CADRE Infrastructure Support Engineer

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.

Important Information


* The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization.

Candidates must be authorized to work in the US without an end date.


* This is a hybrid role and requires working on-site, in Kansas City, Denver, Oklahoma City or Omaha, a minimum of 50% monthly.


* This role is not eligible to be full time remote.

About the Role

As an embedded IT group, the Center for the Advancement of Data and Research in Economics (CADRE) supports data or computationally intensive research and analytics for staff in the Economic Research division of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City and across the Federal Reserve System.

Our technology services include multiple high performance computing environments, research data warehousing and curating services, and endpoint support.

We are committed to personal development, training, and research.

CADRE is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer to apply a broad range of knowledge in support of our many connected technologies.

Core responsibilities include the administration of virtualization platforms, storage systems, and data backup solutions.

You should also be knowledgeable in networking concepts and hardware, and comfortable working with Linux and Windows systems.

For the right candidate, responsibilities may also include supporting High Performance Computing clusters and users.

Key Activities


* Configure, install, and support virtualization platforms, storage systems, and backup solutions.


* Respond to user requests via a ticketing tool.


* Monitor and manage system health and capacity.


* Collaborate with CADRE engineers and System IT resources to investigate and resolve issues.


* Vendor management.


* Collaborating on yearly budgeting processes as related to hardware refreshes, new system purchases, and support contracts.


* Manage physical assets within the Kansas City data center.


* Occasional after-hours and on-call support is required.


* Review and analyze business and technical requirements and implement technical solutions to meet those requirements.


* Perform other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications


* Typically requires at least 6-15+ years of relevant and progressive information technology experience directly related to design, installation, and support of information technology infrastructure.

New team members will be hired into the software engineer job family according to skills and experience.


* Bachelor’s degree specializing in STEM ...