Senior Cloud Engineer (AWS/Kubernetes/Terraform)

Company Federal Reserve Bank of New YorkWhen 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 Group is responsible for providing 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.

How You’ll Make an Impact as a Cloud AWS Support Reliability Engineer (SRE):

• Setting up and maintaining AWS 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
• Participate in on-call rotation for critical product support
• Resolve security vulnerabilities for principal platforms and products

The Unique Skill Sets We’re Looking For:

• Demonstrated proficiency managing Kubernetes cluster infrastructure (AWS EKS) in production environments, including proficiency in Kubernetes command line utilities like kubectl, eksctl, or similar
• Demonstrated proficiency in writing, maintaining, troubleshooting Terraform IaC to provision AWS cloud infrastructure services
• Demonstrated proficiency in building, maintaining and troubleshooting automated CI/CD GitLab pipelines
• Demonstrated proficiency in 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
• Demonstrated knowledge of AWS IAM concepts and principles, including Okta, encryption, key management, certificates, vulnerability management, rehydration
• Desirable: Knowledge of Helm charts or other Kubernetes deployment methods and tools (GitOps, Flux 2.0, ArgoCD)
• Desirable: Knowledge of Kubernetes add-ons and plugins (CSI drivers, CNI plugins, ingress controllers)
• 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 of DevSecOps, 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.

Apply now if you’re ready to join us in strengthening the U.S. economy together. Want to consider our other opportunities? Click here to see all our open roles.

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. Please email us at View email address on aiapply.co 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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