Cloud AWS Support Reliability Engineer (SRE)

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 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 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….