Barclays
Oracle Site Reliability Engineer
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Oracle Site Reliability Engineer
Oracle Site Reliability Engineer – Job Description (Knutsford, Barclays)
Purpose of the Role
To apply software engineering techniques, automation, and best practices in incident response, ensuring the reliability, availability, and scalability of systems, platforms, and technology.
Key Accountabilities
Core Responsibilities
- Ensure availability, performance, and scalability of systems and services through proactive monitoring, maintenance, and capacity planning.
- Lead resolution, analysis, and response to system outages and disruptions, implementing measures to prevent recurring incidents.
- Develop tools, scripts, and automation to streamline operational processes, enhancing efficiency and system resilience.
- Monitor and optimize system performance and resource usage, identifying and addressing bottlenecks while implementing best practices for performance tuning.
- Collaborate with development teams to integrate reliability, scalability, and performance best practices into the software development lifecycle.
- Stay updated on industry technology trends, contributing to the organization’s technical excellence and growth.
Leadership & Strategic Impact (Assistant Vice President Level)
If the role holds leadership responsibility, the following expectations apply:
- Advise and influence decision-making, contribute to policy development, and ensure operational effectiveness.
- Collaborate closely with business functions/divisions to drive systemic improvements.
- Lead and mentor a team, using professional expertise to deliver business-impactful outcomes while setting and coaching towards performance objectives.
- Ensure performance appraisal and reward alignment with deliverables.
- Demonstrate the LEAD Leadership Behaviours:
- Listen and be authentic
- Energise and inspire
- Align across the enterprise
- Develop others
- Lead collaborative assignments and guide teams, identifying specialized needs and cross-functional methods to meet project goals.
- Consult on complex issues, providing expert advice to People Leaders regarding escalated incidents.
- Mitigate risk, develop new policies, and strengthen controls for governance and operational excellence.
- Ensure coordination between functions to align with business strategy and objective achievement.
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Technical & Functional Requirements
Essential Skills & Experience
- Demonstrated expertise in Oracle Database administration (concepts) and PL/SQL development.
- Ability to write, optimize, troubleshoot, and maintain multi-layered SQL queries, stored procedures, packages, functions, and high-performance database code.
- Deep understanding of Oracle architecture, including performance tuning, backup/recovery, and high availability solutions (e.g., Oracle RAC, Data Guard, GoldenGate, ASM).
- Bash/Shell scripting and Python proficiency for automation, monitoring, and operational assignments.
- Experience designing automated solutions to improve reliability, reduce manual effort, and achieve operational excellence.
- Familiarity with Git/Bitbucket for source control and version management.
- Practical knowledge of Jira for Agile delivery, change management, incident tracking, and sprint execution.
- CI/CD fundamentals for database change deployment and orchestration.
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Highly Valued Additional Qualifications
- Ansible experience (configuration management, operational automation).
- Expertise in enterprise observability/platforms (Oracle Enterprise Manager, Splunk, Elastic/Observability, Grafana, Prometheus).
- Strong root cause analysis (RCA), incident management, and production troubleshooting skills.
- Oracle-specific skills (ASM, RAC, GoldenGate, disaster recovery).
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (OCI, AWS, Azure) and modern Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices (e.g., reliability engineering, capacity planning, service resilience).
Assessment Criteria
Candidates may be evaluated on:
- Risk and Controls
- Change and Transformation
- Business Acumen & Strategic Thinking
- Digital and Technology Advancement
- Role-specific technical proficiency
Work Experience Culture
At Barclays, our Work Experience is shaped by:
- A culture of respect, integrity, service, excellence, and stewardship (our moral compass).
- The Barclays Mindset—Empower, Challenge, Drive.
- A commitment to sustainability, fostering curiosity, collaboration, and collective impact.
- Recognition programs rooted in team success, humility, and empowering others.
Our employees are self-disciplined, hardworking, curious, trustworthy, and humble, working towards: ✔ Team first approach. ✔ Seeking and delivering differences through collaboration. ✔ Driving consistent excellence as the #1 Top Workplace in the region.
Location: Knutsford (On-site).
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