Lead Site Reliability Engineer

The Federal Reserve

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Work type: On-site
Location: San Francisco, CASt. Louis, MOCleveland, OHChicago, ILNew York, NYBoston, MAMinneapolis, MNAtlanta, GADallas, TXCharlotte, NCRichmond, VAPhiladelphia, PAKansas City, MO
Employment: Full-time
Posted: 22 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live today
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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The Federal Reserve is the central bank of the United States—one of the world's most influential, trusted and prestigious financial organizations.

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TL;DR · Lead Site Reliability Engineer

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The Lead Site Reliability Engineer joins the engineering team to drive the reliability, scalability, and performance of critical systems powering the U.S. payment systems infrastructure. This role involves designing and maintaining highly available cloud systems, establishing SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs, and leading incident response. The engineer will architect cloud infrastructure using Terraform on AWS, manage services like Lambda, ECS, and RDS, and automate deployment pipelines via GitLab. Key responsibilities include building internal tools, conducting code reviews, and integrating SAST/DAST security practices into CI/CD workflows. The candidate must possess proficiency in Java, Python, and Node.js, alongside experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and observability tools like Grafana or Datadog. This position ensures the resilience of foundational financial services and high-availability payment processing.

Skills

AWS Terraform GitLab Kubernetes Docker Python Java Node.js CI/CD RDS DynamoDB Aurora Lambda ECS Fargate S3 VPC Route53 CloudFront API Gateway CloudWatch X-Ray Grafana Datadog New Relic Splunk SAST DAST IAM LLMs Agile Scrum

What you'll do

Design and maintain highly available, scalable, and resilient systems across cloud infrastructure.
Establish and monitor SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs to ensure optimal system performance.
Lead incident response, conduct root cause analysis, and implement preventive measures.
Architect and manage AWS cloud infrastructure using Terraform and Infrastructure as Code.
Automate deployment pipelines, monitoring, and operational workflows using GitLab.
Integrate security practices like SAST and DAST into CI/CD pipelines.
Develop monitoring solutions, alerting systems, and observability frameworks.
Mentor junior SRE team members and provide technical guidance on system design.

What we're looking for

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
7+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or related roles.
3+ years in a lead or senior technical position.
Must be a U.S. Citizen or a Green card holder with intent to become a U.S. Citizen.
Strong proficiency in Java, Python, and Node.js.
Expert-level knowledge of GitLab (CI/CD pipelines, runners, GitOps) and advanced Terraform skills.
Extensive experience with AWS services including Compute, Storage, Database, Networking, and Monitoring.
AWS certifications (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer) (preferred).

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