Job Information
Federal Reserve System Sr Site Reliability Engineer in San Francisco, California
Company
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
We are the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco—public servants with a mission to advance the nation’s monetary, financial, and payment systems to build a stronger economy for all Americans. We are a community-engaged bank, and are committed to understanding and serving the vibrant, expansive communities of the Twelfth District. That means we seek and appreciate new perspectives. We respect people for what they do and for who they are. We build opportunities to learn and grow. When you join the SF Fed, you become part of a diverse team united in its purpose to promote an economy that works for everyone.
As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will be part of the Data & Analytics Services (DAS) Team and work with application development and QA teams, DevOps teams as well as our National IT teams architecting, building, and managing the systems that support the Federal Reserve System application suite both on-prem and in the Cloud. In this role, you will have the opportunity to contribute to several high-quality data solutions and enhance your technical skills across many disciplines. We employ state of the art technologies that are part of the AWS, Big data ecosystem, which includes tools used for CI/CD, DevOps, data integration, data modeling, and data analytics. You will have an opportunity to apply your critical thinking and technical skills across many disciplines.
In this role, you will contribute to high quality technology solutions that address business needs by developing solutions for the platform or applications for the customer business lines. You should have strong communication skills as you will work closely with other groups, including development and testing efforts of your assigned application components to ensure the successful delivery of the project.
While the SF Fed is a Reserve Bank, we’re not what you might expect. We’re unreserved here. That means we seek new and diverse perspectives. We spark conversations and encourage debate. We build opportunity. We pursue careers that are true to ourselves. We are looking for people who want to help our country reach its full economic potential. When you join the SF Fed, you join a team of people working together to promote an inclusive economy that works for everyone.
We empower our people to balance their life and work responsibilities. That’s why we offer a flexible hybrid work model that allows you to collaborate with office colleagues on some days, and work from home on others.
Responsibilities:
Working with the development teams and DevOps teams to create and implement Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipeline.
Work with National IT to create and implement the tooling required for Continuous Delivery
Ensure our systems and tooling are future proof and can accommodate growth and continually changing requirements.
Participate in design and planning sessions to ensure changes to tooling or services are accounted for.
Design and implement process improvements.
Coach and mentor others on Platform Engineering and DevOps best practices
Leads the design of the logical model and implements solutions to support business needs.
Takes ownership of technical aspects of software development for assigned applications.
Works on multiple projects as a technical team member or lead driving user story analysis and elaboration, design and development of applications, testing, and builds automation tools.
Works with developers to make sure that all data solutions are consistent.
Leads and communicates to technical and business product managers, as well as third parties, on solution design.
Participate in an Agile development environment.
Collaborate with Developers, DevOps, Release Management and Operations
Maintain security in accordance with Bank information security policies.
Participate in an Agile development environment by attending daily standups and sprint planning activities.
Provide operational support for applications and utilities.
Assist in the deployment of new modules, upgrades, and fixes to the production environment.
Leads user training workshops.
Acts as a role model, thought leader, and change management for new software and technology throughout the company.
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Computer Engineering, Systems Analysis or a related field or equivalent work experience.
7+ years of industry experience in building and supporting enterprise level systems as a platform engineer or equivalent in a production environment.
3 or more years of relevant technical experience in AWS + Big Data (Cloudera) technologies
Design, develop, and maintain end to end data solutions using open source, modern data lake, and enterprise data warehouse technologies (Hadoop, Spark, AWS Cloud, etc.)
Demonstrated technical expertise across a variety of technology platforms (Big Data – Cloudera, AWS etc.,) and solutions.
Proven ability to write clear and concise communications: technical documents, design documents, specifications.
5+ years of hands-on experience implementing, supporting, and using the tools and services required for on-prem & cloud DevOps best practices. This includes but not limited to:
Application services (WebSphere, Tomcat, Spring Boot)
Source code control systems (Subversion, Git variants)
Build systems (Jenkins, GitLab, CircleCI)
Static analysis tools (SonarQube, Fortify)
Containerization tools (Docker, Podman)
Orchestration and environment management tools (Puppet, Kubernetes, Ansible,
Terraform)
Monitoring tools (Splunk, Dynatrace, Datadog)
Programming or scripting languages (Java, C++, C#, Python, Bash)
Automated testing tools (Selenium, TestComplete)
Hands-on experience with AWS services - building, deploying, and monitoring using AWS tools and services such as AWS CodePipeline, AWS CloudWatch, AWS CloudFormation, and AWS X-Ray
Thorough understanding of APIs, gateways, orchestrators, databases, networking, monitoring, configuration management and security best practices for a production environment
Experience programming and scripting on UNIX / Linux. (i.e., Python or Bash)
Experienced in implementing Data and Advanced Analytics solutions, and SaaS or related experience in the Cloud
Experience deploying code on Cloud based Infrastructure, with AWS (Amazon Web Services
Understanding of security design for enterprise software systems
Experience in developing an end-to-end AWS native platform for building Data lakes ( S3, Glue (Crawlers, ETL, Catalog), IAM, CodePipeline, CodeCommit, CloudFormation/Terraform, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, AWS Config, Guard Duty, Secrets Manager, KMS, EC2, Data Visualization Tool: Tableau run on an EC2 or AWS Quicksight), Athena
Working experience in Ansible/Terraform/Cloud Formation scripts and Infrastructure as Code scripting is required.
Good understanding of data security, governance, and cybersecurity solutions.
Must be a U.S. Citizen or a Green Card holder with the intent to become a U.S. Citizen
Base Salary Range: Min: $113,600 - Mid: $147,600 - Max: $181,600 (Location: San Francisco)
Final salary and offer will be determined by the applicant’s background, experience, skills, internal equity, and alignment with market data.
We offer a wonderful benefits package including Medical, Dental, Vision, Pre-tax Flexible Spending Account, Backup Childcare Program, Pre-Tax Day Care Flexible Spending Account, Paid Family Care Leave, Vacation Days, Sick Days, Paid Holidays, Pet Insurance, Matching 401(k), and Retirement/Pension.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. The SF Fed is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
#LI-Hybrid
Full Time / Part Time
Full time
Regular / Temporary
Regular
Job Exempt (Yes / No)
Yes
Job Category
Information Technology
Work Shift
First (United States of America)
The Federal Reserve Banks believe that diversity and inclusion among our employees is critical to our success as an organization, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. The Federal Reserve Banks are committed to equal employment opportunity for employees and job applicants in compliance with applicable law and to an environment where employees are valued for their differences.
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OUR BANK has one of the most recognizable brands around the world. The Federal Reserve is the central bank of the United States—one of the world's most influential, trusted and prestigious financial organizations. The Federal Reserve is charged with the important mission of promoting a strong economy and a stable financial system and fulfills this responsibility by formulating national monetary policy, supervising and regulating banks and bank holding companies, and providing financial services for banks and the U.S. government.
OUR PEOPLE are diverse in background and ideas, which allows for ongoing creativity and innovation. Ultimately, they are the ones who push our high-performance, exchange-driven culture forward.
Why Our People Choose Us:
Our reputation precedes us
There will always be room for personal growth
Our people are first
You’ll find the right balance
Your responsibilities will be meaningful
We hope that you will be our future colleague.