Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Federal Reserve Bank of New York; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,900; Full time

Job summary

Federal Reserve Bank of New York in Boston is seeking a qualified individual to operate the FedNow Program, focusing on enhancing the payments landscape nationally. The position requires expertise in AWS environments, strong communication, and a background in infrastructure or software engineering.

Successful candidates will be responsible for producing CI/CD automation and ensuring reliability in distributed systems. A salary range of $140,000 - $210,900 is offered for this critical role.

Qualifications

• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Extensive knowledge of AWS services and environments.
• Experience with automation tooling and infrastructure management.

Responsibilities

• Operate the production environment for the FedNow Program.
• Design and develop CI/CD and IaC Pipeline automation.
• Implement resiliency, DR, and BCP strategies.

Skills

AWS environments & services

HashiCorp Terraform

Python

Java

Go

Linux environment

Docker

Observability tools

Job description

Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Federal Reserve Financial Services (FRFS) delivers a suite of payments services to financial institutions via FedLine® Solutions, FedNowSM, Fedwire®, National Settlement Service (NSS), FedCash®, FedACH® (Automated Clearing House), and Check Services. We are currently leading a strategic effort to transform FRFS to a national, enterprise‑focused organization.

The Federal Reserve has developed a new interbank 24x7x365 real‑time gross settlement (RTGS) service with integrated clearing functionality, called the FedNow Service. This service enables 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 this mission‑critical Federal Reserve initiative that is transforming the payments landscape in the United States. The position will be primarily on‑site with residency commutable to one of our offices required. Candidates may come from infrastructure/DevOps backgrounds or software engineering backgrounds (e.g., Java, Python, Go) with strong interest in operating and improving reliability of distributed production systems.

Responsibilities

• Operate the production environment for the FedNow Program.
• Architect, implement, and leverage solution monitoring and tooling for capacity planning, utilization reporting, and scaling.
• Use open source and proprietary software to support Engineering, DevOps, and DevSecOps tools, services, and solutions.
• Design and develop CI/CD and IaC Pipeline automation.
• Implement resiliency, DR, and BCP (including testing).
• Support the design, management and execution of operations to meet FedNow program delivery needs.
• Own ITIL processes and drive continuous improvement initiatives.
• Apply software and system engineering practices to operate and improve large‑scale distributed systems.
• Work closely with Engineers and Architects to maintain seamless automation across the platform.
• Proactively identify suspected gaps in system architecture and design experiments to expose them.

Qualifications / Key Skills

• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Extensive knowledge and understanding of AWS environments & services such as EC2, EBS, EKS, RDS, Aurora, S3, Route53, ELB, IAM, etc.
• Experience with HashiCorp Terraform, Consul, Vault, and Ansible.
• Experience developing automation or operational tooling using scripting or programming languages such as Python, Java, Go, or similar languages.
• Experience working with cloud infrastructure platforms or distributed system environments.
• Experience working in Linux environment and shell scripting.
• Experience supporting infrastructure for large multi‑services applications.
• Experience working with continuous deployment in micro‑services architectures.
• Experience working with Docker, containers, ECR, and EKS.
• Observability knowledge - CloudWatch, OpenSearch, Dynatrace, Grafana, Prometheus.
• Familiarity with fault injection tooling (e.g., AWS Fault Injection Simulator, Gremlin, ChaosToolkit, Chaos Monkey).
• Automation mindset to enable consistency and dependability in common actions.

Salary

The salary range for this position is $140,000 - $210,900.

EEO Statement

The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all persons without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, genetic information, disability, or military service.

Security Screening

All employees assigned to this position will be subject to FBI fingerprint/ criminal background and Patriot Act/ OFAC watch list checks at least once every five years. For this job, any offer of employment is contingent upon successfully passing a two‑phase security screening. The first phase consists of satisfactory completion of a physical examination (including a drug screening), reference checks, and a security investigation consisting of credit and criminal history checks. The second phase, which might not be complete until after you begin working at the Reserve Bank, is an additional risk‑based security screening determined by the risk rating of the position.

Residency Requirement

All applicants must have resided in the United States for at least three (3) years.