Release Manager

Release Manager

Knutsford

As a Barclays Release Manager, you will support DevOps initiative to move our current applications in a delivery model that support Cloud, CI/CD automated testing and deployment of infrastructure as code. You will be responsible for creating technology solutions to meet business requirements, in line with Cluster and Group IT strategies and architectures. You will demonstrate ownership and control of Corporate and Payment owned code assets, providing date to day management and guidance to the technical subject matter experience.

Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, established in 1690, with a legacy of success, quality, and innovation. We offer careers that provide endless opportunity – helping millions of individuals and businesses thrive and creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted.

At Barclays, we offer a hybrid working experience that blends the positives of working alongside colleagues at our onsite locations, together with working from home. We have a structured approach where colleagues work at an onsite location on fixed, ‘anchor', days of the week, for a minimum of two days a week or more, as set by the business area (or nearest equivalent if working part-time hours). Please discuss the working pattern requirements for the role you are applying for with the hiring manager. Please note that as we continue to embed our hybrid working environment, we remain in a test and learn phase, which means that working arrangements may be subject to change on reasonable notice to ensure we meet the needs of our business.

What will you be doing?

• Managing client expectations and demands whilst maintaining excellent client relationships

• Managing the deployments in pre-production environments with self-service deployments and by facilitating deployments from external teams on multi-platform systems

• Maintaining a record of actual deployments and other knowledge contents, producing weekly KPIs that are consistent and adhering to EaaS standards

• You will work with Project and Release Leads in order to set up and manage environment release calendars, aligning release management team as per the plan setup release calendar

• Identifying and managing risks in the day to day activities, reporting to line management in an appropriate and timely manner

• Ensuring process and best practice of release management are followed and involve regular reviews of existing Release management processes, and process improvements

• Maintaining Application and infrastructure version details are up-to date across the environment landscape and perform upgrades of environments as required

• Preparing and maintaining weekly and monthly reports for waste data extract and count of Releases completed

What we're looking for:

• Hands-on experience with CICD with Jenkins and other common DevOps tools including Git/Stash, Jenkins, Nexus, Chef, Docker, SonarQube and Checkmarx

• Proficient in Openshift V4/Docker to build, configure, deploy & maintain Applications in Platform as a Service (PaaS

• Linux shell scripting, expect shell scripting and windows batch scripting experience

• Understanding of Web & Application servers/architecture e.g JBoss, Tomca and well versed in internet architectures - web, application/database components – such as Apache, Jboss, Oracle

Skills that will help you in the role:

• Capability to design build and provide end to end solutions for DevOps CI/CD automation, Containerisation

• Hands on experience in groovy scripting

• Familiar with Chef, terraform, gradle and /or ansible and scripting skills in language such as Bash, Perl, Python etc

• Experience in maintaining and extending VBA macros

Where will you be working?

You will be based in Radbroke Hall, Knutsford. The Barclays Technology Campus just outside Manchester is our Tech Command Centre and a vital strategic powerhouse behind our global operations. The campus is set in a 64-acre self-contained site, in a beautiful green environment and it offers unrivalled facilities for work and for play. We have an onsite gym, as well as outdoor tennis, football and cricket areas, as well as onsite restaurant and coffee shops.

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