Guy Roberts

Graduate Developer Analyst @Barclays

Knutsford, GB

SUMMARY Developer Analyst with 2+ years across platform engineering and observability, building and running resilient container platforms at scale while elevating team communication and early-career engagement. Specialist in OpenShift, Kubernetes, and ELK, combining systems thinking with clear, connection-focused communication to reduce toil, speed delivery, and improve incident PLATFORM ENGINEERING Supported, maintained, and evolved a multi-region Barclays Container Platform hosting thousands of live applications, including on-call coverage for true 24/7 reliability. Led OpenShift upgrades, proactive incident response, and developer onboarding to container-native workflows, unblocking teams with hands-on guidance and clear documentation. Diagnosed image promotion and internal registry issues, collaborating with application teams to enable secure, consistent delivery pipelines. Served as UK regional lead for container platform observability, aligning metrics, logs, and alerting practices across follow-the-sun ELK and Observability Built data pipelines and dashboards for payment monitoring team, turning high-volume telemetry into actionable signals for production teams. Developed ELK visualizations to surface leading indicators and inform capacity and reliability decisions. Mentored new colleagues on data ingestion, dashboard design, and ops-centric observability Communication and Leadership Co-led communications and governance for the GAIN network, coordinating a team of 12 to run events and build tools that support graduates, apprentices, and interns. Launched a new town hall series for early-career colleagues, improving cross-team visibility and connection. Played a leading role in the Radbroke Speaking Group and delivered OpenShift trainings, focusing on practical skills, audience clarity, and better questions that drive understanding.