Infrastructure Engineer

As an Infrastructure Engineer at Barclays, your role involves enhancing existing processes, reporting, and controls to ensure flawless execution of BAU. You will drive efficiencies and process improvements, standardizing processes across SBUs where possible. Your responsibilities include: - Strong experience in QA Automation and manual testing - Good understanding of BDD with hands-on experience in test automation development - Proficiency in Python programming - Extensive knowledge of testing lifecycle and core testing processes/techniques - Ability to provide estimations, design test plans and strategies, write test scenarios and cases, execute test cases, report bugs, and verify bugs - Awareness on CI/CD and DevOps tools like Jenkins and Gitlab - Experience with Git source code control system - Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, essential for global team collaboration - Identifying processes and tools to optimize and enhance testing quality - Familiarity with API test automation, XML verification, and UI test automation tools like Selenium and UFT Additional highly valued skills may include knowledge of AWS, Azure, or GCP, Jenkins pipeline scripting, and performance testing tools like Locust. The purpose of your role is to apply software engineering techniques, automation, and best practices in incident response to ensure reliability, availability, and scalability of systems, platforms, and technology. Your accountabilities include: - Ensuring availability, performance, and scalability of systems and services through proactive monitoring, maintenance, and capacity planning - Resolving system outages and disruptions, implementing preventive measures, and automating operational processes - Monitoring and optimizing system performance, addressing bottlenecks, and implementing best practices for performance tuning - Collaborating with development teams to integrate reliability and scalability best practices - Staying informed of industry technology trends and contributing to the organization's technology communities As an Analyst, you are expected to perform activities in a timely manner with high standards, driving continuous improvement. You should have in-depth technical knowledge and experience in your area of expertise, lead and supervise a team, guide professional development, and coordinate team resources. If the position involves leadership responsibilities, demonstrate clear leadership behaviours. For individual contributors, develop technical expertise, act as an advisor, and impact related teams within the area. You will partner with other functions, take responsibility for end results of operational activities, escalate breaches of policies, and influence decision-making. You will manage risk, strengthen controls, and align work with relevant rules and regulations. Demonstrate understanding of how your sub-function integrates with the function and contribute to achieving organizational objectives. All colleagues at Barclays are expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, and Stewardship, as well as the Barclays Mindset to Empower, Challenge, and Drive.,