Lead Software Engineer - Network Automation
Barclays · Pune · Posted 2026-07-18
Tech stack: AWS, Azure, GCP, Golang, Java, Python
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About the role
To build and maintain infrastructure platforms and products that support applications and data systems, using hardware, software, networks, and cloud computing platforms as required with the aim of ensuring that the infrastructure is reliable, scalable, and secure. Ensure the reliability, availability, and scalability of the systems, platforms, and technology through the application of software engineering techniques, automation, and best practices in incident response.
Responsibilities:
- Build Engineering: Development, delivery, and maintenance of high-quality infrastructure solutions to fulfil business requirements ensuring measurable reliability, performance, availability, and ease of use. Including the identification of the appropriate technologies and solutions to meet business, optimisation, and resourcing requirements.
- Incident Management: Monitoring of IT infrastructure and system performance to measure, identify, address, and resolve any potential issues, vulnerabilities, or outages. Use of data to drive down mean time to resolution.
- Automation: Development and implementation of automated tasks and processes to improve efficiency and reduce manual intervention, utilising software scripting/coding disciplines.
- Security: Implementation of a secure configuration and measures to protect infrastructure against cyber-attacks, vulnerabilities, and other security threats, including protection of hardware, software, and data from unauthorised access.
- Teamwork: Cross-functional collaboration with product managers, architects, and other engineers to define IT Infrastructure requirements, devise solutions, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives via a data driven approach.
- Learning: 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.
Qualifications:
- Lead Software Engineer - Network Automation
- in the Barclays OSS Platform Engineering team, you should possess the following skillsets:
- Hands-on expertise with IaC, Cloud Platforms, CI/CD Pipelines, Containerization & Orchestration and SRE principles; in a product organization with Network products.
- Strong Knowledge and demonstrable hands-on experience with Networking - Routing & Switching, Network Security and Data Centre Technologies (BGP, VXLAN/EVPN, Spine-Leaf implementation, NGFW, IDS/IPS, NAC, Segmentation etc). Expertise building highly available and secure networks for low latency and high throughput applications.
- Expert knowledge of Cloud Networking (AWS/Azure/GCP) and Hybrid cloud connectivity - with expertise setting up TCO efficient resilient cloud connectivity for applications across multiple geo-locations and availability zones.
- Expertise working in Network and infrastructure operational product engineering and knowledge of network element management plane, control plane, data plane and fast switching. A very good understanding of Network Protocols - TCP/IP, UDP, HTTP/HTTPS, DNS, DHCP, BGP, OSPF, VXLAN, IPSec, etc. CCNA or equivalent certification an added advantage.
- Expertise in Network Security and Network Automation an added advantage. Specifically experience with concepts of zero trust, TLS/SSL, VPNs and concepts like gNMI/gRPC, RESTCONF etc.
- Programming expertise in one of the high-level languages like Python, Java, Golang alongside proficiency in Agile Methodologies Scrum/Kanban, backlog and workflow mgmt. and SRE specific reporting (MTTR, deployment frequency, SLO etc).
- You may be assessed on the key critical skil
- 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.
- This role is based in our Pune or Bengaluru office.
Qualifications
- Lead Software Engineer Network Automation in the Barclays OSS Platform Engineering team, you should possess the following skillsets:
- Hands-on expertise with IaC, Cloud Platforms, CI/CD Pipelines, Containerization & Orchestration and SRE principles; in a product organization with Network products.
- Strong Knowledge and demonstrable hands-on experience with Networking
- Routing & Switching, Network Security and Data Centre Technologies (BGP, VXLAN/EVPN, Spine-Leaf implementation, NGFW, IDS/IPS, NAC, Segmentation etc).
- Expertise building highly available and secure networks for low latency and high throughput applications.
- Expert knowledge of Cloud Networking (AWS/Azure/GCP) and Hybrid cloud connectivity - with expertise setting up TCO efficient resilient cloud connectivity for applications across multiple geo-locations and availability zones.
- Expertise working in Network and infrastructure operational product engineering and knowledge of network element management plane, control plane, data plane and fast switching.
- A very good understanding of Network Protocols
- TCP/IP, UDP, HTTP/HTTPS, DNS, DHCP, BGP, OSPF, VXLAN, IPSec, etc.
- CCNA or equivalent certification an added advantage.
- Expertise in Network Security and Network Automation an added advantage.
- Specifically experience with concepts of zero trust, TLS/SSL, VPNs and concepts like gNMI/gRPC, RESTCONF etc.
- Programming expertise in one of the high-level languages like Python, Java, Golang alongside proficiency in Agile Methodologies Scrum/Kanban, backlog and workflow mgmt. and SRE specific reporting (MTTR, deployment frequency, SLO etc).
- You may be assessed on the key critical skil 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.
- This role is based in our Pune or Bengaluru office.
Responsibilities
- Build Engineering: Development, delivery, and maintenance of high-quality infrastructure solutions to fulfil business requirements ensuring measurable reliability, performance, availability, and ease of use.
- Including the identification of the appropriate technologies and solutions to meet business, optimisation, and resourcing requirements.
- Incident Management: Monitoring of IT infrastructure and system performance to measure, identify, address, and resolve any potential issues, vulnerabilities, or outages.
- Use of data to drive down mean time to resolution.
- Automation: Development and implementation of automated tasks and processes to improve efficiency and reduce manual intervention, utilising software scripting/coding disciplines.
- Security: Implementation of a secure configuration and measures to protect infrastructure against cyber-attacks, vulnerabilities, and other security threats, including protection of hardware, software, and data from unauthorised access.
- Teamwork: Cross-functional collaboration with product managers, architects, and other engineers to define IT Infrastructure requirements, devise solutions, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives via a data driven approach.
- Learning: 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.