Company

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

We are the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco—public servants with a mission to advance the nation’s monetary, financial, and payment systems to build a stronger economy for all Americans. We are a community-engaged bank, and are committed to understanding and serving the vibrant, expansive communities of the Twelfth District. That means we seek and appreciate new perspectives. We respect people for what they do and for who they are. We build opportunities to learn and grow. When you join the SF Fed, you become part of a diverse team united in its purpose to promote an economy that works for everyone.

While the SF Fed is a Reserve Bank, we’re not what you might expect. We’re unreserved here. That means we seek new and diverse perspectives. We spark conversations and encourage debate. We build opportunity. We pursue careers that are true to ourselves. We are looking for people who want to help our country reach its full economic potential. When you join the SF Fed, you join a team of people working together to promote an inclusive economy that works for everyone.

We empower our people to balance their life and work responsibilities. That’s why we offer a flexible hybrid work model that allows you to collaborate with office colleagues on some days, and work from home on others.

Essential Responsibilities

As a Sr. Site Reliability Engineer, you will be part of the Data & Analytics Services (DAS) Team and will get an opportunity to broadly apply your engineering skills across various technology solutions, as well as build your skills in other areas by being exposed to various aspects of product delivery from inception, through design, build, and deployment. You will be working multi-functionally with Product Managers, Architects, Engineers, and Customer teams in a rapidly evolving environment. You will be developing Infrastructure as Code to launch server instances, install and configure software, amongst other things. You will provide technical leadership in the planning, design, and implementation of cloud-based infrastructure systems with both traditional and non-traditional infrastructures.

• Responsible for improving and protecting the availability, latency, performance, efficiency, change management, monitoring, emergency response, and capacity planning of cloud-based software and systems.

• Responsible for implementing, managing, and scaling distributed systems in a public, private, or hybrid cloud environment.

• Help implement the automation strategy for cloud services in coordination with architects and developers for toil reduction, reduce human errors, drive scalability and to improve reliability of the data platform.

• Identify and respond effectively to service failures to preserve the service's conformance to its Service-Level Agreement and regularly update the application playbook to reduce the time necessary to mitigate an incident.

• Work with development teams to establish Service-Level Objectives and key Service-Level Indicators.

• Design, development, engineer, and deploy Infrastructure-as-Code solutions related to platform scalability, isolation, latency, throughput, and efficiency.

• Establish postmortem procedures and lead postmortem exercises.

• Conduct Production Readiness Reviews to ensure services meets accepted standards of operational readiness before going live.

• Set guiding principles and assist in the creation of Infrastructure-as-Code and automated solutions in coordination with developers.

• Facilitate compliance, rehydrating infrastructure on schedule, keeping up with the upgraded versions of the services, empowering developers with self-service ability.

• Incident response, on call activities, standing up ad-hoc environments, helping with POC's to facilitate changes to architecture with high confidence.

• Manage system activities to an error budget.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Computer Engineering, Systems Analysis or a related field or equivalent work experience.

• 5+ years of relevant technical work experience in the field of software development using cloud service provider platforms

• 3 or more years of experience in using Terraform to manage AWS Programmable Infrastructures

• Must have architected and implemented the Cloud Infrastructure Automation scripts to create and maintain various target environments like Dev, Stage, QA, Integration and Production in AWS environments

• Must have experience managing infrastructure including security roles and permissions, Cloud networking assets like VPC, Subnets, Routing Tables, Access Controls lists, storage assets like S3 buckets, creating lambda functions & layers, provisioning other AWS services like Redshift, DynamoDB etc.

• Experience with advanced features like S3 backends and State file locks in Terraform

• Experienced in implementing Data and Advanced Analytics solutions, or related experience in the Cloud preferably in AWS

• Experience in developing an end to end AWS native platform for building Data lakes ( S3, Glue (Crawlers, ETL, Catalog), IAM, CodePipeline, CodeCommit, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, AWS Config, Guard Duty, Secrets Manager, KMS, EC2, Data Visualization Tool like Tableau run on an EC2 or AWS Quicksight, Athena

• Hands on programming and scripting skills (Java, C++, C#, Python, Bash)

• Working knowledge of Amazon Web Services

• Experience in Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, and Continuous Deployment software tools to support, enhance and grow CI and CD capabilities

• Understanding of security design for enterprise software systems. This includes but is not limited to:

Source code control systems (Subversion, Git variants) Build systems (Jenkins, GitLab, CircleCI) Static analysis tools (SonarQube, Fortify) Containerization tools (Docker, Podman) Orchestration and environment management tools (Puppet, Kubernetes, Ansible Terraform)

• Knowledge of high-availability, load-balancing and failover configurations across application, infrastructure, and platform

• Experience with and/or working knowledge the Financial Industry, Government Agencies, Federal Reserve Bank Lines of Business (LoBs) Applications

• Practical experience and knowledge of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Mircoservices and API Management

• Background in data security, governance and cybersecurity solutions.

• Proven ability to write clear and concise communications: technical documents, design documents, specifications.

• Thorough understanding of APIs, gateways, orchestrators, databases, networking, monitoring, configuration management and security best practices for a production environment

• Must be a U.S. Citizen or a Green Card holder with the intent to become a U.S. Citizen

Base Salary Range: Min: $113,600 - Mid: $147,600 - Max: $181,600 (Location: San Francisco)

Final salary and offer will be determined by the applicant’s background, experience, skills, internal equity, and alignment with market data.

We offer a wonderful benefits package including Medical, Dental, Vision, Pre-tax Flexible Spending Account, Backup Childcare Program, Pre-Tax Day Care Flexible Spending Account, Paid Family Care Leave, Vacation Days, Sick Days, Paid Holidays, Pet Insurance, Matching 401(k), and Retirement/Pension.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. The SF Fed is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

#LI-Hybrid

Full Time / Part Time

Full time

Regular / Temporary

Regular

Job Exempt (Yes / No)

Yes

Job Category

Information Technology

Work Shift

First (United States of America)

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.

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OUR BANK has one of the most recognizable brands around the world. The Federal Reserve is the central bank of the United States—one of the world's most influential, trusted and prestigious financial organizations. The Federal Reserve is charged with the important mission of promoting a strong economy and a stable financial system and fulfills this responsibility by formulating national monetary policy, supervising and regulating banks and bank holding companies, and providing financial services for banks and the U.S. government.

OUR PEOPLE are diverse in background and ideas, which allows for ongoing creativity and innovation. Ultimately, they are the ones who push our high-performance, exchange-driven culture forward.

Why Our People Choose Us:

Our reputation precedes us

There will always be room for personal growth

Our people are first

You’ll find the right balance

Your responsibilities will be meaningful

We hope that you will be our future colleague.