Platform Engineer - Cloud

Company
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
The Platform Engineer - Cloud performs a critical role delivering the core capabilities and features of a strategic cloud platform. You will be responsible for the delivery of platform enablers including the design, build, security and operationalization of reusable cloud platform components in support of Financial Services users and stakeholders. The Platform Engineer - Cloud role will also encompass developing, building, administering, and deploying self-service tools that enable Application Delivery Teams within the Federal Reserve Financial Services to build, deploy, and operate applications on the cloud platform. You will be expected to maintain a deep technical knowledge of the AWS ecosystem and the capabilities and tools required to create platform patterns and technical best-practices with the goal of increasing adoption, operational efficiency, and realized business value. They will help drive decisions on the correct usage of cloud resources, troubleshoot performance issues, and ensure the highest level of reliability for the platform by tuning the environment for maximum scalability, cost efficiency, and security. You will report to the Manager of the team and will not have direct reports.
Your Responsibilities
Platform Lifecycle

• Drive design, engineering, implementation, and configuration of platform services to support overall enterprise patterns and reinforcing best practices.
• Develop patterns for common platform needs (e.g., logging, monitoring, alerting, backup, encryption, tooling, etc.) across all layers of the platform and supporting services.
• Work with business and technology partners to identify, define, interpret, and clarify scope of the data management platform integrations.
• Partner with Information Security representatives to develop, implement and/or execute security configurations and controls.
• Apply and integrate emerging technology trends to new and existing platform enablers.
• Support and refine the utilization strategy for the platform and enhance its overall architecture, security, performance, and financial aspects.
• Contribute to platform, product, and architectural roadmaps.
• Design Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment pipelines to enable code releases
• Enable continuous monitoring to resolve issues
• Utilize platform metrics to automate scale and resilient recovery
• Ensuring the platform is built, deployed, configured, managed, and monitored correctly to support the business

Platform Administration

• Perform development of common platform components and advanced configuration activities in the cloud platform.
• Create integrations between the cloud platform and other FRS enterprise services and 3rd party tools.
• Manage the core security model configurations in accordance with information security.
• Develop comprehensive monitoring solutions to provide full visibility to the different platform components
• Automate design patterns as Infrastructure-as -Code (IaC) and implement and test the automation
• Ability to build, test and deploy Docker images

Operational Excellence

• Provide support for deployed products and services by being a trusted advisor to product delivery teams helping identify cloud problems and guiding issue resolution.
• Develop and maintains automation for deployments to reduce manual processes and improve efficiencies across cloud environments.
• Leads solution design discussions, develops work effort estimates for implementation and presents solutions.
• Draft and maintains solution documentation for platform components, integrations, and common use patterns to meet all architectural, security and operational requirements as defined by the larger Federal Reserve System.
• Participate in code reviews by receiving and providing feedback on code produced
• Perform well given a high level of independence and autonomy and will establish a cadence of on-time delivery with high-quality work.

Your Background

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work-related experience
• 5 years of Cloud Engineering experience (AWS Preferred)
• Experience building and delivering highly available platform solutions, all while ensuring a high level of quality
• Experience integrating platform with 3rd party solutions (e.g. from cloud to on-prem and vice-versa, etc.)
• Experience with engineering solutions across a heterogeneous landscape of on-prem datacenters, cloud and SaaS environments
• Experience and solid understanding of complex, multi-region, highly available state-less and state-full deployments
• Experience with AWS Landing Zone and/or AWS Control Tower
• Demonstrable experience with scripting & programming languages (e.g. Python, Ruby, Bash, Powershell, Ansible, JavaScript, JSON, YAML, etc.)
• Demonstrable experience with cloud automation tooling and Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, CDK, etc.)
• Demonstrable experience using and configuring Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery tools (e.g GitLab, Jenkins, Concourse)
• Experience building infrastructure solutions leveraging containers/ container orchestration, including tools such as Kubernetes, Docker, Lambda, and serverless deployments
• Advanced experience with AWS load balancers, S3, CloudFront, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, VPC etc.
• Experience with configuration management tools and techniques e.g including Ansible, Chef, Puppet, SaltStack
• Working knowledge of application, data, and infrastructure architecture discipline
• Experience with Secret Management (AWS Secrets Manager, HashiCorp Vault)
• Solid understanding of Cloud Security (OAuth, OIDC)
• Knowledge and understanding of microservice based architectures, APIs, etc.
• Experience in a multi-account AWS environment is a plus
• Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery models including Blue/Green and Canary release models is a plus
• Experience with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) highly preferred, however experience leveraging other Agile Methodologies will still be considered.
• Proven ability to manage one's time and prioritize work based on risk and critical need
• Excellent interpersonal, attention to detail, and oral and written communication skills.
• Proven, hands on, full stack application development experience
• Currently holds a certification that demonstrates technical knowledge with Amazon Web Services (AWS) (e.g. AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified SysOps Administrator or comparable) is preferred

What we offer:

• Comprehensive benefits package includes medical, dental, vision, prescription drug coverage, 401k savings plan, retirement plan, paid time off, transit benefit, onsite gym and subsidized cafeteria
• A continuous learning environment with opportunities to gain new skills and grow your career

Requirements

• All Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago employees must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, and receive a booster shot within 30 days of being eligible to do so, unless the Bank grants an accommodation based on medical condition or sincerely held religious belief.
• Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States without the need for visa sponsorship now or in the future.
• This position has additional screening requirements due to the information accessed while performing the job. These additional screenings would be initiated at the time of offer acceptance and can take approximately two months to be completed. The screening covers areas such as education/employment verification, criminal history, credit history, and reaches out to your references and people that know you well.
• As a condition of employment, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago employees must comply with the Bank's ethics rules, which generally prohibit employees, their spouses/domestic partners, and minor children from owning securities, such as stock, of banks or savings associations or their affiliates, such as bank holding companies and savings and loan holding companies. 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, who can provide you contact information for our ethics official if necessary

Full Time / Part Time
Full time
Regular / Temporary
Regular
Job Exempt (Yes / No)
Yes
Job Category
Sales/Marketing
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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