DevOps Engineer Senior

CompanyFederal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland is part of the nation’s central bank and we’ve provided many opportunities for professional growth during our history.
For twenty-five years in a row, we’ve been named “One of Northeast Ohio’s Best Places to Work” by North Coast 99. This prestigious award honors organizations with outstanding employment practices, including compensation, benefits, training, recruitment, retention, community services, and employee communications.
Our People Make the Difference! The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland is seeking innovative thinkers with vision to build the framework that will carry the Bank into the future.
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To be considered for this role, candidates must be a U.S. citizen.

Organizational Expectations:
You will be responsible for bridging the traditional divide between development and operations by providing automated build and deployment solutions, and system administration for SDLC tools. You will focus on continuous delivery and continuous operability. You will also serve as project manager, coach, and mentor as needed.

General Responsibilities:
• Designs, builds, and maintains Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery infrastructure, tools, and processes, which may include source code branching and packaging, and software build and deployment.
• Functions as a liaison to developers and other DevOps personnel regarding highly complex system and environmental requirements and problem resolutions.
• Supports configuration, documentation, and optimization of cloud infrastructure components.
• Plans, codes, and tests changes to a cloud infrastructure, which might include adding users, adding permissions, adding or changing workflow processes, or adding entire objects that function like a container to meet business needs.
• Facilitates ongoing technical support to internal customers, including support for onboarding and migration of software applications into various environments.
• Provides tool, process, and technical support during all phases of the application lifecycle.
• Analyzes highly complex customer business needs and recommends and implements automated solutions to increase process automation, user experience, and launch of new products and services.
• Research new technologies and tools to introduce to the organization to improve the efficiency and agility of software delivery.
• Solves highly complex problems; takes a new perspective using existing solutions.
• Performs other duties as assigned or requested.
• Adheres to the Bank's attendance policies through regular and prompt attendance.

Education and Experience:
• Bachelor's Degree with 5+ years of related work experience or Associate's Degree with 7+ years of professional work experience.

Knowledge and Skills:
• Deployment patterns (e.g. zero downtime, blue/green deployments, canary releases, etc.)
• Operating system environments and commands, Linux expertise preferred
• Code repositories
• Installing, configuring, integrating and maintaining a large-scale, highly available, multi-tenant suite of development tools
• Cloud technologies and practices, AWS preferred
• Infrastructure as code, experience with terraform and or CDK
• Traditional and cloud infrastructure components and techniques, including virtualization, elasticity, networking, and load balancing
• Provisioning hardware, OS, and infrastructure components, Docker experience.
• System tools and administration and methods, including access//password management, build frameworks and tools, containerization technology, artifacts management and tooling, configuration management tools, and automated deployment tools
• Web application programming with an object-oriented middle-tier language
• Secure programing techniques and basic understanding of cryptography and certificates
• At least 2 different scripting languages
• CI/CD Orchestration software, particularly Gitlab
• Software Library management tools
• Agile and DevOps practices
• Technical diagramming and process modeling
• Regulations, procedures, and practices of a specific discipline
• Ability to perform independent research
• Microsoft Office (Access, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Word, etc.)
• Analytical and logical analysis skills
• Ability to build and maintain strong professional relationships
• Working independently or as part of a team
• Strong verbal and written communication skills

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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