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INTRODUCTION
Embark on a transformative journey as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - VP. At Barclays, our vision is clear: to redefine the future of banking and help craft innovative, regulated digital asset solutions. In this role, you will engineer and operate the resilient, secure, and scalable infrastructure underpinning Barclays’ next generation of Digital Asset Technology, with responsibility spanning cloud platforms, production reliability, CI/CD infrastructure, security automation, disaster recovery, and operational resilience.
ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
To be successful as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - VP, you should have:
- A proven success of building and running highly available cloud and infrastructure platforms, including on-call duties, incident response, disaster simulations, contingency planning, and recovery testing
- Experience building and maintaining deployment and operational infrastructure, such as CI/CD platforms, source code hosting, development tooling, and infrastructure automation, and supporting specialized infrastructure across cloud and colocation environments
- Demonstrated ownership of security and service infrastructure, using ample Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices to automate provisioning, access and security controls, cloud security posture, and organization-wide technology policies, and leading CI/CD incident response to protect critical deployment pipelines
- A commitment to continuously strengthening service reliability, observability, performance, capacity, and resilience, using automation, monitoring, and metrics to find and fix operational weaknesses
- The ability to work closely with engineering, architecture, cyber security, infrastructure, risk, and operations teams to build reliability and operational resilience by design into every stage of the Digital Asset Technology platform lifecycle
Other highly valued skills include:
- Hands-on experience with AWS or other major cloud platforms, Kubernetes, containers, Terraform, Infrastructure as Code, and configuration management, including operating hybrid infrastructure across public cloud, enterprise, and colocation environments
- Proven expertise in CI/CD engineering, Git-based source control, secrets and certificate management, infrastructure access controls, and automated security controls
- A solid working knowledge of observability, monitoring, logging, alerting, incident management, disaster recovery, capacity management, and production engineering
- Familiarity with Digital Asset Technology infrastructure, such as blockchain/DLT nodes, validators, RPC infrastructure, wallets, HSM/MPC services, and cryptographic key-management infrastructure
- A foundation in distributed systems, network reliability, secure engineering, automation, and production operations within highly regulated environments
You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.
PURPOSE:
To design, develop and improve software, utilising various engineering methodologies, that provides business, platform, and technology capabilities for our customers and colleagues.
ACCOUNTABILITIES
- Development and delivery of high-quality software solutions by using industry aligned programming languages, frameworks, and tools. Ensuring that code is scalable, maintainable, and optimized for performance.
- Cross-functional collaboration with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define software requirements, devise solution strategies, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives.
- Collaboration with peers, participate in code reviews, and promote a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing.
- 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.
- Adherence to secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities, protect sensitive data, and ensure secure software solutions.
- Implementation of effective unit testing practices to ensure proper code design, readability, and reliability.
VICE PRESIDENT EXPECTATIONS
- To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures.
- If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements.
- 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 be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions.
- Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.
- Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
- Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
- Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
- Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
- Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
- Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
- Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Minimum Salary: $170,000
- Maximum Salary: $230,000
The minimum and maximum salary/rate information above include only base salary or base hourly rate. It does not include any other type of compensation or benefits that may be available.
LOCATION
This role is located in our Whippany, NJ office.
Barclays employees are eligible for a suite of 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.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Green Card Sponsorship as a Sre Engineer
Document your SRE credentials before applying
Compile proof of reliability engineering work: incident reports you authored, SLO frameworks you designed, and on-call runbooks you maintained. PERM requires your employer to define a specific job requirement, and your credentials must align precisely with that definition.
Target employers with active PERM filing history
Search the DOL PERM disclosure data for companies that have certified SRE or site reliability engineer positions in the past two years. Employers already familiar with the PERM process move faster and make fewer costly procedural errors during your case.
Clarify whether EB-2 or EB-3 fits your background
EB-2 requires an advanced degree or a bachelor's plus five years of progressive SRE experience. If you hold only a bachelor's, EB-3 covers you as a skilled worker. Your category affects priority date queues, especially for nationals from India or China.
Use Migrate Mate to find sponsoring SRE employers
Filter by job title and green card sponsorship status on Migrate Mate to surface companies actively hiring SRE engineers through EB-2 or EB-3. Targeting pre-screened employers saves months of outreach to companies that don't sponsor at all.
Negotiate the PERM job description before signing
The PERM application locks in your job duties and minimum requirements permanently. Before accepting an offer, confirm the written job description matches your actual role and degree. A mismatch discovered after filing forces a restart and loses your priority date.
Understand the prevailing wage before your offer stage
DOL requires your employer to pay at least the prevailing wage for your SRE role and location. Look up your wage level using the OFLC Wage Search before negotiations so you can verify the offer clears the threshold PERM requires.
Green Card Sre Engineer: Frequently Asked Questions
Do SRE engineer roles qualify for EB-2 or EB-3 green card sponsorship?
SRE engineer positions typically qualify for both EB-2 and EB-3 depending on your credentials. EB-2 applies if you hold a master's degree or a bachelor's plus five years of progressive SRE experience. EB-3 covers candidates with a bachelor's degree and a qualifying job offer. Your employer files the PERM labor certification first under whichever category fits your background.
How does green card sponsorship differ from H-1B for SRE roles?
H-1B visa is a temporary status requiring renewal every three years with no guaranteed path to permanency, while EB-2 and EB-3 green card sponsorship through PERM leads directly to lawful permanent residency. There's no annual lottery for EB-3, and the process isn't capped in the same way H-1B registration is. The tradeoff is timeline: PERM typically takes one to two years before you even reach the I-140 stage, and priority date queues can extend that significantly for some nationalities.
What does the PERM labor certification process look like for an SRE position?
Your employer files a PERM application with DOL certifying that no qualified U.S. workers are available for the SRE role at the prevailing wage. This requires a formal recruitment campaign, including job postings and documented outreach. DOL reviews the application and, if approved, your employer files an I-140 immigrant petition with USCIS. Once that's approved and your priority date is current, you can file for adjustment of status or consular processing.
How can I find SRE engineering jobs that sponsor green cards?
Most job postings don't specify green card sponsorship availability, which makes identifying the right employers time-consuming. Migrate Mate lets you filter SRE engineering roles by EB-2 and EB-3 sponsorship status, surfacing companies with confirmed green card filing history. That's a faster starting point than applying broadly and asking about sponsorship after an interview.
Can my SRE experience substitute for an advanced degree in the EB-2 category?
Yes, under EB-2, DOL and USCIS allow a bachelor's degree combined with at least five years of progressive post-degree experience in the specialty to substitute for an advanced degree. For SRE roles, progressive means increasing responsibility, not just years logged. Document promotions, scope expansions, and leadership of reliability engineering initiatives to build that record clearly before the PERM filing starts.