Federal Reserve Bank of RichmondThe Richmond Fed is the proud home of the Federal Reserve’s National IT organization—a nationwide team delivering technology solutions and support across the Federal Reserve System. Many National IT employees are located in Richmond, while others are based across the U.S. at other Federal locations.
When you join our team, you’ll become part of a culture that welcomes differences, cares about our communities, and empowers each other to lead from where we are to make things better. Bring your passion and we’ll provide challenging and purposeful careers in a variety of fields, opportunities to grow and a wide range of benefits and perks that support your health and wealth. It’s all part of what makes #MyRichmondFed a great place to work!
About the Opportunity
As a Senior Cloud Reliability Engineer in the SRE chapter, you will be accountable for implementing reliability practices with software as means for the cloud foundational product line in the Federal Reserve.
The SRE Chapter is part of the Cloud Solutions & Services department and has the overall responsibility for reliability of the numerous cloud foundational environments in the FRS.
What Will Be Expected of You
Works part of cloud foundational platform squads to demonstrate and champion site reliability culture and practices and exerts technical influence throughout your team
Solves reliability of cloud platforms with software engineering principles
Develops and maintains automations, scripts and code associated with automating manual work, improving reliability and stability of the cloud platform
Develops, integrates and maintains synthetics (canaries) code to establish health of the platform
Leads SLIs, SLOs, Error budgets efforts in collaboration with product team to instrument, visualize for proactively managing the stability of cloud platforms
Implement observability (logs, metrics, traces) and monitoring for cloud foundational platforms
Defines chaos experiments in collaboration with product owners and conducts experiments
Develops reusable artifacts and software utilities to industrialize SRE practices across FRS
Provides consulting services across the system to implement SRE
Develops and Mentors Junior engineers in the team
Other duties assigned as necessary
Qualifications
5-7 years of extensive experience in end-to-end enterprise software development life cycle including maintenance and support
3+ years of experience in Observability and SRE practices.
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, or equivalent background or equivalent experience.
Extensive knowledge and experience of working in AWS environments
Strong Software development experience in Cloud with one of the languages: Python or GoLang
Experience with observability, open telemetry, and in one or more of the tools like Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, AWS CloudWatch, AWS Canary, AWS event bridge
Expertise in automating the TOIL
Working experience in Agile and Scaled Agile environments
Experience supporting infrastructure for large multi-services applications
Knowledge of secure coding standards and banking environment is a plus.
Discover the Reason Why So Many People Love It Here!
When you join the Richmond Fed, not only will you find a challenging and purposeful career, you’ll also have access to a wide range of benefits and perks that support your health and wealth, including:
Great medical benefits
Pension and 401(k) with employer match
Paid time off
Tuition reimbursement
Employee resource networks
Paid volunteer leave
Flexible work options
Onsite amenities that make working here fun!
Other Requirements and Considerations:
Candidates should review the Bank’s Employee Code of Conduct to ensure compliance with conflict-of-interest rules and personal investment restrictions.
Employees who work at and/or visit another Federal Reserve entity or outside business as part of their job duties are required to comply with any onsite safety and health protocols of those organizations (including, but not limited to, requirements to vaccinate or test, mask, social distance, etc.).
Sponsorship is not available for this role. The selected candidate will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information. Eligibility for this specific position requires U.S. Citizenship.
The hiring range for the Engineer – Senior position is $110,200 – $151,580 annually.
For candidates outside Richmond, VA, listed hiring and salary ranges may be adjusted based on your geographic location.
Salary offered will be based on the job responsibilities and the individual’s knowledge, skills, and experience as defined in the job qualifications.
Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. Interested candidates are strongly encouraged to apply by Nov 15th, 2024.
Full Time / Part Time
Full time
Regular / Temporary
Regular
Job Exempt (Yes / No)
Yes
Job Category
Info Technology
Work Shift
First (United States of America)
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