Senior Cloud Engineer

Company

Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond

When you join the Federal Reserve—the nation's central bank—you’ll 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 we’re building a dynamic and diverse team for our future.

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. In addition to competitive compensation, we offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes tuition assistance, generous paid time off, top-notch health care benefits, child and family care leave, professional development opportunities, a 401(k) match, pension, and more. All brought together in a flexible work environment where you can truly find balance.

About the Opportunity

National IT is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to join the Cloud Engineering Services (CES) Team in support of Federal Reserve System (FRS) technology modernization efforts. NIT CES is a cloud accelerator supporting application infrastructure build & deployment automation for cloud migrations, green field builds, and on-going enhancements primarily within AWS GovCloud.  

The team is composed of cloud engineering experts who champion an automation first mindset to deliver cloud solutions focused on operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, reusability, cost optimization, and sustainability. 

Job Summary: 

The Cloud Engineer is responsible for developing and delivering automated solutions which enable secure and resilient application infrastructure provisioning (IaC), configuration management (CaC), and operations management (DevOps) across all SDLC environments. Completes analysis of business requirements and architecture supplied designs, as it relates to technical infrastructure design, and ensures traceability of the design to the business requirements. This position requires a seasoned professional with a full solid of industry best practices for application deployment, testing, issue remediation, and monitoring.  Requires high level of experience and proficiency in field with proven hands-on delivery. 

What You Will Do:

The Cloud Engineer Senior will be accountable for:  

• Serving as a hands-on technical Engineer to provide reusable automated solutions aligned with strategic technological directives 
• Working knowledge of architecture leveraging cloud-based technologies
• Close collaboration with cloud architects and application development teams to design, develop, build, test, and deliver business application infrastructure in cloud hosting environments  
• Oversees problem avoidance actions and assist with environmental software/operating system issue remediation
• Implement changes to business information and technical systems utilizing enterprise Change Management functions and processes. in the cloud hosting environments
• Analyzes and revises existing system logic and documentation as necessary with focus upon accuracy and toil reduction/avoidance 
• Evaluates, recommends, and selects new software/services as the become available within GitLab and/or AWS Gov Cloud
• Performs change and problem management using System IT standard tools and practices
• Ensures conformance and compliance with existing system standards defined via the establishment of application NFRs, SLAs, SLOs, and SLIs. Measures application performance via automation to ensure proper operation and availability upon demand as well as throughout application business hours
• Leads highly technical/complex projects utilizing matrixed and non-matrixed resources 
• Follows and ensures adherence to technical standards for programming and design techniques (code re-use, repository management, code reviews, etc...) 
• Mentors System technical and non-technical staff on developed solution(s), utilized tools, via customer-oriented knowledge transfer sessions as well as runbook documentation and solution demos 
• Monitors compliance with internal audit requirements and Information Security Manual guidelines 
• Performs other related duties as assigned 

Qualifications:

• 4+ years hands-on IT solution delivery engineering experience with cloud services including planning, development, migration and integration of applications and services from on premises infrastructure to cloud based platforms
• 1+ years of interpretive programing experience such as Python (preferred) or Go