating work requirements and coordinating team resources.\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 develop technical expertise in work area, acting as an advisor where appropriate.\nWill have an impact on the work of related teams within the area.\nPartner with other functions and business areas.\nTakes responsibility for end results of a team’s operational processing and activities.\nEscalate breaches of policies / procedure appropriately.\nTake responsibility for embedding new policies/ procedures adopted due to risk mitigation.\nAdvise and influence decision making within own area of expertise.\nTake ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work you own or contribute to. Deliver your work and areas of responsibility in line with relevant rules, regulation and codes of conduct.\nMaintain and continually build an understanding of how own sub-function integrates with function, alongside knowledge of the organisations products, services and processes within the function.\nDemonstrate understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.\nMake evaluative judgements based on the analysis of factual information, paying attention to detail.\nResolve problems by identifying and selecting solutions through the application of acquired technical experience and will be guided by precedents.\nGuide and persuade team members and communicate complex / sensitive information.\nAct as contact point for stakeholders outside of the immediate function, while building a network of contacts outside team and external to the organisation.\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 Barclays as a Network Solution Engineer role, where 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. At Barclays, we don't just anticipate the future - we're creating it.\nTo be successful in this role, you should have below skills:\nProven detailed experience in designing mid to large-scale network solutions\n\nCapable of bringing together expert knowledge from across the organization and consolidating into a cohesive end-to-end solution\n\nStrong communication and presentation skills for conveying complex solutions effectively.\n\nExperience collaborating within virtual teams in a complex network environment\n\nComprehensive technical knowledge of major network infrastructure components utilized within the Barclays group (including data networks, firewalls, and load balancers).\n\nIn Depth knowledge of routing protocols like BGP, EIGRP, OSPF\n\nPractical experience with Cisco products like Cisco ACI, Nexus platforms, Firepower/ASA.\n\nExpertise in F5 BIG-IP load balancers and virtualization platforms (VMware/AWS).\n\n-with Fortinet, Juniper, Checkpoint, and Cisco ASA firewalls.\n\nFamiliarity with Automation / scripting\n\nSome other highly valued skills may include below:\nCisco - CCIE/CCNP (R&S/security) certified\n\nFortiGate - FCNSA\n\nF5 - CTS-LTM, CTS-GTM\n\nPython, Ansible, shell scripting\n\nChange management\n\nITIL process awareness - change, incident, and problem management\n\nYou 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.\nThis role is based in Pune office.","description_format":"text","description_chars":6771,"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":["Professional development"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Credit Cards","Wealth Management","Lending","Payments"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-23T10:42:11Z"}],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":13,"reasons":["conf:7","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-09-23T18:28:09Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/barclays-network-solution-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/barclays-network-solution-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-23T18:28:09Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers"}}