FedNow DevOps Engineer

Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Boston, MA
29 Nov 2024

Vacancy expired!

Company Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

The Federal Reserve is developing a new interbank 24x7x365 real-time gross settlement (RTGS) service with integrated clearing functionality, called the FedNow service. This service will help enable financial institutions 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 a new mission-critical Federal Reserve initiative that will be transformative to the payments landscape in the United States.

A requirement of this position is that the employee must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or qualify for an accommodation from the Bank's vaccination policy; individuals who are unable to be vaccinated due to a medical condition or sincerely held religious belief may request an accommodation from the Bank

Position Contributions-

Do you look to automate everything you can?

This position is responsible for the development of automation strategy and implement scalable pipeline-as-a-code and infra-as-a-code solutions to test the FedNow application to support automation/performance strategies across API/Web/message queues/transactional processing technology stack. This includes making a significant contribution in building automation branching strategy, policies, CT pipeline in CI/CD environment, provision continuous testing infra for parallel and smart path execution in cloud.Inaddition,you will bring strong cloud expertise, excellent communication skills, and a passion for documentation. Last but not least, you love learning new technologies-we're always evolving!

What will be expected of you-

Develop and maintain tools to help the automation & engineering teams improve productivity

Drive DevOps culture in agile delivery model & develop/improve CI/CD build pipeline supporting multiple agile delivery teams

Collaborate with cross functional teams to improve the integration and release process

Develop automated deployment methods for provisioning servers and applications that integrate with existing solutions

Collaborate with Information Security, Information Technology, Engineering and Release teams for design requirements

Support the application CI/CD pipeline for promoting software into higher environments through validation and operational gating, and lead automation and best practices.

Develop automation scripts in Java or Python to support automation backlog

Develop solutions that are aware of geo-diversity needs

Develop readable code, that is tracked in code versioning and logically branched

Expertise you will bring-

Experience designing and implementing an effective and efficient CI/CD flow that gets code

from dev to prod with high quality and minimal manual effort is required.

Java coding experience is required.

Experience with provisioning, installation, configuration, operation, and maintenance of

software, pipeline-as-a-code, infrastructure-as-code and continuous delivery environment using automated deployment and testing frameworks

Experience with Linux operating systems and command-line interfaces

Experience with software version control systems, including GitLab

Support the application CI/CD pipeline for promoting software into higher environments through validation and operational gating, and lead DevOps automation and best practices.

Experience in IT operations working with server virtualization (VMWare, Xen, etc.), IaaS and PaaS cloud (AWS)

A solid understanding of configuration management tools such as Chef, Docker, Puppet, AWS Cloud Formation, and Ansible.

Bachelors Degree is required

SAFE or Agile certification, Cloud or DevOps certification is a plus

The Federal Reserve System is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace and to provide equal employment opportunities to all persons without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, genetic information, disability, or military service.

All employees assigned to this position will be subject to FBI fingerprint/ criminal background and Patriot Act/ Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) watch list checks at least once every five years.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work required of this position. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities or skills associated with this position or the personnel so classified. While this job description is intended to be an accurate reflection of this position, management reserves the right to revise this or any job description at its discretion at any time.

For this job, any offer of employment is contingent upon successfully passing a two-phase security screening. The first phase consists of the satisfactory completion of a physical examination (including a drug screening), reference checks, and a security investigation consisting of credit and criminal history checks.

The second phase, which might not be complete until after you begin working at the Reserve Bank, is an additional risk-based security screening determined by the risk rating of the position. Depending upon the sensitivity of the position, this phase may include, and is not limited to, work and residency eligibility verification, and personal interviews with the candidate, references, and prior employers.

All applicants must have resided in the United States for at least three (3) years

Full Time / Part Time Full time

Regular / Temporary Regular

Job Exempt (Yes / No) Yes

Job Category

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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