Company

Federal Reserve Bank of New YorkWorking at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York positions you at the center of the financial world with a unique perspective on national and international markets and economies. You will work in an environment with a diverse group of experienced professionals to foster and support the safety, soundness, and vitality of our economic and financial systems.  

 The Bank believes in work flexibility to balance the demands of work and life while also connecting and collaborating with our colleagues in person. Employees can expect to be in the office a couple of days per week as needed for meetings and team collaboration and should live within a commutable distance. 

What we do: 

Enterprise Support (ES) Consolidates accountability for all technology support services across the Bank. Oversees infrastructure and operations support processes to ensure stability and continuous improvement of the production environments.

Your role as IT Systems Engineering Specialist:

Provide infrastructure engineering and engineering support throughout the Bank. Designs, develops, troubleshoots, and debugs software programs for software enhancements and new products.

• Build cloud infrastructure engineering capabilities and support administration of various AWS environments. Developing implementation strategy, building procedures/guidelines and providing insight into best practices.

• Work closely with NIT Partners and other FRS entities to influence the implementation direction of Technology to meet New York priorities. The Cloud Infrastructure Engineer will help develop and implement highly available infrastructure model, security best practices, monitoring/observability capabilities in alignment with AWS 5 pillar strategy.

• Provide engineering expertise on agile teams/squads to implement and release applications, platforms, and services into multiple environments. Work collaboratively across cross-functional teams to solve complex problems; influences outcomes, practices, and/or procedures.

• Manage large projects or processes and works independently with limited management oversight.

• Assist with the evaluation of proposed technical solutions and their ability to integrate with the FRS computing environment, including applicable security and compliance frameworks. Works with appropriate service partners to implement deployment automation and software defined infrastructure

What we are looking for:

• Experience building and managing enterprise cloud infrastructure with hands-on experience in AWS and/or Azure environments including:

  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and CloudFormation tools.

  • Experience building modularized, re-usable code with Terraform modules

  • Experience working with various AWS services including but not limited to IAM, EC2, S3, ELB/ALB, RDS/Aurora, ElastiCache Redis, ECS/EKS, MSK.

  • Experience implementing monitoring & observability solutions, building custom dashboards with AWS native, 3rd party cloud monitoring solutions such as Dynatrace, Grafana

  • Experience with relational database implementations using AWS Aurora PostgreSQL, RDS SQL server.

  • Experience with nosql database implementations using AWS DocumentDB, Mongo Atlas databases.  

• Experience with container implementations using Elastic Container Services (ECS), Elastic Kubernetes Services (EKS), Docker.

• Experience with highly-resilient, low-latency messaging platforms using AWS MSK, Confluent Kafka.

• Experience in setting up DevOps infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, driving automated build management using GitLab preferred.

• Extensive expertise in providing guidance, building highly available/fault-tolerant enterprise class infrastructure with multiple-region and multi-AZ models.

• Development experience using Python and/or Java preferred.

• Experience translating architectural plans and business requirements into infrastructure implementations.

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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