DevOps Engineer

03 Dec 2024

Vacancy expired!

Company Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond

EngineerRequisition #3687Location: All FRS Locations

The Richmond Fed is the proud home of the Federal Reserve's National IT organization-a nationwide team delivering technology solutions and support across the Federal Reserve System. Many National IT employees are located in Richmond, while others are based across the U.S. at other Federal locations.

When you join our team, you'll become part of a culture that welcomes differences, cares about our communities, and empowers each other to lead from where we are to make things better. Bring your passion and we'll provide challenging and purposeful careers in a variety of fields, opportunities to grow and a wide range of benefits and perks that support your health and wealth. It's all part of what makes #MyRichmondFed a great place to work!

About the Opportnunity

Our Developer Platforms Group is looking for an enthusiastic DevOps engineer to be part a CI/CD platform team responsible for the enterprise-scale, development tooling and supporting technologies that will be utilized to modernize and transition Federal Reserve applications to the cloud using secure coding and DevSecOps practices. This position will support building, deploying, automating, and continuously evolving the various tool technologies required to support continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines in a highly secure, cloud environment.

What You Will Do:
  • Develop and maintain CI/CD tool technologies to help application delivery teams improve their productivity and accelerate their software delivery
  • Support the development of infrastructure-as-code (IaC), configuration-as-code (CaC) and other automation used to manage the CI/CD tool applications, pipelines and required infrastructure
  • Manage the SDLC and release process for the platform from development through production environments, including assisting in developing automated testing to validate the platform
  • Drive DevSecOps culture and capability adoption both within the product team and across the teams that are consuming the products we deliver
  • Work in an Agile and product delivery model to iteratively improve the platform offerings and adapt to the changing needs of our users
  • Remain continually aware of business, infrastructure, and technical issues to aid in the development of innovative solutions

Qualifications:
  • 3+ years of experience delivery technology solutions in a DevOps architectural capacity
  • "Hands on" experience with significant depth around designing, implementing, integrating, and managing multi-tenant development tooling and pipeline technologies (e.g., SCM, CI/CD, lifecycle management tools)
  • 2+ years of software engineering / scripting experience (e.g., Python, PowerShell, Ruby, JSON)
  • Extensive knowledge and understanding of working in AWS (AWS GovCloud preferred)
  • Experience with source code management (SCM) and continuous integration (CI) tools, including GitLab
  • Expertise in test automation, testing frameworks and tooling solutions
  • Experience with Application Security Testing solutions (e.g., SAST, DAST)
  • Experience with infrastructure-as-code automation (Terraform preferred)
  • Experience working with containerized application and solutions such as Docker and Kubernetes
  • Experience with advanced automated deployment patterns (e.g., Blue-Green, canary)
  • Experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible or Chef
  • Knowledge of operating systems (e.g., Linux, Windows)
  • Experience with AWS native development tools (e.g., CodeBuild, CodePipeline) a plus
  • Experience with implementing and configuring monitoring and logging solutions
  • Knowledge of secure coding standards

Discover the Reason Why So Many People Love It Here!

When you join Federal Reserve's National IT organization, 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:
  • A requirement of this position is that the employee must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19; individuals who are unable to be vaccinated due to a medical condition or sincerely held religious belief may request an accommodation from the Bank.
  • Candidates should review the Bank's Employee Code of Conduct to ensure compliance with conflict of interest rules and personal investment restrictions.
  • 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 or 3+ years of Permanent Residence Status.
  • For candidates located outside of Richmond, VA, the salary range may be adjusted for 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/experience.
  • Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.

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.

Privacy Notice