Senior Site Reliability Engineer | G Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Remote (United States)

<h2><strong class=" font-semibold">Company</strong></h2> <p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Federal Reserve Bank of RichmondThe Richmond Fed is the proud home of the Federal Reserve’s National IT organization—a nationwide team delivering technology solutions and support across the Federal Reserve System. Many National IT employees are located in Richmond, while others are based across the U.S. at other Federal locations.</p> <p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">When you join our team, you’ll become part of a culture that welcomes differences, cares about our communities, and empowers each other to lead from where we are to make things better. Bring your passion and we’ll provide challenging and purposeful careers in a variety of fields, opportunities to grow and a wide range of benefits and perks that support your health and wealth. It’s all part of what makes #MyRichmondFed a great place to work!</p> <p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">About the Opportunity</strong></p> <p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">As a Senior Cloud Reliability Engineer in the SRE chapter, you will be accountable for implementing reliability practices using software as means for the cloud foundational product line in the Federal Reserve.</p> <p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">The SRE Chapter is part of the Cloud Solutions & Services department and has the overall responsibility for reliability of the numerous cloud foundational environments in the FRS.</p> <p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">What Will Be Expected of You</strong></p> <ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6"> <li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Works part of cloud foundational platform squads to demonstrate and champion site reliability culture and practices and exerts technical influence throughout your team</span></li> <li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Solves reliability of cloud platforms with software engineering principles</span></li> <li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Develops and maintains automations, scripts and code associated with automating manual work, improving reliability and stability of the cloud platform</span></li> <li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Develops, integrates and maintains synthetics (canaries) code to establish health of the platform</span></li> <li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Leads SLIs, SLOs, Error budgets efforts in collaboration with product team to instrument, visualize for proactively managing the stability of cloud platforms</span></li> <li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Implement observability (logs, metrics, traces) and monitoring for cloud foundational platforms</span></li> <li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Defines chaos experiments in collaboration with product owners and conducts experiments</span></li> <li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Develops and Mentors Junior engineers in the team</span></li> <li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Other duties assigned as necessary</span></li> </ul> <p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Qualifications</strong></p> <ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6"> <li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">5-7 years of experience in end-to-end enterprise software development life cycle including maintenance and support</span></li> <li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">3+ years of experience in Observability and SRE practices.</span></li> <li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, or equivalent background or equivalent experience.</span></li> <li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">The ideal candidate is someone who loves building and maintaining reliable and scalable systems, is passionate about continuous improvement.</span></li> <li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Self-motivated individual with the ability to prioritize and manage changing priorities.</span></li> <li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Strong analytic and problem-solving skills.</span></li> <li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Strong customer focus and communication skills.</span></li> <li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Independent critical thinking and decision-making abilities.</span></li> <li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Excellent written and oral communication abilities.</span></li> </ul> <p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Expertise you will bring:</strong></p> <ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6"> <li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Extensive knowledge and experience of working in AWS environments</span></li> <li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Software development experience with one of the languages: Python, GoLang</span></li> <li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Experience with observability and tools like Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, AWS CloudWatch, AWS Canary, AWS event bridge</span></li> <li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Expertise in automation and tooling.</span></li> <li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Working experience in Agile and Scaled Agile environments</span></li> <li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Experience supporting infrastructure for large multi-services applications.</span></li> <li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Knowledge of secure coding standards and banking environment is a plus.</span></li> </ul> <p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Discover the Reason Why So Many People Love It Here!</strong></p> <p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">When you join the Richmond Fed, not only will you find a challenging and purposeful career, you’ll also have access to a wide range of benefits and perks that support your health and wealth, including:</p> <ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6"> <li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Great medical benefits</span></li> <li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Pension and 401(k) with employer match</span></li> <li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Paid time off</span></li> <li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Tuition reimbursement</span></li> <li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Employee resource networks</span></li> <li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Paid volunteer leave</span></li> <li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Flexible work options</span></li> <li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Onsite amenities that make working here fun!</span></li> </ul> <p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Other Requirements and Considerations:</strong></p> <ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6"> <li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Candidates should review the <a href="https://www.richmondfed.org/-/media/richmondfedorg/about%5Fus/careers/pdf/code%5Fof%5Fconduct.pdf?WT.si%5Fn=Search&WT.si%5Fx=3" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Bank’s Employee Code of Conduct</a> to ensure compliance with conflict-of-interest rules and personal investment restrictions.</span></li> <li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please notify <a href="mailto:rich.recruitment@rich.frb.org" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer">rich.recruitment@rich.frb.org</a>.</span></li> <li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Employees who work at and/or visit another Federal Reserve entity or outside business as part of their job duties are required to comply with any onsite safety and health protocols of those organizations (including, but not limited to, requirements to vaccinate or test, mask, social distance, etc.).</span></li> <li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Sponsorship is not available for this role. The selected candidate will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information. Eligibility for this specific position requires U.S. Citizenship.</span></li> <li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">The hiring range for the Engineer – Senior position is $110,200 – $151,580 annually.</span></li> <li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">For candidates outside Richmond, VA, listed hiring and salary ranges may be adjusted based on your geographic location.</span></li> <li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Salary offered will be based on the job responsibilities and the individual’s knowledge, skills, and experience as defined in the job qualifications.</span></li> <li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. Interested candidates are strongly encouraged to apply by Sep 13th, 2024.</span></li> </ul> <h2></h2> <h2></h2> <h2><strong class=" font-semibold">Full Time / Part Time</strong></h2> <p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Full time</p> <h2></h2> <h2></h2> <h2><strong class=" font-semibold">Regular / Temporary</strong></h2> <p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Regular</p> <h2></h2> <h2></h2> <h2><strong class=" font-semibold">Job Exempt (Yes / No)</strong></h2> <p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Yes</p> <h2></h2> <h2></h2> <h2><strong class=" font-semibold">Job Category</strong></h2> <p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Information Technology</p> <h2></h2> <h2></h2> <h2><strong class=" font-semibold">Work Shift</strong></h2> <p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">First (United States of America)</p> <p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><em>The Federal Reserve Banks believe that diversity and inclusion among our employees is critical to our success as an organization, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. The Federal Reserve Banks are committed to equal employment opportunity for employees and job applicants in compliance with applicable law and to an environment where employees are valued for their differences.</em></p> <p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Always verify and apply to jobs on Federal Reserve System Careers ([https://rb.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/FRS>) or through verified Federal Reserve Bank social media channels.</p> <p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><a href="https://www.kansascityfed.org/documents/7797/Workday%5FPrivacy%5FNotice.pdf" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Privacy Notice</a></p>