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Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas CityWhen 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.

Important Information

• Open to US Citizens, Green Card holders or Permanent Residents with at least 3 years of residency, and intent to become a US citizen.

• No F-1 or H-1B sponsorship is available. Candidates must have valid work authorization, without an end date.

• This is a hybrid role and requires working on-site, in Kansas City, Denver, Oklahoma City, or Omaha a minimum of 50% monthly.​

About the Role

As an embedded IT group, the Center for the Advancement of Data and Research in Economics (CADRE) supports data or computationally intensive research and analytics for staff in the Economic Research division of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City and across the Federal Reserve System. Our technology services include multiple high performance computing environments, research data warehousing and curating services, and endpoint support. We are committed to personal development, training, and research.

CADRE is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer to apply a broad range of knowledge in support of our many connected technologies. Core responsibilities include the administration of virtualization platforms, storage systems, and data backup solutions. You should also be knowledgeable in networking concepts and hardware, and comfortable working with Linux and Windows systems. For the right candidate, responsibilities may also include supporting High Performance Computing clusters and users.

Key Activities

• Configure, install, and support virtualization platforms, storage systems, and backup solutions.

• Respond to user requests via a ticketing tool.

• Monitor and manage system health and capacity.

• Collaborate with CADRE engineers and System IT resources to investigate and resolve issues.

• Vendor management.

• Collaborating on yearly budgeting processes as related to hardware refreshes, new system purchases, and support contracts.

• Manage physical assets within the Kansas City data center.

• Occasional after-hours and on-call support is required.

• Review and analyze business and technical requirements and implement technical solutions to meet those requirements.

• Perform other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications

• Typically requires at least 6-10+ years of relevant and progressive information technology experience directly related to design, installation, and support of information technology infrastructure. New team members will be hired into the software engineer job family according to skills and experience.

• Bachelor’s degree specializing in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics), or a closely related field, from an accredited college or university, or equivalent combination of directly related education and/or experience.

• Experience supporting and administering virtualization platforms (VMware) , Storage Area Networks (SANs), backend switches, and data backup tools.

• Passion for technology with a proven willingness to continuously embrace learning in order to meet the ever-changing technical landscape.

• Strong oral and written communication skills. Able to effectively communicate with technical and non-technical teammates and customers.

• Continuously improves processes and contributes to innovation.

• Adept at solving problems and able to analyze details while concurrently adopting a big picture view, with an inclination for simple, re-usable solutions.

• Strong interpersonal skills. Develops strong partnerships and relationships with team members, remaining positive to promote a collaborative and team environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Automation experience with Ansible, Salt, and Gitlab CI/CD runners.

• PosgtreSQL/Greenplum experience would be a plus.

• Experience with *nix background, comfortable with using Linux CLI tools and working with remote servers via SSH.

Additional Information

Location(s):

• Hybrid – Kansas City, Denver, Oklahoma City, Omaha (50% on-site monthly)

• Remote Eligible – No

Salary:

• $100,400 - $150,500 / Senior Level

• $114,000 - $170,800 / Advanced Level

• Final offers are determined by factors including the candidate’s qualifications, internal alignment considerations, district assignment, and geographic location.

Screening: This position has additional screening requirements due to the information accessed while performing the job. These additional screenings would be initiated at the time of offer acceptance and can take up to a couple of months to be completed. You can begin work before the screening is completed; however, continued employment is contingent on acceptable screening results. The areas screened may include education/employment verification, criminal history, credit history, and reference checks. In some cases, positions require access to confidential supervisory information, access to which is limited to "Protected Individuals" as defined by regulation of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 12 CFR 268.205. Protected Individuals include, but are not limited to, U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals, and lawful permanent resident aliens (also known as "green card holders") who are eligible for and seeking United States citizenship within the requisite timeframes.    

Sponsorship: The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position. Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States without an end date and without the need for visa sponsorship now or in the future.

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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)

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