Senior Site Reliability Engineer
At a glance
AI generatedTL;DR
As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer on the SRE/Production Operations team for FedNow at Federal Reserve Financial Services, you will be responsible for operating and enhancing large-scale distributed systems. Your day-to-day tasks include designing and implementing monitoring solutions, automating CI/CD pipelines, ensuring resiliency through disaster recovery planning, and driving continuous improvement initiatives. The team leverages AWS services such as EC2, EKS, RDS, S3, Route 53, and more, alongside tools like Terraform, Consul, Vault, and Ansible for infrastructure management. You will work closely with engineers to maintain seamless automation across the platform, identify system architecture gaps, and design experiments to improve reliability and scalability. Ideal candidates have extensive experience in AWS environments, Linux shell scripting, Docker, Kubernetes, and observability tools like CloudWatch and Prometheus. This role requires strong communication skills and a deep understanding of cloud infrastructure platforms and distributed systems.
Skills
What you'll do
- Design and implement monitoring and tooling for capacity planning and scaling.
- Develop CI/CD and IaC pipelines to automate infrastructure processes.
- Ensure resiliency, disaster recovery (DR), and business continuity plan (BCP) through testing.
- Collaborate with engineers and architects to maintain seamless automation across the platform.
- Identify gaps in system architecture and design experiments to improve reliability.
- Develop operational tooling using scripting or programming languages like Python, Java, Go.
What we're looking for
- Extensive knowledge of AWS environments and services including EC2, EKS, RDS, S3, Route 53, IAM.
- Experience developing automation or operational tooling using Python, Java, Go, or similar languages.
- Strong background in cloud infrastructure platforms and distributed system environments.
- Proficiency in Linux environment and shell scripting for large multi-services applications support.
- Hands-on experience with Docker, Containers, ECR, and EKS in continuous deployment microservices architectures.
- Expertise in observability tools such as CloudWatch, OpenSearch, Grafana, Prometheus.
Employer
About The Federal Reserve
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 currently has 29 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $167,000–$210,900 across 23 roles with salary data.
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