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Join us as a PostgreSQL SRE at Barclays where you'll effectively monitor and maintain the bank’s critical technology infrastructure and resolve more complex technical issues, whilst minimizing disruption to operations. In this role you will assume a key technical leadership role. You will shape the direction of our database administration, ensuring our technological approaches are innovative and aligned with the Bank’s business goals.
Job Responsibility:
Availability, performance, and scalability of systems and services through proactive monitoring, maintenance, and capacity planning
Resolution, analysis and response to system outages and disruptions, and implement measures to prevent similar incidents from recurring
Development of tools and scripts to automate operational processes, reducing manual workload, increasing efficiency, and improving system resilience
Monitoring and optimisation of system performance and resource usage, identify and address bottlenecks, and implement best practices for performance tuning
Collaboration with development teams to integrate best practices for reliability, scalability, and performance into the software development lifecycle, and work closely with other teams to ensure smooth and efficient operations
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.
Requirements:
Experience as a Database Administrator, with a focus on PostgreSQL and similar database technologies such as Oracle or MS-SQL
A background in implementing and leading SRE practices across large organizations or complex teams
Hands-on experience on Containers and Kubernetes
Experience with DevOps automation tools such as Code versioning (git), JIRA, Ansible, database CI/CD tools and their implementation.
Nice to have:
Expertise with scripting languages (e.g. PowerShell, Python, Bash) for automation/migration tasks
Experience of working on Data migration tools and software’s
Expertise in system configuration management tools such as Chef, Ansible for database server configurations.