Site Reliability Engineer, Advanced

Company

Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City

​​​​​​​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.

The Application Delivery Services department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer/Software Engineer with skills in AWS Cloud, Postgres SQL, and Java development.

This role will support the design, development, and engineering of large, highly complex payment card device applications and will utilize a variety of technologies and techniques including, enterprise software patterns, client-server, and advanced security principles.

 

Our collaborative teams create products and solutions using some of the following technologies but not limited to Java, Angular, Python, Docker, Kubernetes, Blockchain, AWS technologies like S3, API Gateway, EMR, Kinesis, Lambda, EKS, SQS, Aurora and DynamoDB.

Our engineers use the principles of software engineering to design, implement, configure, and optimize applications, databases, test automation tools, and integrations with Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) products to support business solutions that serve the mission of the Federal Reserve System.

Successful engineers work in collaborative team environments, embrace agile delivery methods and have experience with technology with a willingness to embrace learning to meet the ever-changing and evolving technical landscape.

Our engineers also perform troubleshooting, root cause analysis, are engaged in incident and service request management and provide on-call support for supported products and environments.

 

Basic Qualifications


* Typically requires at least 6 years of relevant experience.


* Bachelor’s degree specializing in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics), or a closely related field, from an accredited college or university, or equivalent combination of directly related education and/or experience.


* Demonstrated proficiency with some of the following technologies on a Cloud platform: AWS cloud native services, Infrastructure as Code, Python, Java, GitLab, and PostgreSQL. 


* Proven Java experience required.


* Senior understanding of subject.

Has in-depth and/or breadth of knowledge in discipline


* Performs work independently with limited supervision and direction.

Serves as a resource for less experienced staff.


* United States citizenship is required for this position.

 

Preferred Qualifications


* 6+ years of hands-on, professional software development experience in building scalable applications.


* 2+ years hands-on experience using some the following technologies on a Cloud platform :- Python,
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