# Vice President, Head of UNIX Operations - Specialised Infrastructure

**Company**: Barclays
**Location**: New York, New York
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $170,000.00 - $230,000.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

We are seeking a Vice President, Head of UNIX Operations - Specialised Infrastructure to lead and manage engineering teams, providing technical guidance, mentorship, and support to ensure the delivery of high-quality software solutions.

The successful candidate will shape the future of high-performance UNIX operations, modernising and scaling a critical part of Barclays' specialised infrastructure while driving meaningful improvements in efficiency, resilience, and service quality.

Responsibilities:

- 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.

Requirements:

- Experience as a Unix systems administrator with mastery-level knowledge and demonstrated experience managing Linux-based systems at scale in a repeatable manner that delivers resilience and fault-tolerance.

- Mastery-level knowledge of Redhat Products.

- Experience in using Chef and/or Ansible for end-to-end server configuration management.

- Knowledge of troubleshooting problems that affect Linux performance (jitter, latency, resilience).

- Excellent organisational and communication skills (written and verbal).

- Computer Science / Engineering or similar technical qualifications (industry certifications).

Preferred skills:

- Experience managing a team of technical individuals.

- Possess clear vision and organisational skills to manage the outcome for individuals with different personalities and levels of skill.

- Use of JIRA is a plus.

- Experience working in the financial industry or similar large tech organisation where there are high demands for Linux performance, including low latency, high throughput, low-jitter.

- Experience working with kernel-bypass or offload technologies a plus.

- Experience with Kubernetes a plus.

- Demonstrated ability to learn new technologies / concepts and introduce them into production in a controlled and stable manner.

Benefits:

- Minimum Salary: $170,000.00

- Maximum Salary: $230,000.00

## Skills

### Required
- Unix
- Linux
- Redhat Products
- Chef
- Ansible
- Troubleshooting
- Communication

### Nice to have
- JIRA
- Kubernetes
- Kernel-bypass
- Offload technologies

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