Network Engineer - AVP

Date live: 09/09/2026

Business Area: GTIS

Area of Expertise: Technology

Contract: Permanent

Reference Code: JR-0000111151

Salary / Rate $ 120,000.00 - $ 175,000.00

Embark on a transformative journey as a Network Engineer - AVP. At Barclays, our vision is clear – to redefine the future of banking and help craft innovative solutions. In this role, you will be responsible for the design, build, and run of Barclays’ global network infrastructure platforms and connectivity products across data center, core, campus, branch, and edge environments. This role requires technical knowledge across routing, switching, data center and core networks, campus and branch infrastructure, wireless, WAN, and edge technologies, including SD WAN, remote access, and supporting network services such as load balancing, DNS, DHCP, IP Address Management (IPAM), and proxy solutions. As part of Barclays’ Networks Modernization journey, you will be responsible for the delivery of modern, resilient network platforms, driving automation, DevOps practices, and product centric ways of working to improve scalability, security, and speed of delivery. You will act as a technical authority, shaping network architecture and design direction, guiding multi-faceted delivery, and ensuring network platforms meet business, regulatory, and operational requirements.

To be successful as a Network Engineer - AVP, you should have:

• Deep practical project delivery experience across enterprise grade networks, including BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, multicast, QoS, MPLS, private circuits, metro Ethernet, and network segmentation
• Considerable experience designing, implementing, and operating modern datacenter environments, including spine leaf architectures, VXLAN/EVPN, DCI, ACI, and DWDM
• Extensive experience in designing and implementing advance data networks with Cisco, Arista, Fortinet and F5 platforms
• Demonstrated experience designing and operating enterprise Wi Fi solutions, and SDWAN solutions
• Established experience in delivering large scale data networks, working with key stakeholders to provide end-to-end network design and deployment across LAN, MAN, WAN, data center, Wireless, extranet, and branch environments

Other highly valued skills include:

• Good understanding of resiliency and traffic engineering patterns, including redundancy models, segmentation, firewall integration, and traffic optimization
• Ability to assess and improve platform availability
• Practical experience implementing network automation using Cisco NSO, Ansible, and/or Python, with a focus on consistency, scale, and risk reduction
• Experience designing and supporting enterprise connectivity to AWS and/or Azure, including hybrid architectures, routing integration, and secure connectivity patterns

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role is located in our Whippany, NJ office.

Minimum Salary: $120,000

Maximum Salary: $175,000

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.

Barclays employees are eligible for a suite of competitive and generous employee benefits, including medical, dental and vision coverage, 401(k), life insurance, and other paid leave for qualifying circumstances.

This position is eligible for an incentive award.

Purpose of the role

To build and maintain infrastructure platforms and products that support applications and data systems, using hardware, software, networks, and cloud computing platforms as required with the aim of ensuring that the infrastructure is reliable, scalable, and secure. Ensure the reliability, availability, and scalability of the systems, platforms, and technology through the application of software engineering techniques, automation, and best practices in incident response.

Accountabilities

• Build Engineering: Development, delivery, and maintenance of high-quality infrastructure solutions to fulfil business requirements ensuring measurable reliability, performance, availability, and ease of use. Including the identification of the appropriate technologies and solutions to meet business, optimisation, and resourcing requirements.
• Incident Management: Monitoring of IT infras…