Cloud Support Engineer or Engineer Senior

CompanyFederal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

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Cloud Support Engineer or Engineer Senior

Organizational Expectations:

The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland’s Treasury Services organization partners and supports the U.S. Treasury’s mission to expand the use of digital transactions across the Federal Government. The group provides strategic-level leadership, industry knowledge, and innovative thinking to assist with Treasury’s end goal of all-electronic payments and disbursements. As a part of this team, we embrace the challenge of consistently delivering exceptional work to benefit the Treasury, our organization, federal agencies, businesses, financial institutions and individuals.

In this role you will provide a broad range of technical support services for Treasury's large scale, cloud based financial transaction processing applications. In this role, you will support application design, testing, and deployment, continuity and contingency planning, application monitoring, and second tier technical support.

General Responsibilities:

• Provides technical assistance and operational guidelines for business operations and application development to ensure applications are running optimally in production, test, and development environments.

• Interacts with technicians to provide ongoing second and third level support of applications, including application monitoring, application tuning, troubleshooting, resolution of complex technical issues, and development of or support for standard maintenance procedures.

• Ensures that Treasury application services are highly available, reliable, and performant through monitoring and alerting.

• Work directly with users such as technicians with federal agencies to resolve third party interfacing system technical issues.

• Assist with data analysis, capacity plans, and execution of contingency plans.

• Understand and can trace transaction, batch, and file processing flows.

• Serves as the primary subject matter expert for Treasury application services towards preventing (pro-active) as well as troubleshooting and mitigating (re-active) service availability/performance issues and works directly with users to resolve third party interfacing system technical issues.

• Collaborates with the development staff and Site Reliability Engineers to understand the software products and any enhancements that are deployed, consults on issues related to the impact of development on the infrastructure, works with system engineers and developers to define server configuration settings, leads the migration of code through staging environments to production, and assist software quality assurance technicians during system acceptance testing.

• Managing and administering the AWS cloud environment, including provisioning, configuration, performance monitoring, policy governance and security

• Functions as the subject matter expert for coordinating and managing the deployment process and support of the full lifecycle of applications in AWS.

• Identifies key operational metrics, follows through by defining and designing methods to programmatically capture the data necessary to create them.

• Implements, and maintains dashboard, bots and other automation based on the current operational needs and current release changes. Evaluate and suggest improvement of the dashboards, bots, and other automation.

• Identifies repetitive, manual, and scalable tasks and automates them using scripting/programming languages or tools.

• Ensuring all infrastructure components meet proper performance and capacity standards.

• Influences new application and infrastructure designs and architectures, as well as create standards and guidelines for large-scale distributed systems with a focus on operability.

• Provides rotational 24x7 on-call support.

• Perform other duties as assigned or requested.

• Adhere to the Bank's attendance policies through regular and prompt attendance.

Education and Experience:

• Cloud Support Engineer: Bachelor's degree and a minimum 3 years of related work experience, or Associate degree and/or Technical/Bootcamp Certificate with 5+ years of experience

• Cloud Support Engineer Senior: Bachelor's degree and a minimum 5 years of related work experience, or Associate degree and/or Technical/Bootcamp Certificate with 7+ years of experience

Knowledge and Skills:

• Experience with AWS Cloud Platform technologies, infrastructure, and practices in production environment including CloudWatch, Cloud Trail, EKS, Lambda, Canaries, DynamoDB, RDS, PostgreSQL, S3, API Gateway, Elastic Load Balancer, OpenSearch, Grafana, AWS X-Ray, SQS, Fault Injection Service (AWS FIS)

• Experience with GitLab, CDK, Terraform and CI/CD pipeline.

• Experience with cloud technology including Grafana, OpenSearch, and Docker.

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, Configuration as Code, Alerts and Monitoring as Code.

• Ability to read, comprehend, and create complex technical documentation and comprehend business operational requirements and communicate complex technical analysis to technical and non-technical audiences.

• Strong communication skills; verbal & written - ability to articulate clear and concise instructions and resolutions.

• Traditional and Cloud infrastructure components and techniques in Production and Lower environments, including virtualization, elasticity, networking, and load balancing.

• Development, QA, and Production Deployment patterns and version control (e.g., zero downtime, blue/green deployments, canary releases, etc.).

• Experience in coding languages, such as Python, Typescript, NodeJS, .Net, Java

• Understanding of Agile and DevOps practices.

• Familiar with ITIL framework and Chaos Engineering.

• Understanding of Zero Trust security principles and concepts.

Physical Demands and General Working Conditions

This is not necessarily an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, performance standards or requirements, efforts, skills or working conditions associated with the job. While this is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current job, the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland reserves the right to revise this or any job description at any time. 

Bank’s Ethics Rules and Drug Testing:

As a condition of employment, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland employees must comply with the Bank’s ethics rules which generally prohibit employees, their spouses/domestic partners, and minor children from owning or controlling, directly or indirectly, any debt or equity interest in a depository institution or an affiliate of a depository institution. A "depository institution" means a bank, a trust company, or any institution that accepts deposits, including a bank chartered under the laws of a foreign country. In addition, employees (and their spouses/domestic partners, and minor children) may not own shares of mutual funds, unit investment trusts or ETFs that have a policy, as stated in the prospectus, of concentrating in the financial services industry and that have underlying investments in banks or other depository institutions. If you or your spouse/domestic partner or minor child own such securities and would not be willing or able to divest them if you accepted an offer of Bank employment, you should raise this issue with the recruiter for this posting.

In addition, as a condition of employment, candidates must undergo a background check and will be tested for all controlled substances prohibited by federal law, to include marijuana, prior to hire and for certain safety sensitive positions during employment.

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Reasonable Accommodation Statement - The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland is committed to ensuring 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. To request a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please send an email to [email protected].

Full Time / Part TimeFull time

Regular / TemporaryRegular

Job Exempt (Yes / No)Yes

Job CategoryInformation Technology

Work ShiftFirst (United States of America)

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