The Senior Site Reliability Engineer joins the SRE / Production Operations team within the Technical Operations department to support the FedNow program. This role involves operating the production environment for a real-time gross settlement service, where you will architect and implement solution monitoring, tooling, and CI/CD and IaC pipeline automation. You will design experiments to identify architectural gaps, manage resiliency, and ensure high availability for large-scale distributed systems. Key technical requirements include proficiency in AWS services like EKS, RDS, and S3, alongside Hashicorp Terraform, Consul, Vault, and Ansible. You must possess experience with Python, Java, or Go for automation, as well as Docker, Linux shell scripting, and observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and Dynatrace to maintain seamless platform automation.
What does a Site Reliability Engineer earn?
Median $180200 from 121 postings across 36 companies.
Operate the production environment for the FedNow program.
Architect and implement monitoring tools for capacity planning and utilization reporting.
Design and develop CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) pipeline automation.
Manage resiliency, disaster recovery, and business continuity planning including testing.
Identify architectural gaps and design experiments to expose system weaknesses.
Maintain seamless automation across the platform for large-scale distributed systems.
Implement and drive continuous improvement initiatives and ITIL processes.
What we're looking for
Candidates may come from infrastructure/DevOps backgrounds or software engineering backgrounds with a strong interest in distributed production systems.
Extensive knowledge and understanding of working in AWS environments and services including EC2, EBS, EKS, RDS, Aurora, S3, Route 53, ELB, and IAM.
Experience developing automation or operational tooling using scripting or programming languages such as Python, Java, Go, or similar languages.
Experience working with cloud infrastructure platforms or distributed system environments.
Experience working in Linux environments and shell scripting.
Experience supporting infrastructure for large multi-services applications and continuous deployment in micro-services architectures.
Experience working with Docker, Containers, ECR, and EKS.
All applicants must have resided in the United States for at least three (3) years.