# Windows Server Engineering Lead

**Company**: Barclays
**Location**: Knutsford
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

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**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_6841661d-7e2

## Description

We are seeking a Windows Server Engineering Lead to shape the strategic direction of our enterprise Windows Server product. You will play a central role in defining and executing the engineering roadmap for our Windows Server offering, driving infrastructure-as-code, self-service capabilities, operating system modernisation, and engineering excellence at scale.

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:

- Deep expertise in Windows Server platform engineering, operating system architecture, standardisation, and enterprise-scale platform design.

- Infrastructure-as-Code and configuration management at scale using Ansible, Chef, Terraform, or equivalent automation frameworks.

- Software engineering approach to infrastructure automation using PowerShell, Python, Ruby, YAML, CI/CD pipelines, version control, and testing.

Preferred Skills:

- Security and compliance, including Windows Server hardening, vulnerability and patch management, and privileged access management technologies such as BeyondTrust Endpoint Privileged Management (EPM).

- Experience building internal platform products and self-service infrastructure capabilities.

- Experience designing reusable infrastructure patterns.

- Experience implementing Infrastructure-as-Code, GitOps, CI/CD, and automated testing practices.

- Strong understanding of platform observability engineering and telemetry-driven design.

- Experience driving operating system modernisation and technology strategy across large-scale enterprise environments.

## Skills

### Required
- Windows Server
- Infrastructure-as-Code
- PowerShell
- Python
- Ruby
- YAML
- CI/CD pipelines
- version control
- testing

### Nice to have
- Security and compliance
- BeyondTrust Endpoint Privileged Management
- GitOps
- platform observability engineering
- telemetry-driven design

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