What are the responsibilities and job description for the DevOps Engineer position at Federal Reserve Bank of Boston?
This role is 100% ONSITE at our Boston office
FedNow
The Federal Reserve is developing a new interbank 24x7x365 real-time gross settlement (RTGS) service with integrated clearing functionality, called the FedNow service. This service will help enable financial institutions 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 a new mission-critical Federal Reserve initiative that will be transformative to the payments landscape in the United States.
Position Contributions-
Do you look to automate everything you can?
This position is responsible for the development of automation strategy and implement scalable pipeline-as-a-code and infra-as-a-code solutions to test the FedNow application to support automation/performance strategies across API/Web/message queues/transactional processing technology stack. This includes making a significant contribution in building automation branching strategy, policies, CT pipeline in CI/CD environment, provision continuous testing infra for parallel and smart path execution in cloud. In addition, you will bring strong cloud expertise, excellent communication skills, and a passion for documentation. Last but not least, you love learning new technologies—we’re always evolving!
What will be expected of you-
Develop and maintain tools to help the automation & engineering teams improve productivity
Drive DevOps culture in agile delivery model & develop/improve CI/CD build pipeline supporting multiple agile delivery teams
Collaborate with cross functional teams to improve the integration and release process
Develop automated deployment methods for provisioning servers and applications that integrate with existing solutions
Collaborate with Information Security, Information Technology, Engineering and Release teams for design requirements
Support the application CI/CD pipeline for promoting software into higher environments through validation and operational gating, and lead automation and best practices.
Develop automation scripts in Java or Python to support automation backlog
Develop solutions that are aware of geo-diversity needs
Develop readable code, that is tracked in code versioning and logically branched
Expertise you will bring-
Experience designing and implementing an effective and efficient CI/CD flow that gets code
from dev to prod with high quality and minimal manual effort is required.
Java coding experience is required.
Experience with provisioning, installation, configuration, operation, and maintenance of
software, pipeline-as-a-code, infrastructure-as-code and continuous delivery environment using automated deployment and testing frameworks
Experience with Linux operating systems and command-line interfaces
Experience with software version control systems, including GitLab
Support the application CI/CD pipeline for promoting software into higher environments through validation and operational gating, and lead DevOps automation and best practices.
Experience in IT operations working with server virtualization (VMWare, Xen, etc.), IaaS and PaaS cloud (AWS)
A solid understanding of configuration management tools such as Chef, Docker, Puppet, AWS Cloud Formation, and Ansible.
Bachelors Degree is required
SAFE or Agile certification, Cloud or DevOps certification is a plus
