FedNow Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Company

Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

Federal Reserve Financial Services (FRFS) delivers a suite of payments services to financial institutions via FedLine® Solutions, FedNowSM, Fedwire®, National Settlement Service (NSS), FedCash®, FedACH® (Automated Clearing House), and Check Services.

We are currently leading a strategic effort to transform FRFS to a national, enterprise-focused organization.

Through our evolved structure, we will meet the needs of the marketplace for new products and services more quickly, seek to provide a more robust and unified customer experience across our financial service offerings, and create new career growth opportunities for FRFS staff.

We are seeking leaders to set the vision, strategy, values, and priorities that enable FRFS to achieve its mission.

Our leaders must demonstrate a strategic, action-oriented mindset focused on intellectual curiosity, agility, accountability, and the ability to drive innovation through experimentation.

To achieve our vision for a people-focused organization with a strong collaborative and innovative culture, we expect our leaders to champion an inclusive environment and demonstrate our values in how we work and interact with each other and our broader community.

The Federal Reserve has developed a new interbank 24x7x365 real-time gross settlement (RTGS) service with integrated clearing functionality, called the FedNow Service.

This service enables financial institutions to provide their customers with the ability to send and receive payments any time, any day, and have full access to those funds within seconds.

This position is a unique opportunity to be part of this mission-critical Federal Reserve initiative that is transforming the payments landscape in the United States.

Candidates that live near one of our Reserve Bank locations will be provided some work from home flexibility.

Rules for hybrid work arrangements differs from Bank to Bank and should be discussed during the interview process.

Responsibilities 

 


* As a Senior Engineer of the SRE / Production Operations team for FedNow, you will operate the production environment for the program. 


* You will architect, implement, and leverage solution monitoring and tooling to be used for capacity planning, utilization reporting, and scaling.  


* The team uses open source and proprietary software to support Engineering, DevOps, and DevSecOps tools, services, and solutions. 


* CI/CD and IaC Pipeline automation design and development. 


* Resiliency, DR and BCP (including testing) 


* The SRE / Production Operations team is part of the Technical Operations (TechOps) department and has the overall responsibility for the design, management and execution of operations required to support the ongoing technical and delivery needs of the FedNow Program, as well as the transition to production support and operations.  


* This team interfaces with internal stakeholders, customers fo...