IT Systems Engineering Specialist at Federal Reserve Bank (FRB) in New York, New York

Job Description:

Company

Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Working at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York positions you at the center of the financial world with a unique perspective on national and international markets and economies. You will work in an environment with a diverse group of experienced professionals to foster and support the safety, soundness, and vitality of our economic and financial systems.  

 The Bank believes in work flexibility to balance the demands of work and life while also connecting and collaborating with our colleagues in person. Employees can expect to be in the office a couple of days per week as needed for meetings and team collaboration and should live within a commutable distance. 

What we do: 

Enterprise Support (ES) Consolidates accountability for all technology support services across the Bank. Oversees infrastructure and operations support processes to ensure stability and continuous improvement of the production environments.

Your role as IT Systems Engineering Specialist:

Provide infrastructure engineering and engineering support throughout the Bank. Designs, develops, troubleshoots, and debugs software programs for software enhancements and new products.

• Build cloud infrastructure engineering capabilities and support administration of various AWS environments. Developing implementation strategy, building procedures/guidelines and providing insight into best practices.




• Work closely with NIT Partners and other FRS entities to influence the implementation direction of Technology to meet New York priorities. The Cloud Infrastructure Engineer will help develop and implement highly available infrastructure model, security best practices, monitoring/observability capabilities in alignment with AWS 5 pillar strategy.




• Provide engineering expertise on agile teams/squads to implement and release applications, platforms, and services into multiple environments. Work collaboratively across cross-functional teams to solve complex problems; influences outcomes, practices, and/or procedures.




• Manage large projects or processes and works independently with limited management oversight.




• Assist with the evaluation of proposed technical solutions and their ability to integrate with the FRS computing environment, including applicable security and compliance frameworks. Works with appropriate service partners to implement deployment automation and software defined infrastructure

What we are looking for:

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  Experience building and managing enterprise cloud infrastructure with hands-on experience in AWS and/or Azure environments including:

  
  
  
  

  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and CloudFormation tools.

  
  

  • Experience building modularized, re-usable code with Terraform modules

  
  

  • Experience working with various AWS services including but not limited to IAM, EC2, S3, ELB/ALB, RDS/Aurora, ElastiCache Redis, ECS/EKS, MSK.

  
  

  • Experience implementing monitoring & observability solutions, building custom dashboards with AWS native, 3rd party cloud monitoring solutions such as Dynatrace, Grafana

  
  

  • Experience with relational database implementations using AWS Aurora PostgreSQL, RDS SQL server.

  
  

  • Experience with nosql database implementations using AWS DocumentDB, Mongo Atlas databases.  

  
  
  
  



• Experience with container implementations using Elastic Container Services (ECS), Elastic Kubernetes Services (EKS), Docker.




• Experience with highly-resilient, low-latency messaging platforms using AWS MSK, Confluent Kafka.




• Experience in setting up DevOps infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, driving automated build management using GitLab preferred.




• Extensive expertise in providing guidance, building highly available/fault-tolerant enterprise class infrastructure with multiple-region and multi-AZ models.




• Development experience using Python and/or Java preferred.




• Experience translating architectural plans and business requirements into infrastructure implementations.

Salary Range: $175000 - $220000 / year  

We believe in transparency at the NY Fed. This salary range reflects a variety of skills and experiences candidates may bring to the job. We pay individuals along this range based on their unique backgrounds. Whether you’re stretching into the job or are a more seasoned candidate, we aim to pay competitively for your contributions.  

  

Our Touchstone Behaviors—Communicate Authentically, Collaborate Inclusively, Drive Progress, Develop Others, and Take Ownership—help shape the culture of the Bank. They also provide a shared language for how we work together and achieve success, and they set clear expectations for leading with impact at every stage of your career with us. Learn more.  

  

Benefits:  

Our organization offers benefits that are the best fit for you at every stage of your career:  

• Fully paid Pension plan and 401k with Generous Match  

• Comprehensive Insurance Plans (Medical, Dental and Vision including Flexible Spending Accounts and HSA)  

• Subsidized Public Transportation Program  

• Tuition Assistance Program   

• Onsite Fitness & Wellness Center  

• And more  

The New York Fed expects its employees to perform their duties with honesty, integrity, and impartiality, and without improper preferential treatment of any person. Learn more about our code of conduct and conflicts of interest rules.  

  

The Federal Reserve Bank of New York is committed to a diverse workforce and to providing equal employment opportunity to all persons without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, genetic information, disability, pregnancy, or military service.  

  

We value accessibility for all candidates and are happy to provide an accommodation or assistance. Please email us at ny.leaves@ny.frb.org and we’ll be glad to help. Please note, this is a dedicated e-mail box designed exclusively to assist applications with accommodation requests in relation to our recruiting process. All other inquires including the status of applications will not receive a response from this e-mail box.   

  

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, management reserves the right to revise the job or to require that other or different tasks be performed when circumstances change.  

This position requires access to confidential supervisory information (CSI) and/or Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) information. Access to CSI and FOMC information is limited to U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents, individuals who meet the definition of “protected individual” under 8 U.S.C. § 1324b(a)(3), and certain other nonimmigrants. All non-U.S. citizens authorized to access CSI and/or FOMC information must sign a declaration of intent to expeditiously become a lawful permanent resident and thereafter a U.S. citizen when eligible. 

Full Time / Part Time

Full time

Regular / Temporary

Regular

Job Exempt (Yes / No)

Yes

Job Category

Information Technology

Work Shift

First (United States of America)

The Federal Reserve Banks believe that diversity and inclusion among our employees is critical to our success as an organization, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. The Federal Reserve Banks are committed to equal employment opportunity for employees and job applicants in compliance with applicable law and to an environment where employees are valued for their differences.

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