Senior Blockchain DevOps Engineer - AVP – Digital Assets

Software Engineering

Job Description

Purpose of 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.

Accountabilities

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.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes
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 lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively.
Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.

Embark on a transformative journey as a Senior Blockchain DevOps Engineer - AVP – Digital Assets. At Barclays, our vision is clear –to redefine the future of banking and help craft innovative solutions. In this role, you will join a team working at the ground floor of a 0-to-1 build. You will help build and operate the DevOps, automation, deployment, and observability capabilities that support Barclays’ next-generation Digital Assets Platform (BDAP). This role will, you will focus on enabling secure, reliable, and scalable delivery of blockchain infrastructure and institutional wallet services that support tokenized deposits, digital cash, stablecoins, tokenized securities, and other regulated digital asset use cases across open and permissioned networks. You will work closely with blockchain engineers, wallet engineers, security teams, infrastructure, architecture, risk, and operations to automate deployments, strengthen production readiness, improve observability, and ensure platform components can be delivered and operated safely within a highly controlled banking environment.

To be successful as a Senior Blockchain DevOps Engineer - AVP – Digital Assets, you should:

Have experience building and operating DevOps capabilities for mission-critical production platforms, including CI/CD, release automation, environment management, infrastructure automation, and production deployment support
Demonstrate hands-on experience deploying and operating blockchain infrastructure and wallet services, including validators, RPC services, bootnodes, transaction relayers, signing services, wallet APIs, and supporting middleware components
Have practical expertise operating platforms within controlled on-premises and hybrid environments, including network segmentation, secrets management, certificate and PKI lifecycle management, firewall controls, infrastructure hardening, and secure service connectivity
Be comfortable implementing end-to-end observability across blockchain and wallet service components, including metrics, logs, traces, transaction monitoring, node health, chain synchronization, signing workflows, service dashboards, and automated alerting
Apply AI-assisted engineering, DevSecOps, and automation practices to improve deployment quality, accelerate troubleshooting, reduce operational risk, enhance release consistency, and support continuous improvement across BDAP delivery teams

Other highly valued skills include:

Experience supporting Ethereum, Solana, Besu, and other blockchain technologies, including node lifecycle management, protocol upgrades, chain-data storage performance, validator operations, and multi-chain platform support
Knowledge of institutional wallet infrastructure, transaction authorization flows, signing services, key management integrations, custody workflows, and digital asset transaction orchestration
Experience with Kubernetes, containers, Linux, Infrastructure-as-Code, configuration management, artifact repositories, API gateways, event streaming, and enterprise platform engineering patterns
Understanding of digital asset use cases including tokenized deposits, stablecoins, digital cash, securities tokenization, wallet-driven settlement, and interoperability across open and permissioned networks
Ability to work effectively across blockchain engineering, wallet engineering, cyber security, infrastructure, architecture, operations, risk, compliance, and business teams to deliver secure, observable, and resilient platform capabilities

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in this role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role is located in our Whippany, NJ office.

Minimum Salary: $120,000

Maximum Salary: $175,000

The minimum and maximum salary/rate information above includes only base salary or base hourly rate. It does not include any other type of compensation or benefits that may be available.

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.