DevOps Engineer

Federal Reserve Bank of Boston; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a skilled automation engineer to contribute to a transformative initiative in the payments landscape. This role offers a unique chance to develop automation strategies, implement scalable solutions, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance productivity. You will be responsible for creating automated deployment methods and supporting the CI/CD pipeline, ensuring high-quality software delivery. If you are passionate about learning new technologies and thrive in a dynamic environment, this opportunity is perfect for you. Join a mission-critical project that will shape the future of financial services.

Qualifications

• Experience with CI/CD flow, ensuring high-quality code deployment.
• Proficient in Java coding and automation scripting.

Responsibilities

• Develop tools to enhance productivity for automation teams.
• Collaborate with teams to improve integration and release processes.
• Support CI/CD pipeline for software promotion and validation.

Skills

Java

Automation Strategy

CI/CD

Cloud Expertise

Communication Skills

Documentation

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

GitLab

Docker

Chef

Puppet

AWS Cloud Formation

Ansible

VMWare

Xen

Job description

This role is 100% ONSITE at our Boston office

FedNow

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 to 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.

Position Contributions:

This position is responsible for the development of automation strategy and implementing 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. In addition, 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:

1. Develop and maintain tools to help the automation & engineering teams improve productivity.
2. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve the integration and release process.
3. Develop automated deployment methods for provisioning servers and applications that integrate with existing solutions.
4. Collaborate with Information Security, Information Technology, Engineering, and Release teams for design requirements.
5. Support the application CI/CD pipeline for promoting software into higher environments through validation and operational gating, and lead automation and best practices.
6. Develop automation scripts in Java or Python to support automation backlog.
7. Develop solutions that are aware of geo-diversity needs.
8. Develop readable code, that is tracked in code versioning and logically branched.

Expertise you will bring:

1. 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.
2. Java coding experience is required.
3. 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.
4. Experience with Linux operating systems and command-line interfaces.
5. Experience with software version control systems, including GitLab.
6. Experience in IT operations working with server virtualization (VMWare, Xen, etc.), IaaS and PaaS cloud (AWS).
7. A solid understanding of configuration management tools such as Chef, Docker, Puppet, AWS Cloud Formation, and Ansible.

Bachelor's Degree is required.

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

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Information Technology and Engineering

Industries

Financial Services, Banking, and Software Development