Senior Blockchain DevOps Engineer - AVP – Digital Assets

As a Senior Blockchain DevOps Engineer (AVP) in Digital Assets at Barclays, you will build and operate the DevOps, automation, deployment, and observability capabilities for Barclays' next-generation Digital Assets Platform (BDAP). You will enable 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. Working closely with blockchain engineers, wallet engineers, security teams, infrastructure, architecture, risk, and operations, you will automate deployments, strengthen production readiness, improve observability, and ensure platform components are delivered and operated safely within a highly controlled banking environment.

What you'll do

• Build, deliver, and maintain high-quality infrastructure solutions to fulfill business requirements, ensuring measurable reliability, performance, availability, and ease of use, and identifying appropriate technologies to meet business, optimization, and resourcing needs
• Monitor IT infrastructure and system performance to measure, identify, address, and resolve potential issues, vulnerabilities, or outages, using data to drive down mean time to resolution
• Develop and implement automated tasks and processes to improve efficiency and reduce manual intervention, utilizing software scripting and coding disciplines
• Implement secure configurations and measures to protect infrastructure against cyber-attacks, vulnerabilities, and other security threats, including protection of hardware, software, and data from unauthorized access
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product managers, architects, blockchain engineers, wallet engineers, and other engineers to define infrastructure requirements, devise solutions, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives
• 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
• Advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development, and take responsibility for operational effectiveness; lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured work
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and develop new policies and procedures in support of the control and governance agenda
• Communicate complex information and influence stakeholders to achieve outcomes

What you bring

• Experience building and operating DevOps capabilities for mission-critical production platforms, including CI/CD, release automation, environment management, infrastructure automation, and production deployment support
• 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
• 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
• Ability to implement 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
• Experience applying AI-assisted engineering, DevSecOps, and automation practices to improve deployment quality, accelerate troubleshooting, reduce operational risk, enhance release consistency, and support continuous improvement

Nice to have

• 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

What we offer

• Salary of $120,000 to $175,000 (base salary)
• Eligibility for an incentive award
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• 401(k)
• Life insurance
• Paid leave for qualifying circumstances

About Barclays

Barclays is building next-generation banking solutions and digital asset infrastructure for institutional use cases including tokenized deposits, stablecoins, and securities tokenization across open and permissioned networks. This role is based in Whippany, NJ.