Associate Application Developer Network Automation

Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

When you join the Federal Reservethe nations central bankyoull play a key role collaborating with leading tech professionals to strengthen and protect our economic financial and payments systems. We invest in contemporary and emerging technology each year to support the Federal Reserve and our economy and were building a dynamic and diverse team for our future.

The Infrastructure Platforms & Operations portfolio supports the strategic direction and product delivery for System IT infrastructure and operations as well as the alignment of technology to business strategies. The team serves as the business partner for secure and reliable IT products services and operations.

We are seeking an Associate Application Developer to join our team in developing network automation applications for the Federal Reserve this role you will apply DevOps methodologies and CI/CD practices to build self-healing infrastructure applications that minimize manual operations across our enterprise network and security platforms.

• Design develop and implement network automation applications that enable self-healing infrastructure capabilities
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate deployment and operations of network and security platform applications
• Reduce manual operational overhead through intelligent application development across the Federal Reserve Systems infrastructure
• Develop and monitor infrastructure health metrics through custom applications to optimize network performance and stability
• Collaborate with cross-functional agile teams to deliver robust automation applications
• Stay current with emerging technologies and continuously expand technical expertise in network automation and infrastructure development

Programming & Application Development

• Proficiency in Python (required)
• Experience with additional programming languages applicable to automation application development

Network Automation & Infrastructure

• Understanding of network and security infrastructure components including switches routers and firewalls
• Experience with policy-based and software-defined networking automation applications
• Knowledge of network orchestration principles

DevOps & CI/CD

• Hands-on experience with mature CI/CD processes and tools
• Familiarity with automated testing frameworks and methodologies
• Understanding of deployment standards and release management procedures for infrastructure automation applications

Monitoring & Analytics

• Ability to develop and implement application-based metrics for infrastructure health monitoring
• Willingness to learn monitoring and alerting tools and concepts
• Focus on stability and performance optimization

Collaboration & Communication

• Experience working in agile development environments
• Strong ability to translate complex technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders
• Proven track record of effective collaboration across distributed development teams

Learning Mindset & Professional Growth

• Intellectually curious with a passion for exploring new technologies and methodologies
• Hungry to learn and continuously develop skills in network automation infrastructure and emerging DevOps practices
• Self-motivated to seek out learning opportunities and tackle new technical challenges
• Enthusiastic about staying ahead of industry trends and best practices

Education

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Technology Software Engineering or related field

This position involves working within the Federal Reserve System partnering with multiple development teams across the organization to deliver enterprise-scale network automation applications.

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 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.

Full time

Regular

No

Information Technology Family Group

First (United States of America)

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