Barclays
Oracle Site Reliability Engineer
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Oracle Site Reliability Engineer
Oracle Site Reliability Engineer – Knutsford
Join Barclays as an Oracle Site Reliability Engineer, where you’ll leverage automation, engineering excellence, and incident management best practices to ensure critical systems remain resilient, available, and ready to support millions of customers daily.
About the Role
Apply software engineering techniques and best practices in incident response to ensure reliability, availability, and scalability of systems, platforms, and technology.
Key Responsibilities
- Maintain availability, performance, and scalability through proactive monitoring, maintenance, and capacity planning.
- Resolve, analyse, and respond to system outages/disruptions, implementing measures to prevent recurring incidents.
- Develop tools/scripts to automate operational processes, reducing manual effort, increasing efficiency, and boosting system resilience.
- Monitor and optimise system performance, recovering bottlenecks, and applying performance tuning best practices.
- Collaborate with development teams to integrate reliability, scalability, and performance best practices into the software development lifecycle.
- Stay updated on industry trends and contribute to fostering a culture of technical excellence.
Who You Are (Essential Skills & Experience)
- Deep Oracle Database administration (PL/SQL) and development experience.
- Ability to write, optimise, troubleshoot, and maintain complex SQL queries, stored procedures, packages, and functions.
- Strong understanding of Oracle architecture, performance tuning, backups/recovery, and high-availability solutions.
- Bash/Shell scripting & Python for automation, monitoring, and incident resolution.
- Experience in automating processes to enhance reliability and reduce manual effort.
- Proficiency with Git/Bitbucket for version control and Jira for Agile delivery, change management, and defect tracking.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines for database change deployments.
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Highly Valued Skills (Bonus)
- Ansible experience for configuration management and automated deployments.
- Expertise in enterprise monitoring/observability tools (Oracle Enterprise Manager, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana).
- Skills in incident root cause analysis, production troubleshooting, and cloud platforms (OCI, AWS, Azure).
- Knowledge of advanced architectures like Oracle RAC, Data Guard, GoldenGate, ASM, and disaster recovery.
Industrty-Specific Assessments
You may be examined on:
- Risk/control, change/transformation, business acumen, and strategic thinking.
- Job-specific technical skills (SRE fundamentals, cloud migration, scalability approaches).
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Expectations (Assistant Vice President Level)
Leadership & Decision-Making
- Advise senior stakeholders on complex policy development, control risks, and operational effectiveness.
- Lead a team and coach employees toward performance goals while upholding objectives.
- Demonstrate four LEAD behaviours: (L) Listen, (E) Energise, (A) Align, (D) Develop others.
- Collaborate enterprise-wide with cross-function teams to ensure business-aligned outcomes.
Strategic Contributions
- Consult on complex issues, providing actionable advice for escalated incidents.
- Develop new policies/procedures to mitigate risks and strengthen governance.
- Engage in data analysis (internal/external sources) to solve problems creatively.
- Communicate complex/sensitive insights and influence stakeholders to drive outcomes.
Barclays Values & Mindset
All colleagues must embody Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, and Stewardship—Barclays’ moral compass. Additionally, you’ll live by our Mindset: * Empower → Challenge → Drive* (our guiding principles for collaboration and growth).
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