Über diese Senior Site Reliability Engineer Stelle bei Federal Reserve System
Company
Federal Reserve Bank of BostonFederal Reserve Financial Services (FRFS) delivers a suite of payments services to financial institutions via FedLine® Solutions, FedNowSM, Fedwire®, National Settlement Service (NSS), FedCash®, FedACH® (Automated Clearing House), and Check Services. We are currently leading a strategic effort to transform FRFS to a national, enterprise-focused organization. Through our evolved structure, we will meet the needs of the marketplace for new products and services more quickly, seek to provide a more robust and unified customer experience across our financial service offerings, and create new career growth opportunities for FRFS staff.The Federal Reserve has developed a new interbank 24x7x365 real-time gross settlement (RTGS) service with integrated clearing functionality, called the FedNow Service. This service enables financial institutions to provide their customers with the ability to send and receive payments any time, any day, and have full access to those funds within seconds. This position is a unique opportunity to be part of this mission-critical Federal Reserve initiative that is transforming the payments landscape in the United States.
The position will be primarily on-site with residency commutable to one of our offices required.
Candidates may come from infrastructure/DevOps backgrounds or software engineering backgrounds (e.g., Java Python, Go) with strong interest in operating and improving reliability of distributed production systems.
Responsibilities
As a Senior Engineer of the SRE / Production Operations team for FedNow, you will operate the production environment for the program.
You will architect, implement, and leverage solution monitoring and tooling to be used for capacity planning, utilization reporting, and scaling.
The team uses open source and proprietary software to support Engineering, DevOps, and DevSecOps tools, services, and solutions.
CI/CD and IaC Pipeline automation design and development.
Resiliency, DR and BCP (including testing)
The SRE / Production Operations team is part of the Technical Operations (TechOps) department and has the overall responsibility for the design, management and execution of operations required to support the ongoing technical and delivery needs of the FedNow Program, as well as the transition to production support and operations.
It owns ongoing ITIL processes, and the implementation and driving of continuous improvement initiatives.
The role applies both software engineering and system engineering practices to operate and improve large-scale distributed systems. You will work closely with Engineers and Architects of the FedNow program in order to maintain seamless automation across the entire platform.
Proactively identify suspected gaps in system architecture and design experiments to expose them
The ideal candidate is someone who loves building and maintaining reliable and scalable systems, CI/CD tooling, and automating cloud-based highly available, high performing applications.
Key Skills
Strong communication and collaboration skills
Extensive knowledge and understanding of working in AWS environments & services
EC2, EBS, EKS, RDS, Aurora, S3, Route 53, ELB, IAM, etc.
Hashicorp Terraform, Consul, Vault, and Ansible
Experience developing automation or operational tooling using scripting or programming languages such as Python, Java, Go, or similar languages.
Experience working with cloud infrastructure platforms or distributed system environments
Experience working in Linux environment and shell scripting
Experience supporting infrastructure for large multi-services applications
Experience working with continuous deployment in micro-services architectures
Experience working with Docker, Containers, ECR and EKS.
Observability - CloudWatch, OpenSearch, Dynatrace, Grafana, Prometheus
Familiarity with Fault Injection tooling
(i.e. AWS Fault Injection Simulator, Gremlin, ChaosToolkit, Chaos Monkey)
Automation mindset to enable consistency and dependability in common actions
The salary range for this position is $140,000 - $210,900. The position and job description posted is for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer however, candidates will be placed in an appropriate level within the Site Reliability Engineer job family based on the extent of their experience.
The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston is committed to provide equal employment opportunities to all persons without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, genetic information, disability, or military service.
All employees assigned to this position will be subject to FBI fingerprint/ criminal background and Patriot Act/ Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) watch list checks at least once every five years.
For this job, any offer of employment is contingent upon successfully passing a two-phase security screening. The first phase consists of the satisfactory completion of a physical examination (including a drug screening), reference checks, and a security investigation consisting of credit and criminal history checks.
The second phase, which might not be complete until after you begin working at the Reserve Bank, is an additional risk-based security screening determined by the risk rating of the position. Depending upon the sensitivity of the position, this phase may include, and is not limited to, work and residency eligibility verification, and personal interviews with the candidate, references, and prior employers.
All applicants must have resided in the United States for at least three (3) years.
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