Azure Platform Engineer UK

Join Barclays as an Azure Platform Engineer, where you will be responsible for leading complex deliveries, either individually or through a team of engineers, leveraging Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD, and DevOps—specifically using Bicep and ARM templates. You will design, deploy, and manage scalable cloud infrastructure, implement CI/CD pipelines, and follow DevOps best practices to automate and streamline deployments, ensuring seamless integration and continuous delivery across the organization.

Additionally, you will apply your expertise in Azure Networking (including firewalls and DNS) and work with core Azure services such as Compute, Data, Integration, and Generative AI to optimize and secure cloud solutions.

To succeed in this role, you should have experience with:

• Leading complex deliveries using IaC, CI/CD, and DevOps, specifically with Bicep and ARM templates.
• Azure Networking (firewalls, DNS) and services (Compute, Data, Integration, Generative AI).
• Scripting languages such as Bash, PowerShell, or Python.

Highly valued skills include:

• Azure Policy.
• Jenkins / GitLab.
• Azure Certifications (AZ-104: Azure Administrator, AZ-701: Network Administrator, AZ-500: Security Engineer).

This role is based in Knutsford and Glasgow.

Purpose of the role

To design, develop and improve software, utilising various engineering methodologies, that provides business, platform, and technology capabilities for our customers and colleagues.

Accountabilities

• Development and delivery of high-quality software solutions by using industry aligned programming languages, frameworks, and tools. Ensuring that code is scalable, maintainable, and optimized for performance.
• Cross-functional collaboration with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define software requirements, devise solution strategies, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives.
• Collaboration with peers, participate in code reviews, and promote a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing.
• 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.
• Adherence to secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities, protect sensitive data, and ensure secure software solutions.
• Implementation of effective unit testing practices to ensure proper code design, readability, and reliability.

Vice President Expectations

• To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures.
• If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes.
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard.
• Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.
• Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
• Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives.
• Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives.

All 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.