Cloud AWS Support Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Federal Reserve System; New York (NY); On-site; USD 160,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

The Cloud AWS Support Reliability Engineer role at Federal Reserve Bank of New York focuses on building and maintaining scalable AWS infrastructure, writing Terraform-based provisioning, and developing CI/CD pipelines in GitLab. You will contribute to highly secure, resilient platforms and participate in on-call rotations to ensure uptime.

Candidates should have hands-on AWS expertise, Terraform, GitLab, and strong scripting skills in Java/Python/Scala.

Qualifications

• Terraform IaC to provision AWS cloud infrastructure
• Build, maintain, and troubleshoot automated CI/CD pipelines using GitLab
• Extensive AWS infrastructure knowledge (Lambda, S3, EC2, RDS, VPC, ALB/ELB, Route53)
• Knowledge of AWS IAM concepts, encryption, key management, certificates, vulnerability management
• Desirable: Glue, ECS, CloudBeaver, AWS Multi-AZ/Region
• Languages: Java, Python, Scala
• Containerized middleware: NGINX, JBoss, Tomcat
• DevSecOps, Agile-Scrum, JIRA practices
• Strong collaboration and independent work ability
• DevOps and SRE fundamentals; runbooks and docs
• Monitoring with Grafana and CloudWatch; incident remediation

Responsibilities

• Set up and maintain AWS infrastructure
• Implement observability and monitoring to deliver business value
• Containerize code and COTS tools
• Write Terraform IaC to install apps and AWS services
• Troubleshoot incidents to ensure resiliency and uptime
• Create CI/CD pipelines in GitLab for AWS deployment
• Operate in on-call rotation for critical product support
• Address security vulnerabilities on core platforms

Skills

Terraform IaC

CI/CD pipelines

AWS cloud infrastructure

Java, Python, Scala

Incident management

DevSecOps / SRE

Monitoring & observability

Security vulnerability management

On-call rotations

Tools

Terraform

GitLab

Grafana

CloudWatch

NGINX

JBoss/Tomcat

Okta

KMS / encryption

Direct Connect

Job description

Company

Federal Reserve Bank of New York

When you work at the New York Fed, you have the opportunity to make an impact in our communities and across the nation. Our mission-driven, curious, and dedicated colleagues apply their diverse perspectives and unique talents to support the strength of the U.S. economy and stability of the global financial system. At the Bank, we work full-time onsite with our teams. We believe being physically together allows us to draw on our collective strengths, while recognizing that the ability to work flexibly from time to time remains important to achieving our mission.

Our Unique Work:

The Enterprise Support Operations team within the Bank’s Technology Groupis responsible forproviding and supporting infrastructure technology capabilities to enable cloud hosting for business applications. The team works closely with our service providers and customers to provide highly resilient, secure, enterprise-class cloud platforms and infrastructure to meet business requirements.

HowYou’llMake an Impact as aCloud AWS Support Reliability Engineer (SRE):

• Setting up andmaintainingAWS infrastructure
• Implementing observability and monitoring to ensure delivery of business value
• Containerizing code and COTS tools
• Write Terraform IAC code to install custom applications, AWS services, and COTS tools in AWS
• Troubleshoot application issues to resolve incidents and ensure resiliency
• Create CI/CD pipelines in GitLab to install and rehydrate in AWS
• Take software as a black box and deploy and install in AWS
• Participatein on-call rotation for critical product support
• Resolve security vulnerabilities for principal platforms and products

The Unique Skill SetsWe’reLooking For:

• Demonstratedproficiencyin writing,maintaining, troubleshooting TerraformIaCto provision AWS cloud infrastructure services
• Demonstratedproficiencyin building,maintainingand troubleshooting automated CI/CD GitLab pipelines
• Demonstratedproficiencyin AWS cloud infrastructure including Lambda, S3, SNS, EKS (including Helm charts), data gateways, EC2, RDS Postgres DB, Oracle-RDS, VPC, transit gateways, Direct Connect, ALB/ELB, Grafana, CloudWatch, Route53, DNS, EFS
• Demonstratedknowledge of AWS IAM concepts and principles, including Okta, encryption, key management, certificates, vulnerability management, rehydration
• Desirable: knowledge of Glue, ECS,CloudBeaver, AWS Multi-AZ, AWS Multi-Region
• Working knowledge of programming languages: Java, Python, Scala
• Knowledge of containerized middleware (i.e.NGINX, JBoss, Tomcat)
• Knowledge ofDevSecOps, Agile-Scrum, JIRA methodologies
• Highly collaborative, self-starter with the ability to work independently and as part of a team to drive positive customer
• Solid foundations of DevOps and SRE principles and roles
• Technical writing skills including drafting run books, procedural manuals, and support documentation
• Hands-on experiences with configuring monitoring and alerting with tools such as Grafana and CloudWatch
• Knowledge of Incident management and remediation processes

Other Things to Know:

Salary Range: $160000 - $230000 / year

We believe in transparency at the New York Fed. This salary range reflects a variety of skills and experiences candidates may bring to the job. We pay individuals along this range based on their unique backgrounds. Whether you’re stretching into the job or are a more seasoned candidate, we aim to pay competitively for your contributions.

How We’ll Support You:

Our programs and benefits are designed to support you through all your life stages:

• Learning & Growing: Educational assistance, career development tools, and stretch opportunities
• Supporting Your Family: Parental leave, adoption assistance, back-up dependent and elder care, college planning resources, and more
• Managing Your Health: Comprehensive insurance plans, leave policies, onsite Health & Wellness Center, and onsite Fitness Center
• Optimizing Your Finances: Pension plan, 401(k) with generous match, financial planning resources, and subsidized public transportation program

Our Culture is deeply grounded in our Touchstone Behaviors

By working with us, you’ll have the opportunity to develop and demonstrate your ability to Communicate Authentically, Collaborate Inclusively, Drive Progress, Develop Others, and Take Ownership. These competencies shape our culture here at the Bank. They also provide a shared language for how we work together and achieve success and set clear expectations for leading with impact at every stage of your career. Learn more.

The New York Fed expects its employees to perform their duties with honesty, integrity, and impartiality, and without improper preferential treatment of any person. Learn more about our code of conduct and conflicts of interest rules.

We value accessibility for all candidates and are happy to provide an accommodation or assistance. [e-mail] and we’ll be glad to help. Please note, this is a dedicated e-mail box designed exclusively to assist applications with accommodation requests in relation to our recruiting process. All other inquires including the status of applications will not receive a response from this e-mail box.

This is not necessarily an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, performance standards or requirements, efforts, skills or working conditions associated with the job. While this is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current job, management reserves the right to revise the job or to require that other or different tasks be performed when circumstances change.

This position requires access to confidential supervisory information (CSI) and/or Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) information. Access to CSI and FOMC information is limited to U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents, individuals who meet the definition of “protected individual” under 8 U.S.C. § 1324b(a)(3), and certain other nonimmigrants. All non-U.S.

Full Time / Part Time

Full time

Regular / Temporary

Regular

Job Exempt (Yes / No)

Yes

Job Category

Information Technology Family Group

Work Shift

First (United States of America)

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