FedNow Principal Site Reliability Engineer
FedNow Principal Site Reliability Engineer
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Job Description
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 enterprisefocused 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 realtime 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 missioncritical Federal Reserve initiative that is transforming the payments landscape in the United States.
The position will be primarily onsite with residency commutable to one of our offices required.
Responsibilities
As a Principal 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 of operations to support the ongoing technical and delivery needs of the FedNow Program as well as the transition to production support and operations.
Thisteam interfaces with internal stakeholders customers for planning delivery and service management.
It owns ongoing ITIL processes and the implementation and driving of continuous improvement initiatives.
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 cloudbased highly available high performing applications.
Key Skills
Strong communication and collaborationskills
Extensiveknowledge and understanding of working in AWS environments & services
EC2 EBS EKS RDS Aurora S3 Route 53 ELB IAM etc.
HashicorpTerraform Consul Vault and Ansible
Automation experiencepreferably using GitLab
Experiencewith scripting languages preferably Python for automated processes
Experience working in Linux environment and shell scripting
Experience supporting infrastructure for large multiservices applications
Experience working with continuous deployment in microservices architectures
Experience working with Docker Containers ECR and EKS.
Observability CloudWatch OpenSearch Dynatrace GrafanaPrometheus
Familiarity with Fault Injection tooling
i.e. AWS Fault Injection Simulator GremlinChaosToolkit Chaos Monkey)
Automation mindset to enable consistency and dependability in common actions
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 twophase 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 riskbased 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.
Full Time / Part Time
Full timeRegular / Temporary
RegularJob Exempt (Yes / No)
YesJob Category
Info Technology Family GroupWork Shift
First (United States of America)The Federal Reserve Banks are committed to equal employment opportunity for employees and job applicants in compliance with applicable law and to an environment where employees are valued for their differences.
Always verify and apply to jobs on Federal Reserve System Careers or through verified Federal Reserve Bank social media channels.
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
