Sr Cloud Engineer

Company

Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

The St Louis Fed is one of 12 Reserve Banks serving all or parts of Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Arkansas with branches in Little Rock, Louisville and Memphis. The St. Louis Fed’s most critical functions include promoting stable prices and economic growth, fostering a sound financial system, providing payment services to financial institutions, supporting the U.S. Treasury's financial operations, and advancing economic education, community development and fair access to credit. The Bank strives to maintain an engaging and exciting work environment that is both inviting and collegial.

The Application Delivery Services department of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis is seeking an expert AWS Cloud Engineer with additional skills in Oracle and Java development. The Federal Reserve plays a major role in operating the nation’s payment system. This position will be responsible, as a contributor, in the analysis, design, development, and implementation of enterprise AWS cloud solutions in support of the US Treasury. This individual will be responsible for working with the development team and architects to implement application and infrastructure enhancements.

Responsibilities

• Understand current infrastructure and stack to employ best cloud solutions. Design cost-effective migration strategies, taking advantage of cloud services.
• Work with infrastructure and engineering teams to migrate portfolio applications to cloud services.
• Conduct analysis, testing, updating, and debugging, identifying bottlenecks and bugs in the system and develop solutions.
• Translate complex application stories, use cases, and business concept designs into functional, dynamic applications.
• Develop reusable and scalable code using industry standard software development practices, techniques, tools, and frameworks.
• Work with cross functional teams, integrate solutions, and handle data conversions and migrations.
• Be a technology leader and foster a learning and innovation culture within the Information Technology Division and across the Federal Reserve System

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university with specialization in an information technology field (e.g., Computer/Management Information Systems (MIS/CIS), Computer Science (CS), Electrical/Computer Engineering (EE/CE), or an equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
• Typically requires at least 10+ years of relevant and progressive information technology experience directly related to architecture, design, and development of cloud and software solutions, ranging in complexity from department-class to enterprise-class.
• Familiarity with Industry cloud implementation and software development methodologies, standards and architecture frameworks is required.
• Demonstrated proficiency with some of the following technologies on a Cloud platform: cloud native services, Infrastructure as Code, Python, Java, GitLab, and PostgreSQL is required.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation) is required.
• Excellent organizational, project management and problem-solving skills is required.    
• Experience using modern CI/CD pipelines using DevOps tooling (e.g. Git, Bitbucket, Bamboo, GitLab, Maven, Nexus, Fortify, Sonar, etc.) is required.
• Demonstrated ability to adapt and learn new technologies is required.
• Excellent initiative, innovative thinking skills, and the ability to analyze details and adopt a big-picture view is required.
• Experience with AWS cloud services (esp. EC2, ECS and/or EKS, S3, SQS, Lambda, IAM, CloudTrail, CloudFormation) is preferred.
• Demonstrated proficiency with Agile software development principles is preferred.
• Experience with Java Enterprise Applications (e.g. JEE, Spring, etc.) is preferred.
• Experience with Automated Testing, UML, Design Patterns, Object Oriented Design, Behavior Driven Development (BDD) and Test Driven Development (TDD) is preferred.
• Experience designing and deploying microservice solutions using RESTful APIs is preferred.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills. Ability to explain complex technical information to technical and non-technical contacts including executive audiences is preferred.
• Candidates with less experience can be considered for a lower level positio

Total Rewards

Bring your passion and expertise, and we'll provide the opportunities that will challenge you and propel your growth—along with a wide range of benefits and perks that support your health, wealth, and life.

Salary: $120-170k

In addition to competitive compensation, we