FRFS Cloud Specialist AWS SRE
FRFS Cloud Specialist AWS SRE
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08-04-2025
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Yearly Salary
$ 156100 - 184700
Vacancy
1 Vacancy
Posted on :
08-04-2025
Job Description
Company
Federal Reserve Bank of ChicagoAbout UsFederal Reserve Financial Services (FRFS) delivers a suite of payments services to financial institutions via FedLine Solutions Fedwire National Settlement Service (NSS) FedNowSM FedCash FedACH and Check Services. We are currently leading a strategic effort to transform FRFS to a national enterprisefocused organization. Through our evolved structure we will meet the needs of the marketplace for new products and services more quickly we will seek to provide a more robust and unified customer experience across our financial service offerings and we will create new career growth opportunities for FRFS staff.
We are seeking leaders to set the vision strategy values and priorities that enable FRFS to achieve its mission. Our leaders must demonstrate a strategic actionoriented mindset focused on intellectual curiosity agility accountability and the ability to drive innovation through experimentation. To achieve our vision for a peoplefocused organization with a strong collaborative and innovative culture we expect our leaders to champion an inclusive environment and demonstrate our values in how we work and interact with each other and our broader community.
Summary:
As a FRFS Cloud Specialist (AWS)/ SRE you will serve as a lead technical operations expert responsible for the design implementation and support of cloud based information technology solutions in current and future state. In this role you will be building maintaining and operationalizing infrastructure security services and system components in commercial or government cloud service providers to deliver highly available and scalable services.
The level of work required is considered advanced and staff must be able to work under minimal supervision. This job does not have direct reports.
This role will be titled internally differently than the title posted.
Your Responsibilities:
- Lead the operational design maintenance and operation of AWS cloud based platform.
- Lead discussion and provide guidance to technical teams regarding operational technical and procedural best practices and functional experience
- Lead automation efforts to minimize manual work and ensure transparency in all aspects of the secure cloud ecosystem
- Lead efforts with stakeholders to obtain and translate requirements into technical implementations
- Lead efforts to integrate existing legacy systems with proposed systems by identifying gaps between the current and future state and leading the development and implementation of solutions
- Oversee and develop continuous delivery and continuous integration frameworks and tools
- Setup framework processes and operations for infrastructure as code and automation
- Lead technical and enduser resources to execute detailed tests and analyze testing results.
- Document and communicate issues solutions and timelines to appropriate stakeholders
- Assist with implementation of customer side monitoring tools and may lead operation outage events
- Provide timely/responsive technical support and leadership both within and across departments and applications including rotational on call support
- Support production with expertise in monitoring and analytics tools (e.g. Grafana Dynatrace)
- Familiarity with virtualization platforms such as VMware vSphere or HyperV
- Hands on experience on debugging logs and supporting various applications on Linux servers.
- Basic understanding on load balancers DNS firewall rules and other networking concepts.
Your Background:
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Systems or equivalent background or experience
- 5 years working with cloud based platforms (AWS Azure Google Cloud etc. in an enterprise environment
- 7 years software engineering experience in a team based environment
- Advanced experience integrating legacy platforms and applications with cloud based systems
- Advanced experience with infrastructure as code tools (CloudFormation Azure Resource Manager Terraform etc.
- Advanced experience with system configuration tools (Chef Puppet Ansible etc.
- Advanced experience with implementing architectural frameworks (Service Oriented Architecture DomainDriven Design etc.
- Advanced experience developing solutions in an iterative (Agile) approach Advanced experience with integrating SaaS providers and working in a multivendor integrated environment Advanced experience with source code management tools (Git SVN etc.
- Advanced experience with CI/build tools Advanced experience with various programming languages (Java JavaScript Python etc.
- Advanced experience with Web Services API REST RPC
- Advanced knowledge of cloud based platforms AWS Azure Google Cloud etc.
- Strong understanding of advanced networking concepts
- Advanced experience with deploying managing operating and monitoring of applications in scalable highly available and fault tolerant data centers (both on premise and hosted)
- Advanced experience learning sharing and implementing best practices with the ability to define operational processes implement DevOps deployment checklists etc.
Your Knowledge and Skills:
- Advanced ability to solve problems by considering available information prioritizing and making timely decisions; correlate data using standard business and technology tools and approaches spot trends and apply sound security and risk management principles
- Advanced ability to assess necessary activities and prioritize for completion of assignments using excellent time management prioritization skills and work ethic
- Strong verbal and written communications skills required.
- Must be able to create and deliver presentations to technical and/or business audience.
- Advanced ability in use of typical officerelated technical tools such as Microsoft Visio PowerPoint and Office
- Advanced ability in use of Atlassian suite of products such as Confluence and Jira.
What we offer:
The expected starting salary range for this position is between $156100 and $184700 annually in addition to annual performancebased discretionary bonuses. Final salary and offer will be determined based on the applicants relevant experience skills internal equity and alignment with geographic and other market data.
- The Chicago Fed offers benefits to support overall health and financial security. Learn more about our benefits here: continuous learning environment with opportunities to gain new skills and grow your career.
Additional Requirements:
- This is a hybrid position requiring a minimum of two days per week in office.
- Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States without the need for visa sponsorship now or in the future.
- This position has additional screening requirements due to the information accessed while performing the job. These additional screenings would be initiated at the time of offer acceptance and can take approximately two months to be completed. The screening covers areas such as education/employment verification criminal history credit history and reaches out to your references and people that know you well.
- As a condition of employment Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago employees must comply with the Banks ethics rules which generally prohibit employees their spouses/domestic partners and minor children from owning securities such as stock of banks or savings associations or their affiliates such as bank holding companies and savings and loan holding companies. If you or your spouse/domestic partner or minor child own such securities and would not be willing or able to divest them if you accepted an offer of Bank employment you should raise this issue with the recruiter for this posting who can provide you contact information for our ethics official if necessary.
- This document indicates the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this position. It is not a comprehensive inventory of all duties responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. An employees responsibilities tasks and duties might differ from those outlined in the job description and other duties as assigned are a part of the job. The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago reserves the right to modify the elements of this job description as business needs require.
We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race color ancestry religion sex national origin sexual orientation age marital status disability gender gender identity or expression or veteran status.
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