Barclays

Connectivity Service Operations - Sr. Network Engineer

Barclays$158K — $160K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in network engineering or a related field.
  • Strong understanding of LAN/WAN/MAN technologies and their management.
  • Proven ability to react quickly to system errors and service issues.
  • Experience in incident, problem, and change management processes.
  • Ability to work collaboratively with diverse teams across multiple regions.
  • Advanced troubleshooting skills for network and infrastructure issues.

Responsibilities

  • Manage the bank's network infrastructure including LAN, WAN, and related systems.
  • Execute incident management to minimize service downtimes efficiently.
  • Plan and implement changes aligned with business needs following governance processes.
  • Collaborate with teams to influence new solutions and onboard services.
  • Maintain accurate documentation of network infrastructure.
  • Proactively ensure the integrity and stability of production data networks.
  • Keep knowledge up to date with the bank's infrastructure products and services.

Benefits

  • Competitive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • 401(k) retirement plan with company contributions.
  • Life insurance and additional paid leave options.
  • Eligibility for an incentive award.
  • Telecommuting options available under company policies.
Full Job Description
Job Description

Purpose of the role

To effectively monitor and maintain the bank's critical technology infrastructure and resolve more complex technical issues, whilst minimising disruption to operations.

Accountabilities
  • Provision of technical support for the service management function to resolve more complex issues for a specific client of group of clients. Develop the support model and service offering to improve the service to customers and stakeholders.
  • Execution of preventative maintenance tasks on hardware and software and utilisation of monitoring tools/metrics to identify, prevent and address potential issues and ensure optimal performance.
  • Maintenance of a knowledge base containing detailed documentation of resolved cases for future reference, self-service opportunities and knowledge sharing.
  • Analysis of system logs, error messages and user reports to identify the root causes of hardware, software and network issues, and providing a resolution to these issues by fixing or replacing faulty hardware components, reinstalling software, or applying configuration changes.
  • Automation, monitoring enhancements, capacity management, resiliency, business continuity management, front office specific support and stakeholder management.
  • Identification and remediation or raising, through appropriate process, of potential service impacting risks and issues.
  • Proactively assess support activities implementing automations where appropriate to maintain stability and drive efficiency. Actively tune monitoring tools, thresholds, and alerting to ensure issues are known when they occur.


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.
  • OR 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 developing 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 practises (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.


What will you be doing?

Barclays Services Corp. seeks Connectivity Service Operations - Sr. Network Engineer in Whippany, NJ (multiple positions available):

  • Responsible for managing Network Local Area Network/Wide Area Network/Metro Area Network infrastructure, Load balancer, Web proxies and Domain Name System appliances for the Barclays estate.
  • Responsible for Incident, Problem and Change Management for critical and major incidents. React quickly to live systems errors and service problems to minimize downtime and restore service. Taking lead in technical communication and focus for root cause identification and implementation of permanent fix where necessary.
  • Responsible for planning and implementation of minimal to significant changes based on the business requirement and maintenance activities in line with change management processes and governance.
  • Work with regional and global counterparts, Product Engineering, Product Managers and Service Managers for input and to understand influence new solutions and the on boarding of new services.
  • Ensure the integrity and stability of the production data network is maintained.
  • Ensure accurate network infrastructure support documentation is maintained.
  • Take responsibility for completing tasks, focusing on requirements and planning to meet stakeholder needs.
  • Keep and update knowledge of the bank's Infrastructure Products and Services.
  • May telecommute pursuant to company policies. [Hybrid role]


Minimum Salary: $158,875 per year

Maximum Salary: $160,000 per year

The minimum and maximum salary/rate information above includes only base salary or base hourly rate. It does not include any other type of compensation or benefits that may be available.

Barclays employees are eligible for a suite of a competitive and generous employee benefits, including medical, dental and vision coverage, 401(k), life insurance, and other paid leave for qualifying circumstances.

This position is eligible for an incentive award.

About Barclays

Barclays is a British multinational investment bank and financial services company. The company was founded in 1690 and is headquartered in London, England. Barclays provides a range of financial services, including retail banking, corporate banking, investment banking, and wealth management. The company operates in over 40 countries and has over 83,000 employees. In 2020, Barclays reported revenue of £21.8 billion and net income of £1.5 billion. The company is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.
Learn more about Barclays
Size
81,600 employees
Market Cap
$30.2 billion
Industry
Net Income
$2.3 billion
Founded
1997
5 Year Trend
-5%
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