AVP, IT Application Support, Site Reliability Engineering
Whippany, New Jersey

Barclays Services Corp.

What will you be doing?

• On behalf of a global financial services organization, create complex and innovative technology solutions through engineering principles using knowledge of design, analytics, testing, and application programming.
• Utilize knowledge of IT design, analytics, testing, and application programming to work on scalable solutions across Market Risk.
• Collaborate with vendor and in house resources to achieve common targets of reducing manual redundant monitoring and provide solutions at scale to make Barclays Run-The-Bank technology a better place to work.
• Utilize understanding of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) philosophy, technologies, platforms and tools, SLA management, incident resolution, and automation to hold responsibility for automation of batch management flows using CA Autosys and CA iDash scheduling tools and scripts in python, unix and powershell scripting language.
• Responsible for installation, upgrade and testing of monitoring infrastructure using AppDynamics, ITRS, and other monitoring tools, for Java based applications installed on weblogic and tomcat.
• Responsible for automation of daily batch status emails using scripts in python, unix and powershell scripting language.
• Automate day-to-day business activities including network maintenance events, patching events, resiliency events and application deployments.
• Participate in design and project status meeting, and provide operational documentation to project team members.
• Identify critical processes for monitoring, plan, coordinate and implement standards, and recommend changes to improve performance.
• Participate and support functional, regression and user acceptance testing.
• Provide IT support for production environments including SME support for issue triaging and root cause analysis.

What we’re looking for:

Requires a Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science or Applied Computer Science plus six (6) years of progressive post-baccalaureate experience in the position offered or as a Systems Analyst, Software Engineer or a related occupation. At least six (6) years of progressive post-baccalaureate experience must include: Conducting Business Analysis, Technical Analysis and Change Management from initial scoping and requirements gathering, through to issue management; SAP Business Objects to report financial review to business stakeholders; Netcool to configure effective alerting to manage production processes and programs; Autosys to automate processes and reduce manual workarounds; and SQL/PLSQL, JIRA, Java, Weblogic and Tomcat.

Where will you be working?

You will be working at our Whippany, New Jersey location at 300/400 Jefferson Park. At Barclays, we are proud to be redefining the future of finance and here at Whippany we are defining the future of the workplace and the future of the way we work and live. We are creating a unique community, one of four strategic tech-enabled hubs that will redefine opportunity for everyone who works here. Whatever you do at Whippany, you’ll have every chance to build a world-class career in this world-class environment.

Interested and want to know more about Barclays? Visit home.barclays/who-we-are/ for more details.

Our Values

Everything we do is shaped by the five values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship. Our values inform the foundations of our relationships with customers and clients, but they also shape how we measure and reward the performance of our colleagues. Simply put, success is not just about what you achieve, but about how you achieve it.

Our Diversity

We aim to foster a culture where individuals of all backgrounds feel confident in bringing their whole selves to work, feel included and their talents are nurtured, empowering them to contribute fully to our vision and goals.

It is the policy of Barclays to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, alienage or citizenship status, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by law.

Dynamic working gives everyone at Barclays the opportunity to integrate professional and personal lives, if you have a need for flexibility then please discuss this with the hiring manager.

Our Benefits

Our customers are unique. The same goes for our colleagues. That's why at Barclays we offer a range of benefits, allowing every colleague to choose the best options for their personal circumstances. These include a competitive salary and pension, health care and all the tools, technology and support to help you become the very best you can be. We are proud of our dynamic working options for colleagues. If you have a need for flexibility then please discuss this with us.

This position is eligible for incentives pursuant to Barclays Employee Referral Program.