Onsite Principal Engineer – Public Cloud, GCP

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About the role

  • Principal Engineer for GCP at Barclays driving secure platform design and engaging with multiple stakeholders. Providing technical leadership and defining GCP product strategy in financial services.

Responsibilities

  • Be the recognised expert within GTIS Cloud Platforms and the firm for the GCP platform, with strong knowledge of at least one other public cloud hyperscaler.
  • Set the strategic direction and provide visionary leadership for the GCP product roadmap.
  • Drive a secure, resilient and scalable platform while providing a best-in-class engineering experience to our internal customers.
  • Build strong partnerships to foster cross-organisation collaboration.
  • Develop, customise, and integrate secure patterns to allow the successful design and build of scalable multi-region platform design to support critical services.
  • Implement security and controls to meet necessary compliance and regulatory needs for protection of data and assets in the public cloud.
  • Drive platform reliability through chaos engineering, SRE, Observability and incident response excellence.
  • Build self-service platform capabilities reducing time-to-production for application teams.

Requirements

  • Extensive experience of working within financial services across several technology domains, with experience across GCP and at least one other hyperscaler.
  • Extensive experience in designing and delivering resilient production GCP platforms in a regulated Financial Services environment.
  • Expert track record of working collaboratively and developing strong, productive internal and external relationships across a matrixed global organisation.
  • Application of modern development practices, inc. spec-driven AI coding, TDD, DORA metrics, pair programming and code reviews.
  • Highly organised, diligent and skilled in managing complex projects (both strategic and tactical) using Agile and lean methodologies.
  • Able to explain complex GCP architecture decisions to technical and non-technical stakeholders, and produce clear technical documentation (ADRs, runbooks).
  • A world class technical communicator, able to command respect from peers and junior engineers alike.
  • Deep expertise and proven acumen in diagnosing distributed systems issues - network analysis, trace correlation, GCP-native debugging.

Benefits

  • Professional development opportunities
  • Flexible working hours
  • Health insurance
  • Paid time off

Job title

Principal Engineer – Public Cloud, GCP

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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