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Position Overview: Are you looking for an opportunity to join our fast paced and passionate team that supports multiple IT applications built on various technologies with continuous modernization in progress? Then read on! We are the Modern Delivery Tool Chain (MDTC) team accountable to lead continuous improvement of operations, operational automation, and high availability for tools.
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Our Impact: - We build and enhance software applications required for mandatory reporting of Freddie Mac's mortgage loan data to Federal Housing Finance Agency.
- Partner with Product and Business team members to ensure high quality product is developed and released into production.
- Work closely with Architecture, Stakeholders, Operations Partners, and Business Product teams to specify and refine solutions and practices.
- Evolve a DevOps culture to provide high quality, continuous operations, and ongoing support ensuring critical service level metrics, customer requirements and financial objectives.
- Driver for modernization of Freddie Mac's 5000+ customers to release small incremental changes to production at 5x pace.
Your Impact: - Design, develop and test innovative and automation solutions in the areas of data engineering including technology implementations using Agile construct.
- Has experience working with partners and teammates to solidify solution design, contribute to design working sessions, and outline solution path for new capability development.
- Supporting DevOps pipeline offerings for deployment of microservices into EKS and OpenShift cluster ecosystems for mid to large sized enterprise environments
- Support applications, including providing fixes to production defects and making enhancements.
- Has experience within the Kubernetes platform and has familiarity with Continuous Deployment tools such as Spinnaker and Helm for deployment of workloads, and has understanding of service communication technologies such as Istio
- Experience in source code management, repository management and package management with tools such as; JFrog Artifactory, Bitbucket, and Helm for Kubernetes Package management
- Has proven ability to collaborate with partner teams and peer to support technology implementation and solution delivery in ecosystems using; AWS, Elastisearch, Logstache, Kibana, Open Policy Agent (OPA), Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA), Docker & containerized workloads, Service Mesh tools, Information Security tools such as HashiCorp Vault and CyberArk for Credentials Management
- Understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) practices, familiar in building CI/CD pipelines and practicing Test Driven Development (TDD) for writing test case scenarios for automated testing.
- Possesses eagerness to explore new technologies to innovate, solve problems, perform proof-of-concepts, & conduct exploratory research.
- Has experience working with cross-functional teams to deliver features and products; for delivery of capabilities to large user populations.
- Provide level of effort required for development and testing of software components.
- Quickly learn new and legacy technologies and paradigms to deploy cutting edge solutions.
- Quickly evaluate defects, investigate causes and come up with solutions to address defects.
- Write automated test scripts and test code written by peer developers.
- Provide production support and providing clear communication on the resolution of incidents.
- Independently collaborate with upstream/downstream and IT support teams to lead conversations, implement solutions and resolve issues.
Qualifications: - Bachelors or advanced degree or directly relevant professional experience; advanced studies/degree preferred
- 5+ years of experience in delivering solutions using Software Development Life Cycle
- 5+ years' experience in developing Data Engineering solutions.
- 5+ years' experience working with complex SQL queries and Unix environment.
- Proven hands-on experience Groovy scripting
- Experience with Docker containerization
- Exposure handling deployments
- Knowledge and experience working with AWS (EKS)
- Strong writing skills. Detail driven with respect to documentation.
- Desire to expand knowledge & skillset in cloud based technologies & patterns
Keys to Success in this Role: - Knowledge and experience working with Python and Java
- Takes accountability, sets expectations, and delivers high quality technical solutions within agreed upon level of effort
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to quickly comprehend the functions and capabilities of new technologies.
- Derive excitement and thrive in a fast-paced and constantly evolving culture.
- Outstanding interpersonal, technical, and organizational skills.
- Passion for driving value to customers and excitement for modern digital processes (Agile) and deliver.
Current Freddie Mac employees please apply through the internal career site. We consider all applicants for all positions without regard to gender, race, color, religion, national origin, age, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, physical and mental disability, pregnancy, ethnicity, genetic information or any other protected categories under applicable federal, state or local laws. We will ensure that individuals are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
A safe and secure environment is critical to Freddie Mac's business. This includes employee commitment to our acceptable use policy, applying a vigilance-first approach to work, supporting regulatory mandates, and using best practices to protect Freddie Mac from potential threats and risk. Employees exercise this responsibility by executing against policies and procedures and adhering to privacy & security obligations as required via training programs.
CA Applicants: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
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Time-type:Full time
FLSA Status:Exempt
Freddie Mac offers a comprehensive total rewards package to include competitive compensation and market-leading benefit programs. Information on these benefit programs is available on our Careers site.
This position has an annualized market-based salary range of $127,000 - $191,000 and is eligible to participate in the annual incentive program. The final salary offered will generally fall within this range and is dependent on various factors including but not limited to the responsibilities of the position, experience, skill set, internal pay equity and other relevant qualifications of the applicant.
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