Senior AWS Cloud Engineer

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 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 work environment where you can truly find balance.

About the Opportunity

Are you a passionate cloud engineer that's delivered systems in a fast-paced agile environment? We are looking for a senior-level engineer who is a seasoned professional with a full understanding of cloud industry best practices.

This is a hands-on position that will consult, advise, and develop conceptual, logical and software engineering designs, solutions, and applications to support the infrastructure requirements of varying levels of technical and business application projects in AWS cloud environments. This position will also analyze business requirements as it relates to technical infrastructure design and ensure the traceability of the design to the business requirements. You will evaluate testing requirements and prepares testing strategies, as well as preparing implementation and transition plans.

This is an in-office role and must report to one of our district reserve bank locations.

What You Will Do

• Lead and involve in consulting activities, advisory and documentation tasks in partnership with NIT, Cloud Foundation Teams and various district stakeholders to meet the business requirements and goals.
• Collaborate with cloud teams and research business stakeholders to translate requirements and advise on efficient, cost-effective AWS-based solutions using industry standard Software Development Lifecycle practices.
• Guide & implement the selection and deployment of AWS services, ensuring alignment with industry best practices and security compliance requirements
• Provide ongoing support, monitoring, and optimization of the internal cloud environment, including various compute and data environments
• Serve as a subject matter expert on enterprise engineering best practices specific to cloud computing
• Contribute to both the strategic planning and to the eventual solution build of a High Performance Computing (HPC) research platform.
• Leading, Consulting, designing, and implementing scalable, fault-tolerant, and secure AWS infrastructure and applications using Infrastructure as Code ( IaC ) principles and AWS Cloud's best practices;
• Automating the deployment, testing, and monitoring of applications through CI/CD pipelines;
• Monitoring and troubleshooting issues in production environments, leveraging AWS services like Amazon CloudWatch, CloudTrail, AWS IAM, AWS compute services like EC2, Parallel Cluster, AWS Lambda, ECS Fargate etc ;
• Optimizing the performance, cost, and reliability of AWS-based applications; Collaborating with development teams to ensure that application code is compatible with the underlying infrastructure and cloud-native best practices;
• Implementing security and governance controls to ensure the integrity and compliance of the AWS environment
• Continuously improving the DevSecOps processes and toolchain to enhance the overall efficiency and agility of the organization.
• Develops problem resolution for application software as needed. Conducts research and testing to determine cause and makes necessary corrections.
• Leads critical and highly technical/complex projects utilizing FRIT/System staff and resources.
• Follows and ensures adherence to technical standards for programming and design techniques. Trains System technical staff on use of software/hardware tools in accordance with required standards and procedures.
• Ensures compliance with internal audit requirements and Information Security Manual guidelines.

Qualifications:

• 10+ years experience pertaining to concepts and principles in functional area primarily AWS cloud engineering.
• Ability to act as a trusted advisor with broad audiences, both technical and nontechnical to present information in a credible, confident, and influential manner. Communicates in a concise, direct, and purposeful way.
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related area required . Master's Degree may be preferred.
• Excellent customer service skills and demonstrated ability to interact with anticipated audiences in a courteous, service-oriented manner.
• Proven track record working effectively within large enterprise environments characterized by matrix reporting structures and cross-functional collaboration.
• AWS Associate or Professional certifications strongly preferred.

Discover the Reason Why So Many People Love It Here!

When you join Federal Reserve's National IT organization, 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
• Paid volunteer leave
• Onsite amenities that make working here fun!

Other Requirements and Considerations:

• Candidates should review the Bank's 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 .
• 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 or three or more years of Permanent Resident () status.
• Please note that this role is required to be in office at a district reserve bank location.
• The national hiring range for the Advanced AWS Engineer is $1 33,100 - $ 183,040 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.
• Salary offered will be based on the job responsibilities and the individual's knowledge, skills, and experience as defined in the job qualifications/experience.
• Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. Interested candidates are strongly encouraged to apply by January 15 , 202 6 .
• Always verify and apply to jobs on Federal Reserve System Careers or through verified Federal Reserve Bank social media channels.

Full Time / Part Time
Full time

Regular / Temporary
Regular

Job Exempt (Yes / No)
Yes

Job Category
Information Technology Family Group

Work Shift
First (United States of America)

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