Senior Site Reliability Engineer
The Federal Reserve System · Boston, MA ·
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Part time
- Category
- SRE
The Federal Reserve System · Boston, MA ·
You will architect, implement, and leverage solution monitoring and tooling to be used for capacity planning, utilization reporting, and scaling.
The team uses open source and proprietary software to support Engineering, DevOps, and DevSecOps tools, services, and solutions.
CI/CD and IaC Pipeline automation design and development.
Resiliency, DR and BCP (including testing)
The SRE / Production Operations team is part of the Technical Operations (TechOps) department and has the overall responsibility for the design, management and execution of operations required to support the ongoing technical and delivery needs of the FedNow Program, as well as the transition to production support and operations.
It owns ongoing ITIL processes, and the implementation and driving of continuous improvement initiatives.
The role applies both software engineering and system engineering practices to operate and improve large-scale distributed systems. You will work closely with Engineers and Architects of the FedNow program in order to maintain seamless automation across the entire platform.
Proactively identify suspected gaps in system architecture and design experiments to expose them
The ideal candidate is someone who loves building and maintaining reliable and scalable systems, CI/CD tooling, and automating cloud-based highly available, high performing applications.
Key Skills
Strong communication and collaboration skills
Extensive knowledge and understanding of working in AWS environments & services
EC2, EBS, EKS, RDS, Aurora, S3, Route 53, ELB, IAM, etc.
Hashicorp Terraform, Consul, Vault, and Ansible
Experience developing automation or operational tooling using scripting or programming languages such as Python, Java, Go, or similar languages.
Experience working with cloud infrastructure platforms or distributed system environments
Experience working in Linux environment and shell scripting
Experience supporting infrastructure for large multi-services applications
Experience working with continuous deployment in micro-services architectures
Experience working with Docker, Containers, ECR and EKS.
Observability - CloudWatch, OpenSearch, Dynatrace, Grafana, Prometheus
Familiarity with Fault Injection tooling
Automation mindset to enable consistency and dependability in common actions
The salary range for this position is $140,000 - $210,900. The position and job description posted is for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer however, candidates will be placed in an appropriate level within the Site Reliability Engineer job family based on the extent of their experience.
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, which might not be complete until after you begin working at the Reserve Bank, 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.
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