Job Title : ELK Developer
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

Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work you do

Working Flexibly

We’re 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’ and clients’ needs. Whether you have family commitments or you’re 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, and your request will be reviewed subject to business needs.

Hybrid Working

Structured hybrid role:
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.

Introduction:

This role spans across leading / working on multiple projects or modules and coordinating with teams to understand and support the test requirements and implement and maintain them.

What will you be doing?

Elasticsearch in payment landscape is used for monitoring payments flowing through various critical payment applications within payment landscape. The ELK Sr developer role leverages in-depth knowledge of ELK to advise stakeholders of Elasticsearch capabilities, design and develop ELK based monitoring solutions, manage appropriate infrastructure changes/uplifts, ensure successful service introduction, and provide SME support for deployed solutions/ELK apps.

What we’re looking for:

• Very good at Stakeholder management
• Raising the RAIDs at appropriate level
• Work on Lessons Learnt after Project Closure.
• Share the knowledge with wider teams.
• Participate in the initiatives impacting Build and at least Own 1 initiative which will help improve build delivery /innovative idea to reduce waste etc.
• Participate in the initiatives impacting wider teams.
• Participate in the initiatives impacting Barclays PLC Participate in the initiatives impacting Community and Citizenship.
• Must demonstrate Barclays Values by taking the ownership of the tasks assigned and also going beyond to achieve the objectives.
• Minimum qualification like BE, BCA, BTech or any other technical qualification

Skills that will help you in the role:

• Familiar with various logstash use cases, experience with use of different plugins for inputs, filters, outputs.
• Familiar with Elasticsearch query DSL, ideally has experience with use of aggregations and scripting in more complex Elasticsearch queries
• Familiar with Kibana out-of-the -box visualization functionality, has built dashboards for different use cases
• Familiar with use of filebeat and metricbeat and/or elastic agent
• Awareness of alerting use cases (using watcher and/or kibana alerts)
• Awareness of role based access models in Kibana
• Awareness of Elastic APIs e.g. search, bulk, index, security APIs.
• Awareness of ELK stack architecture and administration (e.g. index lifecycle management using templates and ILM policies, concepts like shards and replicas for optimising resiliency and performance of Elasticsearch clusters)
• Experience with DevOps tools (use of version control e.g. git, some awareness of build orchestration tools e.g. Jenkins and package repos e.g. Nexus)
• Basic SQL querying knowledge
• Experience with more advanced ELK use cases e.g. watchers with custom scripting and actions, more complex logstash pipelines (perhaps including pipeline chaining), more advanced custom visualizations in Kibana e.g. canvas, vega.
• Experience with other similar tools to ELK stack e.g. Splunk
• Experience with scripting languages for automation e.g. Bash, Python
• Experience with Kafka
• Experience with AWS
• Experience with technically leading feature team to deliver projects scope as part of sprint cycles.
• Has worked directly with end users on initial stages of projects such as requirements gathering and impact assessment.

Where will you be working?
Pune


Be More at Barclays
At Barclays, each day is about being more – as a professional, and as a person. ‘Be More @ Barclays’ represents our core promise to all current and future employees. It’s 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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