Assistant VP, Systems Administration
Location: Whippany
Posted on: June 23, 2025
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Job Description:
What will you be doing? Barclays Services Corp seeks Assistant
VP, Systems Administration in Whippany, NJ (multiple positions
available): 1. Prevent and resolve incidents in the Barclays UNIX
infrastructure. 2. Administer, test, and implement various scale
change within the UNIX environment and databases. 3. Monitor UNIX
environment, coordinate system development, and determine project
scope and limitations. 4. Specify users, develop software
guidelines, review database procedures, and monitor database
performance. 5. Modify existing UNIX infrastructure and management
systems to transform UNIX function. 6. Review project requests from
users, estimate time and cost required. 7. Partner with fellow UNIX
engineers to develop automation tooling, methods for product
integration, incident review, and customize servers for bank
clients using OpenStack, OpenShift, and RedHat. 8. Analyze user
access related tasks and queries, train users, and provide
technical support for clients. 9. Plan, coordinate, and implement
security measures to safeguard information against accidental or
unauthorized damage, modification, or disclosure. 10. Analyze,
test, troubleshoot, and evaluate existing cloud networks for
Barclays’ Application Platform as a Service (aPaaS) Cloud team
within the Private Cloud and Middleware group. 11. May telecommute.
Salary Minimum: $159,087 per year Salary Maximum: $160,000 per year
The minimum and maximum salary/rate information above include only
base salary or base hourly rate. It does not include any other type
of compensation or benefits that may be available . This position
is eligible for incentives pursuant to Barclays Employee Referral
Program. Purpose of the role To effectively monitor and maintain
the bank’s critical technology infrastructure and resolve more
complex technical issues, whilst minimising disruption to
operations. Accountabilities Provision of technical support for the
service management function to resolve more complex issues for a
specific client of group of clients. Develop the support model and
service offering to improve the service to customers and
stakeholders. Execution of preventative maintenance tasks on
hardware and software and utilisation of monitoring tools/metrics
to identify, prevent and address potential issues and ensure
optimal performance. Maintenance of a knowledge base containing
detailed documentation of resolved cases for future reference,
self-service opportunities and knowledge sharing. Analysis of
system logs, error messages and user reports to identify the root
causes of hardware, software and network issues, and providing a
resolution to these issues by fixing or replacing faulty hardware
components, reinstalling software, or applying configuration
changes. Automation, monitoring enhancements, capacity management,
resiliency, business continuity management, front office specific
support and stakeholder management. Identification and remediation
or raising, through appropriate process, of potential service
impacting risks and issues. Proactively assess support activities
implementing automations where appropriate to maintain stability
and drive efficiency. Actively tune monitoring tools, thresholds,
and alerting to ensure issues are known when they occur. 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.
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