Senior DevOps Engineer

Freddie Mac; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 116,000 - 174,000; Full time

Job summary

Freddie Mac is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer for the Identity and Access Management (IAM) team within Enterprise BTO. You will drive automation, modernize the tech stack on AWS, and improve operational efficiency while enhancing user experiences.

Lead cross-functional projects, implement pipelines, and collaborate across teams to deliver scalable solutions that meet business goals and compliance standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience; advanced degree preferred.
• 5-7 years of relevant experience across Systems Engineering, DevOps, SRE, Infrastructure Operations, and hands-on Cloud Engineering.
• Experience supporting engineering teams through automated deployments, CI/CD pipelines, and observability.
• Hands-on experience with front-end technologies, including JavaScript, TypeScript, ReactJS, and Node.js.
• Strong experience supporting and operating on-premises and AWS infrastructure, including VPC, IAM, EC2, EKS, and related services.
• Proficiency with Python, PowerShell, Unix shell scripting, and Control-M to build, test, automate, and maintain cloud-native and legacy applications.
• Ability to design and deploy applications leveraging AWS services, including S3, Glue, Redshift, Lambda, and pipeline capabilities, based on evolving business and technology needs.
• Experience integrating and supporting CI/CD platforms, such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI, to enable continuous delivery and efficient development workflows.

Responsibilities

• Be an active member of multiple high-performing teams.
• Provide technical leadership and identify trends, patterns, and insights that can advise business decisions and strategies.
• Support engineering domain to craft, develop, and implement solutions that meet business needs.
• Ensure solutions align with business objectives and deliver measurable outcomes.
• Stay up to date with industry/enterprise standards, latest technologies and general principles, and techniques.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to development teams, including guidance and coaching for junior engineers.

Skills

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Cloud engineering

Mentorship

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

AWS

ReactJS

Node.js

Python

PowerShell

Unix shell scripting

Control-M

Job description

Position Overview

Are you looking for a career that enables you to bring your technology and operations expertise to influence and develop tools / solutions that will improve an organizations Identity Governance capability? Freddie Mac is seeking a creative hands‑on Senior DevOps Engineer to be a member of the Identity and Access Management (IAM) team within the Enterprise Business Technology Operation (BTO) organization. You will be working to build innovative solutions for improving our operational efficiency through automation, increasing user satisfaction with improved user experiences and helping to modernize our technology stack by leveraging AWS/Cloud native technologies.

Our Impact

The Enterprise BTO organization enables business operational excellence through the flexible use of technology. The department provides IT strategic services (software development, enhancements, and production support) to support the needs of the Enterprise groups - External Relations and Corporate Communications, Finance, Human Resources, Internal Audit, Legal, Operational Resilience, and Regulatory Affairs.

This role will be focused within IAM and often have intersections with the other above listed business lines. Delivery of IAM solutions to enable self‑service capabilities Delivery of integrations between IAM systems and other systems Collaboration with other technology teams to advance our technical capabilities, automate and optimize processes to meet business challenges.

Your Impact

Be an active member of multiple high‑performing teams. Provide technical leadership and identify trends, patterns, and insights that can advise business decisions and strategies. Support engineering domain to craft, develop, and implement solutions that meet business needs. Ensure solutions align with business objectives and deliver measurable outcomes. Stay up to date with industry/enterprise standards, latest technologies and general principles, and techniques.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience; advanced degree preferred.
• Minimum of 5-7 years of relevant experience across Systems Engineering, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Infrastructure Operations, and hands‑on Cloud Engineering.
• Demonstrated experience supporting engineering teams through automated deployments, CI/CD pipelines, and observability, enabling rapid and reliable delivery.
• Hands‑on experience with front‑end technologies, including JavaScript, TypeScript, ReactJS, and Node.js.
• Strong experience supporting and operating on‑premises and AWS infrastructure, including VPC, IAM, EC2, EKS, and related services.
• Proficiency with Python, PowerShell, Unix shell scripting, and Control-M to build, test, automate, and maintain cloud-native and legacy applications.
• Ability to design and deploy applications leveraging AWS services, including S3, Glue, Redshift, Lambda, and pipeline capabilities, based on evolving business and technology needs.
• Experience integrating and supporting CI/CD platforms, such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI, to enable continuous delivery and efficient development workflows.

Keys to Success in This Role

• Ability to work across multiple technologies, drive engineering solutions, and champion modernization initiatives.
• Provide day‑to‑day infrastructure and production support while advancing deployment automation, cloud migration, infrastructure modernization, and production stability.
• Communicate and collaborate effectively across teams within a matrixed organization.
• Demonstrate a strong learning mindset by adopting new technologies and identifying process improvements, automation opportunities, and reusable engineering solutions across development teams.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to development teams, including guidance and coaching for junior engineers.

Current Freddie Mac employees please apply through the internal career site.

We consider all applicants for all positions without regard to gender, race, color, religion, national origin, age, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, physical and mental disability, pregnancy, ethnicity, genetic information or any other protected categories under applicable federal, state or local laws. We will ensure that individuals are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

A safe and secure environment is critical to Freddie Mac’s business. This includes employee commitment to our acceptable use policy, applying a vigilance-first approach to work, supporting regulatory mandates, and using best practices to protect Freddie Mac from potential threats and risk. Employees exercise this responsibility by executing against policies and procedures and adhering to privacy & security obligations as required via training programs.

CA Applicants:

Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

Time-type: Full time | FLSA Status: Exempt

Freddie Mac offers a comprehensive total rewards package to include competitive compensation and market‑leading benefit programs. Information on these benefit programs is available on our Careers site.

This position has an annualized market‑based salary range of $116,000 - $174,000 and is eligible to participate in the annual incentive program. The final salary offered will generally fall within this range and is dependent on various factors including but not limited to the responsibilities of the position, experience, skill set, internal pay equity and other relevant qualifications of the applicant.