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Oracle Site Reliability Engineer
Purpose of the role
To apply software engineering techniques, automation, and best practices in incident response, to ensure the reliability, availability, and scalability of the systems, platforms, and technology through them.
Accountabilities
- Availability, performance, and scalability of systems and services through proactive monitoring, maintenance, and capacity planning.
- Resolution, analysis, and response to system outages and disruptions, and implement measures to prevent similar incidents from recurring.
- Development of tools and scripts to automate operational processes, reducing manual workload, increasing efficiency, and improving system resilience.
- Monitoring and optimization of system performance and resource usage, identify and address bottlenecks, and implement best practices for performance tuning.
- Collaboration with development teams to integrate best practices for reliability, scalability, and performance into the software development lifecycle, and work closely with other teams to ensure smooth and efficient operations.
- 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.
Assistant Vice President Expectations
- To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development, and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
- Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well-developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives, and determination of reward outcomes.
- 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. The four LEAD behaviours are:
- L - Listen and be authentic
- E - Energise and inspire
- A - Align across the enterprise
- D - Develop others.
- For an individual contributor, they will lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/or projects, identifying a combination of cross-functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
- Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
- Identify ways to mitigate risk and develop new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
- Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
- Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
- Collaborate with other areas of work, for business-aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
- Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practices (in other areas, teams, companies, etc.) to solve problems creatively and effectively.
- Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
- Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.
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Join Barclays as an Oracle Site Reliability Engineer, where you'll leverage automation, engineering excellence, and incident management best practices to ensure our critical systems remain resilient, available, and ready to support millions of customers every day.


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To be successful as an Oracle Site Reliability Engineer, you should have experience with:
- Good experience with Oracle Database administration concepts and PL/SQL development.
- Ability to write, optimize, troubleshoot, and maintain multi-layered SQL queries, stored procedures, packages, functions, and performance-critical database code.
- Good understanding of Oracle architecture, performance tuning, backup/recovery, and high availability solutions.
- Proficiency in Bash/Shell scripting and Python for automation, monitoring, operational tasks, and incident remediation.
- Experience developing automated solutions to improve reliability, reduce manual effort, and support operational excellence.
- Good experience with Git/Bitbucket for version control and source code management.
- Practical knowledge of Jira for Agile delivery, change management, defect tracking, and sprint execution.
- Understanding of CI/CD values and deployment processes for database changes.
Some Other Highly Valued Skills May Include
- Experience with Ansible for configuration management, database deployment automation, and operational runbook automation.
- Experience with enterprise monitoring and observability platforms (e.g., Oracle Enterprise Manager, Splunk, Elastic, Observe, Grafana, Prometheus).
- Ability to perform root cause evaluation, incident management, and production troubleshooting.
- Knowledge of Oracle RAC, Data Guard, GoldenGate, ASM, and disaster recovery architectures.
- Exposure to cloud platforms (OCI, AWS, Azure) and modern SRE practices such as reliability engineering, capacity planning, and service resilience.
You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking, and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.
The location of your role is Knutsford.
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