# Network Security Operations Lead

**Company**: Barclays
**Location**: Pune, Gera Commerzone SEZ
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

We are seeking a Network Security Operations Lead to join our team at Barclays in Pune. As a Network Security Operations Lead, you will lead and manage engineering teams, providing technical guidance, mentorship, and support to ensure the delivery of high-quality software solutions, driving technical excellence, fostering a culture of innovation, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to align technical decisions with business objectives.

**Accountabilities**

- Lead engineering teams effectively, fostering a collaborative and high-performance culture to achieve project goals and meet organisational objectives.

- Oversee timelines, team allocation, risk management, and task prioritisation to ensure the successful delivery of solutions within scope, time, and budget.

- Mentor and support team members' professional growth, conduct performance reviews, provide actionable feedback, and identify opportunities for improvement.

- Evaluate and enhance engineering processes, tools, and methodologies to increase efficiency, streamline workflows, and optimise team productivity.

- Collaborate with business partners, product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions and ensure a cohesive approach to product development.

- Enforce technology standards, facilitate peer reviews, and implement robust testing practices to ensure the delivery of high-quality solutions.

**Vice President Expectations**

- Contribute to 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.

- Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work of your team.

- Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation's functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.

**Requirements**

- Strong network fundamentals and troubleshooting: expert-level diagnosis across network security products and edge services; packet-level analysis; confident decision-making under pressure.

- Production operations and reliability: incident/problem management leadership, post-incident reviews, error budgeting/SLO thinking, and designing controls to prevent recurrence.

- Network technology breadth: solid capability across Firewalls, NAC, IDS, Proxy, and DNS and associated tooling.

- Change governance and risk: proven ability to gatekeep and execute production change safely; strong understanding of regulated controls, audit requirements, and change/incident processes.

- Automation and scripting: practical experience using Python and/or Ansible (and related tooling) to automate operational tasks, reduce toil, validate configurations, and improve reliability at scale.

**Desirable Skills**

- Reliability engineering and observability: experience defining operational KPIs/SLOs, improving monitoring/alert quality, reducing noise, and driving proactive prevention.

- Advanced automation and IaC: experience with CI/CD patterns for network change, configuration management, testing/validation, and infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform) where applicable.

- Hybrid and cloud networking: working knowledge of cloud connectivity and hybrid patterns (AWS/Azure), including operational troubleshooting across on-prem and cloud.

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## Skills

### Required
- network security
- troubleshooting
- production operations
- reliability engineering
- automation
- scripting

### Nice to have
- observability
- advanced automation
- IaC
- hybrid and cloud networking

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