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Join us as a Senior Support Engineer at Barclays where you will spearhead the evolution of our infrastructure and deployment pipelines, driving innovation and operational excellence. You will harness cutting-edge technology to build and manage robust, scalable, and secure infrastructure, ensuring seamless delivery of our digital solutions.
Job Responsibility
Provision of technical support for the service management function to resolve more complex issues for a specific client of group of clients. Develop the support model and service offering to improve the service to customers and stakeholders
Execution of preventative maintenance tasks on hardware and software and utilisation of monitoring tools/metrics to identify, prevent and address potential issues and ensure optimal performance
Maintenance of a knowledge base containing detailed documentation of resolved cases for future reference, self-service opportunities and knowledge sharing
Analysis of system logs, error messages and user reports to identify the root causes of hardware, software and network issues, and providing a resolution to these issues by fixing or replacing faulty hardware components, reinstalling software, or applying configuration changes
Automation, monitoring enhancements, capacity management, resiliency, business continuity management, front office specific support and stakeholder management
Identification and remediation or raising, through appropriate process, of potential service impacting risks and issues
Proactively assess support activities implementing automations where appropriate to maintain stability and drive efficiency. Actively tune monitoring tools, thresholds, and alerting to ensure issues are known when they occur
Requirements
Experience in application support role and have knowledge of ITIL processes
Technical experience with high proficiency in SQL, Database Technologies, Unix, Windows, preferably in Markets & Investment Banking domain
Experience with ITIL concepts and best practices. Experience of using configuration management and reporting tools such as Service First/Service Now
Experience in a business facing front office application support role
Experience in batch monitoring tools such as Autosys, including troubleshooting/debugging
Deep familiarity with observability strategy—not just tooling—including alert quality, signal hygiene, and early‑warning design
Nice to have
Good understanding of ITIL methodologies as applicable to application management function
Good understanding of different Investment Banking products and Trade Life Cycle
Experience in some object oriented /scripting technologies like (one or more) Python, Shell, Java, SQL, Web services etc
Experience of working with structured and/or unstructured databases like Oracle, MSSQL, Mongo DB
Competence in standard tool set: GIT, DevOps CI/CD pipelines, JIRA
Experience of monitoring configuration and setup using ITRS Geneos