Job Description

Job Title: Lead Network Product Engineering

Location: Pune

About Barclays

Barclays is a British universal bank. We are diversified by business, by different types of customers and clients, and by geography. Our businesses include consumer banking and payments operations around the world, as well as a top-tier, full service, global corporate and investment bank, all of which are supported by our service company which provides technology, operations and functional services across the Group.

Risk and Control Objective

Ensure that all activities and duties are carried out in full compliance with regulatory requirements, Enterprise Wide Risk Management Framework and internal Barclays Policies and Policy Standards.

Working Flexibly

We\xe2\x80\x99re committed to providing a supportive and inclusive culture and environment for you to work in. This environment recognises and supports ways to balance your personal needs, alongside the professional needs of our business. Providing the opportunity for all our employees, globally to work flexibly empowers each of us to work in a way that suits our lives as well as enabling us to better service our customers\xe2\x80\x99 and clients\xe2\x80\x99 needs. Whether you have family commitments or you\xe2\x80\x99re a carer, or whether you need study time or wish to pursue personal interests, our approach to working flexibly is designed to help you balance your life.

If you would like some flexibility then please discuss this with the hiring manager.

Introduction:

The Product Engineering role will report to the Head of Product Engineering and will work with other members of the team and key stakeholders to test and certify products and service and produce standards documentation.

Overall team responsibilities will include:

• Work with key stakeholders and customers to understand requirements, and define appropriate standards
• Work closely with the Product Management teams to create and maintain the technical strategy and product roadmap for Core Networks

• Perform product testing and certification to ensure all products and services are rigorously tested, secure, stable and fit for consumption

• Development of build standards to govern the deployment of products and services within Core Networks
• Own the Product Security Incident Response and Vulnerability Management processes and procedures for all Core Networks products
• Define the technical standards for Core Networks products at Barclays
• Provide technical leadership, oversight and governance for network deployment and operations teams
• Ensure Product Engineering deliverables dovetail with automation in other technology streams, providing unified coherent solutions across functional verticals and business units.
• Produce documentation to a consistent and high standard

What will you be doing?

• Within the team each Product Engineer will be directly responsible for a subset of technologies and services, this will involve:

• Understanding and recording the requirements for the product/service
• Building testing environments and defining test plans
• Ensuring products and services are rigorously tested, secure, stable and fit for consumption
• Recording test results and creating build standards
• Ensuring products are integrated with relevant Barclays management and monitoring systems
• Contribute to the technical architecture & design standards for Core Network Product at Barclays
• To Create and maintain strong relationships with your stakeholder network, ensuring network products are relevant and meet the required outcomes
• Continually assess market capabilities and industry best practices to ensure Barclays is adopting the most relevant products and service
• Contribute to the definition of the target architecture for network products within the bank
• Contribute to development and prioritisation of the release roadmap for Core Networks
• Ensure product standards comply to all relevant security, compliance and audit policies and regulations

What we\xe2\x80\x99re looking for:

• Bachelors\xe2\x80\x99 Degree and or equivalent, in one of the following areas: Computer Science, Software Engineering, Telecommunication Networks, Electrical Engineering
• The candidate must have extensive network engineering skills within a large multi-site global financial environment or equivalent scale service provider
• The candidate must be experienced in driving, adoption of new and transformational technologies

Essential Skills/Basic Qualifications:

• Drive the Life Cycle Engineering Team deliveries for design, testing and certification activities for Network and Voice Engineering Products
• Drive the Team to create various standards (configurations, designs and templates for automation capabilities, Buy/Hold/Sell version maintenance, mitigation for vulnerabilities) for the Network and Voice Products
• Good Experience from DC /Campus to Multi-cloud environment like AWS, AZURE an SAAS based services providers and private cloud using VMware NSX
• Good experience in DC SDN Technologies \xe2\x80\x93 Cisco ACI, SDA
• Experience including designing / building /testing on F5 and Avi based load balancing for local and global load balancing solution.
• Experience in designing / building /testing network security products in multivendor area like Cisco, Fortinet, Checkpoint, Palo Alto, Versa, VMware, which covers physical, virtual and cloud environment.
• Good awareness of Security products such as Firewalls, NAC/AAA (ISE/Forescout), Web Proxy, UTM appliances, WAF, DDoS mitigation technologies, etc.
• Excellent working experience on Infoblox for DNS, DHCP, IPAM and NTP.
• Excellent experience in designing/building large, highly scalable, and reliable Infoblox grids for DNS, DHCP, NTP
• Excellent working experience on Symantec (Bluecoat) Proxy and integration with DLP and Antivirus
• Experience in designing/building enterprise Proxy solution (appliance or virtual) with DLP and Antivirus
• Good knowledge on SAML and SSO to integrate with Proxy
• Good in Security features like Web Proxy, UTM appliances, WAF, DDoS mitigation technologies, etc.
• Conversant with working in DevOps based model which is to focus on configuring network components based on various APIs \xe2\x80\x93 like REST API, SSL, NETCONF and conversant with JSON, XML based data structure
• Excellent in managing product life cycle which includes activities performance/functional/tools integration testing, bug analysis and remediation, vulnerability management, etc.
• Excellent in using traffic testing tools like Spirent, Ixia etc.

Working knowledge of DevOps tools like Ansible and Django framework

Skills that will help you in the role:

• Desirable to have good knowledge on Ansible /Python environment for network automation/scripting

Where will you be working?

Pune

Be More at Barclays

At Barclays, each day is about being more \xe2\x80\x93 as a professional, and as a person. \xe2\x80\x98Be More @ Barclays\xe2\x80\x99 represents our core promise to all current and future employees. It\xe2\x80\x99s the characteristic that we want to be associated with as an employer, and at the heart of every employee experience. We empower our colleagues to Be More Globally Connected, working on international projects that improve the way millions of customers handle their finances. Be More Inspired by working alongside the most talented people in the industry, and delivering imaginative new solutions that are redefining the future of finance. Be More Impactful by having the opportunity to work on cutting-edge projects, and Be More Valued for who you are.

Interested and want to know more about Barclays? Visit home.barclays/who-we-are/ for more details.

Purpose, Values and Mindset

We deploy finance responsibly to support people and businesses, acting with empathy and integrity, championing innovation and sustainability, for the common good and the long term.

Our values underpin everything we do: Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship.

Respect

We harness the power of diversity and inclusion in our business, trust those we work with, and value everyone\'s contribution.

Integrity

We operate with honesty, transparency and fairness in all we do.

Service

We act with empathy and humility, putting the people and businesses we serve at the centre of what we do.

Excellence

We champion innovation, and use our energy, expertise and resources to make a positive difference.

Stewardship

We prize sustainability, and are passionate about leaving things better than we found them.

Our Mindset shapes how we take action, living by our Values, driven by our Purpose, always with our customers and clients at the heart of what we do; our Mindset is to Empower, Challenge and Drive.

Empower

Trust and support each other to deliver. Make decisions with those closest to the topic. Include diverse perspectives. Celebrate success and learn from failure.

Challenge

Question whether things can be done better. Use insights based on data to inform decisions. Be curious about how we can adapt and improve. Speak up and be open to alternative viewpoints.

Drive

Focus on outcomes. Deliver with pace. Be passionate and ambitious about what we do. Take personal responsibility. Actively build collaborative relationships to get things done.

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