Senior OpenShift Architect

CompanyFederal Reserve Bank of Richmond

When you join the Federal Reserve—the nation's central bank—you’ll play a key role, collaborating with leading tech professionals to strengthen and protect our economic, financial and payments systems. We invest in contemporary and emerging technology each year to support the Federal Reserve and our economy, and we’re building a dynamic and diverse team for our future.
Bring your passion and expertise, and we’ll provide the opportunities that will challenge you and propel your growth—along with a wide range of benefits and perks that support your health, wealth, and life. In addition to competitive compensation, we offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes tuition assistance, generous paid time off, top-notch health care benefits, child and family care leave, professional development opportunities, a 401(k) match, pension, and more. All brought together in a flexible work environment where you can truly find balance.

About the Opportunity

The Cloud Solutions and Services team has an immediate opening for a OpenShift Architect, reporting to Assistant Vice President

We are looking for an accomplished OpenShift Architect to join our OpenShift Platform team. As an OpenShift Architect, you will help design and implement container solutions to enhance our container platform efficiency and scalability. You will collaborate across teams to ensure the successful deployment and management of containerized applications, applying best practices and industry standards. If you have a background in architecture and experience with OpenShift, this is the perfect opportunity for you to make a significant impact in the banking industry.

What You Will Do:

• Design OpenShift Container platforms for our hybrid cloud environment

• Provide technical direction for OpenShift Platform team partnering with the Container Product Owner.

• Collaborate with partners to define containerization strategies and create high-quality container solutions

• Implement container platforms, including orchestration, monitoring, backup, and security systems

• Partner with business areas to develop migration strategies to OpenShift platform

• Develop containerization frameworks and standards

• Ensure the integration and automation of containerized applications, pipelines, and releases

• Lead containerization projects, including planning, execution, monitoring, and reporting

• Provide troubleshooting and technical support for container-related issues

• Stay updated with the latest containerization technologies, trends, and best practices

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field

• 7+ years' experience architecting or engineering containers solutions using OpenShift, EKS or other Kubernetes-based solution are a plus

• In-depth Knowledge of containerization technologies, such as Docker, Kubernetes, and OpenShift

• Proficiency in designing and implementing highly available and scalable container architectures

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation tools, such as Jenkins, ArgoCD and Ansible

• Experience with network configurations and security principles in a containerized environment

• Familiarity with cloud platforms, such as AWS and Azure

• Familiarity with hybrid cloud solutions using hyperconverged solutions running VMware

Discover the Reason Why So Many People Love It Here!

When you join the Richmond Fed, not only will you find a challenging and purposeful career, you’ll also have access to a wide range of benefits and perks that support your health and wealth, including:

• Great medical benefits

• Pension and 401(k) with employer match

• Paid time off

• Tuition reimbursement

• Employee resource networks

• Paid volunteer leave

• Flexible work options

• Onsite amenities that make working here fun!

Other Requirements and Considerations:

• Candidates should review the Bank’s Employee Code of Conduct to ensure compliance with conflict of interest rules and personal investment restrictions.

• If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please notify [email protected].

• Employees who work at and/or visit another Federal Reserve entity or outside business as part of their job duties are required to comply with any onsite safety and health protocols of those organizations (including, but not limited to, requirements to vaccinate or test, mask, social distance, etc.).

• Sponsorship is not available for this role. The selected candidate will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information. Eligibility for this specific position requires U.S. Citizenship.

• The national hiring range for this role is $130,400- $179,300 annually.

• For candidates in certain markets (Boston, MA; Chicago, IL; Los Angeles, CA; New York City Metro Area, Philadelphia, PA; San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA), the listed hiring and salary ranges may be adjusted based on your geographic location. For candidates outside Richmond, VA, listed hiring and salary ranges may be adjusted based on your geographic location.

• Salary offered will be based on the job responsibilities and the individual’s knowledge, skills, and experience as defined in the job qualifications.

Full Time / Part TimeFull time

Regular / TemporaryRegular

Job Exempt (Yes / No)Yes

Job CategoryInfo Technology

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