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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 a Senior Site Reliability Engineer for Identity Services. At Barclays, our vision is clear -to redefine the future of banking and help craft innovative solutions. In this role, you will ensure the reliability, availability, and performance of our mission-critical identity platform that serves millions of customers globally. You'll apply your software engineering and systems experience, leveraging AI-assisted development and automation tools to build robust, self-healing infrastructure. Working closely with development teams, you'll implement comprehensive observability, drive operational excellence, and integrate SRE methodologies throughout the software development lifecycle.\nTo be successful as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer for Identity Services, you should:\nDemonstrated experience in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), DevOps, or Platform Engineering, with extensive experience mentoring highly available, scalable production systems.\nDeep knowledge in AWS and Azure, including Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation), container orchestration (ECS, EKS, AKS), and cloud-native architectures\nExperience driving production reliability through SLOs, error budgets, and automation-driven toil reduction, ensuring high service availability and performance\nSignificant incident response experience, including triaging and resolving P1/P2 production incidents, coordinating incident bridges, and driving root cause investigations (RCA) and post-mortems.\nProficiency in automation and scripting using Python, Bash, Go, or similar languages, with a focus on improving operational efficiency and system reliability\nSome other highly desirable skills include:\nExperience operating Ping Identity (or similar IAM platforms) and Open Policy Agent (OPA) (or similar policy engines) in production at scale\nAmple understanding of Identity and Access Management (IAM), authentication and authorization protocols, and the reliability considerations associated with identity platforms and policy engines\nKnowledge of CI/CD pipelines, GitOps practices, and progressive delivery techniques such as canary and blue-green deployments\nExperience with observability and monitoring tools (CloudWatch, Splunk, or similar), including dashboard creation, alerting, and incident analysis\nConsiderable collaboration skills with the ability to partner across engineering teams to enhance platform reliability, security, and operational excellence\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, digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.\nThis role is located in our Whippany, NJ office.\nMinimum Salary: $170,000\nMaximum Salary: $230,000\nThe minimum and maximum salary/rate information above include only base salary or base hourly rate. 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