Cloud Operations Specialist

04 Feb 2025

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Company Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City

When 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 dedicate more than $1 billion to technology each year to support the Federal Reserve and our economy, and we're building a dynamic and diverse team for our future. Bring your passion and expertise, and we'll provide the opportunities that will challenge you and propel your growth - along with a wide range of benefits and perks that support your health, wealth, and life.

Federal Reserve Financial Services (FRFS) delivers a suite of payments services to financial institutions via FedLine® Solutions, Fedwire®, National Settlement Service (NSS), FedCash®, FedACH®, and Check Services. We are currently leading a strategic effort to transform FRFS to a national, enterprise-focused organization. Over time, FRFS will offer an increasingly integrated set of Federal Reserve payment services, incorporating the FedNowSM Service upon its market entry in 2023. Through our evolved structure, we will meet the needs of the marketplace for new products and services more quickly, we will seek to provide a more robust and unified customer experience across our financial service offerings, and we will create new career growth opportunities for FRFS staff. We are seeking leaders to set the vision, strategy, values, and priorities that enable FRFS to achieve its mission. Our leaders must demonstrate a strategic, action-oriented mindset focused on intellectual curiosity, agility, accountability, and the ability to drive innovation through experimentation. To achieve our vision for a people-focused organization with a strong collaborative and innovative culture, we expect our leaders to champion an inclusive environment and demonstrate our values in how we work and interact with each other and our broader community.

Job Description PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
  • Lead the operational design, maintenance, and operation of cloud based platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, etc.)
  • Lead discussion and provide guidance to technical teams regarding operational, technical, and procedural best practices and functional experience
  • Lead automation efforts to minimize manual work and ensure transparency in all aspects of the secure cloud ecosystem
  • Lead efforts with stakeholders to obtain and translate requirements into technical implementations
  • Lead efforts to integrate existing legacy systems with proposed systems by identifying gaps between the current and future state, and leading the development and implementation of solutions
  • Oversee and develop continuous delivery and continuous integration frameworks and tools
  • Setup framework, processes, and operations for infrastructure as code and automation
  • Lead technical and end-user resources to execute detailed tests and analyze testing results.
  • Document and communicate issues, solutions, and timelines to appropriate stakeholders
  • Assist with implementation of customer side monitoring tools and may lead operation outage events
  • Provide timely/responsive technical support and leadership both within and across departments and applications including rotational on call support

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent background or experience
  • 5+ years working with cloud based platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, etc.) in an enterprise environment
  • 7+ years software engineering experience in a team based environment
  • Advanced experience integrating legacy platforms and applications with cloud based systems
  • Advanced experience with infrastructure as code tools (CloudFormation, Azure Resource Manager, Terraform, etc.)
  • Advanced experience with system configuration tools (Chef, Puppet, Ansible, etc.)
  • Advanced experience with implementing architectural frameworks (Service Oriented Architecture, Domain-Driven Design, etc.)
  • Advanced experience developing solutions in an iterative (Agile) approach Advanced experience with integrating SaaS providers and working in a multivendor integrated environment Advanced experience with source code management tools (Git, SVN, etc.)
  • Advanced experience with CI/build tools Advanced experience with various programming languages (Java, JavaScript, Python, etc.)
  • Advanced experience with Web Services, API, REST, RPC
  • Advanced knowledge of cloud based platforms AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, etc.
  • Strong understanding of advanced networking concepts
  • Advanced experience with deploying, managing, operating and monitoring of applications in scalable, highly available and fault tolerant data centers (both on premise and hosted)
  • Advanced experience learning, sharing, and implementing best practices with the ability to define operational processes, implement DevOps, deployment checklists, etc.

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
  • Advanced ability to solve problems by considering available information, prioritizing and making timely decisions; correlate data using standard business and technology tools and approaches, spot trends and apply sound security and risk management principles
  • Advanced ability to assess necessary activities and prioritize for completion of assignments using excellent time management, prioritization skills and work ethic
  • Strong verbal and written communications skills required.
  • Must be able to create and deliver presentations to technical and/or business audience.
  • Advanced ability in use of typical office-related technical tools such as Microsoft Visio, PowerPoint and Office
  • Advanced ability in use of Atlassian suite of products such as Confluence and Jira.

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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  • ID: #49003850
  • State: Missouri Kansas city 64101 Kansas city USA
  • City: Kansas city
  • Salary: USD TBD TBD
  • Job type: Permanent
  • Showed: 2023-02-04
  • Deadline: 2023-04-04
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