FedNow Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Overview

Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Federal Reserve Financial Services (FRFS) delivers a suite of payments services to financial institutions via Fed Line® Solutions, FedNowSM, Fedwire®, National Settlement Service (NSS), Fed Cash®, FedACH® (Automated Clearing House), 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, seek to provide a more robust and unified customer experience across our financial service offerings, and create new career growth opportunities for FRFS staff.

The Federal Reserve has developed a new interbank 24x7x365 real-time gross settlement (RTGS) service with integrated clearing functionality, called the Fed Now Service. This service enables financial institutions to provide their customers with the ability to send and receive payments any time, any day, and have full access to those funds within seconds. This position is a unique opportunity to be part of this mission-critical Federal Reserve initiative that is transforming the payments landscape in the United States.

This position will be primarily on-site with residency commutable to one of our offices required.

• As a Lead Engineer of the SRE / Production Operations team for Fed Now, you will operate the production environment for the program.
• 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, Dev Ops, and Dev Sec Ops  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 (Tech Ops) 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 Fed Now Program, as well as the transition to production support and operations.
• This team interfaces with internal stakeholders, customers for planning, delivery, and service management.
• It owns ongoing ITIL processes, and the implementation and driving of continuous improvement initiatives.
• You will work closely with Engineers and Architects of the Fed Now 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.

• 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
• Automation experience preferably using Git Lab
• Experience with scripting languages preferably Python for automated processes
• 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 - Cloud Watch, Open Search, Dynatrace, Grafana, Prometheus
• Familiarity with Fault Injection tooling (i.e. AWS Fault Injection Simulator, Gremlin, Chaos Toolkit, Chaos Monkey)
• Automation mindset to enable consistency and dependability in common actions

The salary range for this position is $153,300 - $253,000. The position and job description posted is for a Lead 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. Candidates may also be considered at the Senior Site Reliability Engineer level. Salary range at the Senior level is $140,000 - $210,900.

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