Senior Cloud Platform Engineer at Federal Reserve Bank (FRB) in Richmond, Virginia

Job Description:

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.

Job Description/Summary: 

The Senior Cloud Platform Engineer reports to a Senior Manager of Cloud Engineering Services and performs a critical role delivering the core capabilities and features of a strategic cloud platform within the FRFS’s Cloud Platform Team. You will help deliver platform enablers including the development and operationalization of reusable cloud platform components to support Financial Services users and partners. The Platform Cloud Engineer role will also encompass developing and deploying self-service tools that enable Application Delivery Teams within the Federal Reserve Financial Services to build applications on the cloud platform. If located in Richmond, this will be a hybrid on-site role.

Principle Duties and Responsibilities:

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  Platform Lifecycle
  
  
  • Design, engineer, implement, and configure cloud platform services to support overall enterprise cloud-based solutions and reenforcing best practices.
  
  
  • Develop cloud-based solutions for common platform needs (e.g. logging, monitoring, alerting, backup, encryption, tooling, etc.) across all layers of the platform and supporting services.
  
  
  • Work with business and technology partners to define scope of the data management platform integrations.
  
  
  • Partner with Information Security representatives to implement security configurations and controls.
  
  
  • Support and refine the utilization strategy for the platform and enhance its overall architecture, security, performance, and financial aspects. 
  
  
  • Contribute to platform, product, and architectural roadmaps.
  
  
  • Design Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment pipelines to enable code releases and continuous monitoring to resolve issues
  
  
  
  


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  Platform Administration
  
  
  • Perform development of common platform components and advanced configuration activities in the cloud platform.
  
  
  • Create integrations between the cloud platform and other FRS enterprise services and 3rd party tools.
  
  
  • Manage the core security model configurations
  
  
  • Develop comprehensive DevOps solutions to provide full visibility to the different platform components
  
  
  • Automate design patterns as Infrastructure-as -Code (IaC) and implement and test the automation
  
  
  • Build, test and deploy Docker images
  
  
  
  


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  Operational Excellence
  
  
  • Provide support for deployed products and services by being a trusted advisor to product delivery teams helping identify cloud problems and guiding issue resolution.
  
  
  • Develop and maintain automation for deployments to reduce manual processes and improve efficiencies across cloud environments. 
  
  
  • Lead solution design discussions, develops work effort estimates for implementation and presents solutions.
  
  
  • Participate in code reviews by receiving and providing feedback on code produced
  
  
  
  

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work-related experience


• 5+ years of Cloud Engineering experience (AWS Preferred)


• 5+ years' experience building and delivering highly available platform solutions leveraging Terraform


• 5+ years’ experience using and configuring Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery tools (e.g GitLab, Jenkins, Concourse)


• Experience integrating platform with 3rd party solutions (e.g. from cloud to on-prem and vice-versa, etc.)


• Experience with scripting & programming languages (e.g. Python, Ruby, Bash, PowerShell, Ansible, JavaScript, JSON, YAML, etc.) is a plus.


• Experience building infrastructure solutions applying containers/ container orchestration, including tools such as Kubernetes, Docker, ECS, Lambda, and serverless deployments.


• Working knowledge of configuration management tools and techniques e.g including Ansible, Chef, Puppet, SaltStack.


• Currently holds a certification that demonstrates technical knowledge with Amazon Web Services (AWS) (e.g. AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified SysOps Administrator or comparable)

Discover the Reason Why So Many People Love It Here!

When you join the Richmond Fed, not only will you find a challenging and purposeful career, you’ll also have access to a wide range of benefits and perks that support your health and wealth, including:

• Great medical benefits


• Pension and 401(k) with employer match


• Paid time off


• Tuition reimbursement


• Employee resource networks


• Paid volunteer leave


• Flexible work options


• Onsite amenities that make working here fun!

Other Requirements and Considerations:

• Candidates should review the Bank’s Employee Code of Conduct to ensure compliance with conflict of interest rules and personal investment restrictions.


• If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please notify rich.recruitment@rich.frb.org.


• Employees who work at and/or visit another Federal Reserve entity or outside business as part of their job duties are required to comply with any onsite safety and health protocols of those organizations (including, but not limited to, requirements to vaccinate or test, mask, social distance, etc.).


• Sponsorship is not available for this role. The selected candidate will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information. Eligibility for this specific position requires U.S. Citizenship.


• The national hiring range for the Senior Cloud Platform Engineer is $124,200-$170,720 annually. For candidates in certain markets (Boston, MA; Chicago, IL; Los Angeles, CA; New York City Metro Area, Philadelphia, PA; San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA), the listed hiring and salary ranges may be adjusted based on your geographic location.  

• Salary offered will be based on the job responsibilities and the individual’s knowledge, skills, and experience as defined in the job qualifications.


• Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. Interested candidates are strongly encouraged to apply by April 2, 2024.

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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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