DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer

The DevOps Engineer supports the delivery of modern, secure, and scalable technology solutions by combining full-stack application development with DevOps, cloud infrastructure, and automated deployment expertise. The role designs and maintains applications using contemporary and AI-enabled technologies, while building and optimizing CI/CD pipelines and automation platforms. It includes developing and troubleshooting deployment and automation services that serve multiple business units and ensuring secure, reliable software release processes. As a subject-matter expert in application development and automation, the Engineer contributes to strategic direction, strengthens modernization and cloud initiatives, and leads key efforts within the IT Application and Automation team.

Primary Success Factors

• Builds and maintains modern, AI-enabled applications and supports custom software.
• Leads design, integration, and strategic planning for CI/CD pipelines and automation platforms, ensuring new capabilities and deployment processes are efficiently automated.
• Evaluates industry trends and contributes to technical design recommendations that advance Bank efficiency and modernization initiatives.
• Maintains CI/CD tools, platforms, and related technical documentation to ensure secure, reliable deployment and automation practices.
• Ensures compliance with applicable policies, procedures, and regulations to support safe and sound business operations.

DevOps Engineering Tasks

• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines for testing, building, and deploying software—using tools like GitHub Actions
• Manage cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS, Azure) with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation
• Containerize applications with Docker and orchestrate them via Kubernetes
• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting systems like Cloud Watch, Datadog
• Ensure system security and compliance with practices like vulnerability scanning, SAST, and DAST

Full-Stack Development Tasks

• Build responsive front-end interfaces using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript frameworks such as Angular
• Develop backend services and APIs in Java
• Able to work with both SQL (E.g., PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (E.g., MongoDB) databases
• Design and consume REST APIs and integrate authentication/authorization layer

Required Experience

• Bachelor's degree in information technology, computer science or related field
• Five years of technical IT experience with at least two years of experience in Full Stack developer and/or DevOps, CI/CD engineer, automation or similar job function
• DevOps & Infrastructure: AWS (EC2, ECR, CloudFormation, Lambda), Azure VM, Docker, Kubernetes/EKS Fargate, Terraform, Ansible, RunMyJobs
• CI/CD: GitHub Actions, Maven, NPM, JMeter, Selenium
• Monitoring: Datadog, AWS CloudWatch
• Security & Compliance: GitHub Advanced Security, Chekov, CodeQL, AWS Secrets Manager, SOX-oriented workflows, API secret-rotation processes
• Frontend: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Angular
• Backend: Java; Python for automation and backend services; REST API development
• Databases: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Snowflake, DynamoDB, AWS RDS
• Version Control: Git (GitHub Enterprise)
• Languages & Scripting: Bash, YAML, Python, Go

It is the policy of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Pittsburgh to ensure equal employment opportunity (EEO) for all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, disability status, genetic information, veteran's status, ancestry, sexual orientation or status as a parent as defined by applicable law. It is the Bank's policy to comply with applicable laws concerning the employment of persons with disabilities, including reasonable accommodation for applicants and employees with disabilities.