DevOps Engineer

Federal Reserve Bank
Richmond, VA
12 Apr 2024

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Company Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond

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 Opportunity:

Our National IT Developer Platforms Group is looking for an enthusiastic DevOps Engineer to to join their CI/CD Platform Team - the team responsible for enterprise development tooling and supporting technologies we will use to modernize and transition FRS applications to the cloud.

As a DevOps Engineer, you will use highly secure coding in a cloud environment and DevSecOps best practices to build, deploy, automate, and evolve tool technologies needed to support the continuous integration and delivery pipelines.

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 to manage the CI/CD tool applications, pipelines and infrastructure
  • Manage the SDLC and release process for the platform from development through production environments, and assist in developing automated testing to validate the platform
  • Drive DevSecOps culture and capability adoption within the product team and across our user base
  • Work in an Agile product delivery model to iteratively improve platform offerings and adapt to changing needs
  • Remain continually aware of business, infrastructure, and technical issues to help develop 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.
  • If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please notify rich.recruitment@rich.frb.org .
  • 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 three or more years of Permanent Resident (Green Card) status.
  • For candidates in certain markets (Boston, MA; Chicago, IL; Los Angeles, CA; New York City Metro Area, Philadelphia, PA; San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA) the listed hiring and salary ranges may be adjusted based on 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.

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Job Category Information Technology

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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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