DTAS Cloud DevOps Engineer

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Important Information

• United States citizenship is required for this position.

• The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization.

• This position requires working on-site in Kansas City with 5 days per month work from home flexibility.

About the Role

• The Treasury Data Transparency & Strategy (DTAS) team is seeking a Cloud DevOps Engineer to support the Fiscal Data Treasury Team. The successful candidate will be a team-oriented DevOps Engineer with experience and eagerness to work on infrastructure operations CI CD deployment data management and information security. They will maintain operational stability of a platform supporting multiple development teams app deployments and databases to reduce risk to site availability and security. Daily activities will include executing recurring operations and maintenance tasks such as data snapshotting and archiving security patching and infrastructure scaling and monitoring. The desired outcome is to perform DevOps activities to control automate and accelerate the Agile SDLC and DataOps to orchestrate the delivery of data among systems.

Key Activities

• Applies the principles of software engineering to the design implementation configuration and optimization of solutions in support of applications databases test automation tools and Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) products.

• Demonstrates technical skill in at least one programming general purpose language (Python Terraform etc.) and domain specific language (SQL proprietary vendor language etc.) as needed.

• Performs peer reviews using software engineering principles patterns and development guidelines.

• Partners with customers in the development of innovative solutions that achieve business goals.

• Reviews and analyzes business and technical requirements and implements technical solutions to meet those requirements.

• Provides data on-call support troubleshooting root cause analysis incident management and service request management for supported products and environments.

• Performs other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications

• Typically requires 3-6 years of relevant experience.

• Bachelors degree specializing in STEM (Science Technology Engineering Mathematics) or a closely related field from an accredited college or university or equivalent combination of directly related education and/or experience.

• Experienced to Senior understanding of subject. Has in-depth and/or breadth of knowledge in discipline.

• Performs work independently with limited supervision and direction. Serves as a resource for less experienced staff.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience creating and operating applications and infrastructure in AWS.

• Demonstrated ability to write application code and automation scripts in a thoughtful abstracted and organized way.

• Experience with Python Ansible Terraform and containerization.

• Knowledge and experience managing large data sources and the flow of data between stages for public and analytical consumption.

• Understanding of end-to-end modern agile software development.

• Experience with authoring configuring scheduling and scaling a suite of Jenkins pipelines.

• Sustaining operational security of systems and justifying sufficiency.

Additional Information

How We Work (HWW):

• On-site: 5 days per month work from home flexibility

• Location: Kansas City MO

• Remote Eligible: No

Salary:

• $89500 - $115800 / Experienced Level

• $110300 - $142800 / Senior Level

• Final offers are determined by factors including the candidates qualifications internal alignment considerations district assignment and geographic location.

Screening: United States citizenship is required for this position. This position has additional screening requirements due to the information accessed while preforming the job. These additional screenings would be initiated at the time of offer acceptance and can take up to a couple of months to be completed. You can begin work before the screening is completed; however continued employment is contingent on acceptable screening results. The areas screened may include education/employment verification criminal history credit history and reference checks.

Sponsorship: The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position. Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States without the need for visa sponsorship now or in the future.

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