FRFS Site Reliability Engineer – Cloud Operations

Company

Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

About Us
Federal Reserve Financial Services (FRFS) delivers a suite of payments services to financial institutions via FedLine® Solutions, Fedwire®, National Settlement Service (NSS), FedNowSM, FedCash®, FedACH®, and Check Services. We are currently leading a strategic effort to transform FRFS to a national, enterprise-focused organization. Through our evolved structure, we will meet the needs of the marketplace for new products and services more quickly, we will seek to provide a more robust and unified customer experience across our financial service offerings, and we will create new career growth opportunities for FRFS staff.

We are seeking leaders to set the vision, strategy, values, and priorities that enable FRFS to achieve its mission. Our leaders must demonstrate a strategic, action-oriented mindset focused on intellectual curiosity, agility, accountability, and the ability to drive innovation through experimentation. To achieve our vision for a people-focused organization with a strong collaborative and innovative culture, we expect our leaders to champion an inclusive environment and demonstrate our values in how we work and interact with each other and our broader community.

Summary:
As a Site Reliability Engineer – Cloud Operations you will serve as a lead technical operations expert responsible for the design, implementation, and support of cloud based information technology solutions in current and future state. In this role you will be building, maintaining, and operationalizing infrastructure, security services, and system components in commercial or government cloud service providers to deliver highly available and scalable services.

The level of work required is considered advanced and staff must be able to work under minimal supervision. This job does not have direct reports.

This role will be titled internally differently than the title posted.

Your Responsibilities: 

• Lead the operational design, maintenance, and operation of AWS cloud based platform.
• Lead discussion and provide guidance to technical teams regarding operational, technical, and procedural best practices and functional experience
• Lead automation efforts to minimize manual work and ensure transparency in all aspects of the secure cloud ecosystem
• Lead efforts with stakeholders to obtain and translate requirements into technical implementations
• Lead efforts to integrate existing legacy systems with proposed systems by identifying gaps between the current and future state, and leading the development and implementation of solutions
• Oversee and develop continuous delivery and continuous integration frameworks and tools
• Setup framework, processes, and operations for infrastructure as code and automation
• Lead technical and end-user resources to execute detailed tests and analyze testing results.
• Document and communicate issues, solutions, and timelines to appropriate stakeholders
• Assist with implementation of customer side monitoring tools and may lead operation outage events
• Provide timely/responsive technical support and leadership both within and across departments and applications including rotational on call support
• Support production with expertise in monitoring and analytics tools (e.g., Grafana, Dynatrace)

  

Your Background: 

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent background or experience
• 5+ years working with cloud based platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, etc.) in an enterprise environment
• 7+ years software engineering experience in a team based environment
• Advanced experience integrating legacy platforms and applications with cloud based systems
• Advanced experience with infrastructure as code tools (CloudFormation, Azure Resource Manager, Terraform, etc.)
• Advanced experience with system configuration tools (Chef, Puppet, Ansible, etc.)
• Advanced experience with implementing architectural frameworks (Service Oriented Architecture, Domain-Driven Design, etc.)
• Advanced experience developing solutions in an iterative (Agile) approach Advanced experience with integrating SaaS providers and working in a multivendor integrated environment Advanced experience with source code management tools (Git, SVN, etc.)
• Advanced experience with CI/build tools Advan