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

• United States citizenship is required for this position.

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

• This is a hybrid role and requires working on-site, in Kansas City, MO, a minimum of 50% monthly.

About the Role

• The Treasury Data Transparency & Strategy (DTAS) team is seeking a Cloud DevOps Engineer to support the Fiscal Data Treasury Team. The successful candidate will be a team-oriented DevOps Engineer with experience and eagerness to work on infrastructure, operations, CI, CD, deployment, data management, and information security. They will maintain operational stability of a platform supporting multiple development teams, app deployments, and databases, to reduce risk to site availability, and security. Daily activities will include executing recurring operations and maintenance tasks such as data snapshotting and archiving, security patching, and infrastructure scaling and monitoring. The desired outcome is to perform DevOps activities to control, automate, and accelerate the Agile SDLC and DataOps to orchestrate the delivery of data among systems.

Key Activities

• Applies the principles of software engineering to the design, implementation, configuration, and optimization of solutions in support of applications, databases, test automation tools, and Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) products.

• Demonstrates technical skill in at least one programming general purpose language (Python, Terraform, etc.) and domain specific language (SQL, proprietary vendor language, etc.), as needed.

• Performs peer reviews using software engineering principles, patterns, and development guidelines.

• Partners with customers in the development of innovative solutions that achieve business goals.

• Reviews and analyzes business and technical requirements and implements technical solutions to meet those requirements.

• Provides data on-call support, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, incident management, and service request management for supported products and environments.

• Performs other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications

• Typically requires 3-6+ 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.

• Experienced to 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience creating and operating applications and infrastructure in AWS.

• Demonstrated ability to write application code and automation scripts in a thoughtful, abstracted, and organized way.

• Experience with Python, Ansible, Terraform, and containerization.

• Knowledge and experience managing large data sources and the flow of data between stages for public and analytical consumption.

• Understanding of end-to-end modern agile software development.

• Experience with authoring, configuring, scheduling, and scaling a suite of Jenkins pipelines.

• Sustaining operational security of systems and justifying sufficiency.

Additional Information

Location(s):

• Hybrid – Kansas City, MO

• Remote Eligible – No

Salary:

• $81,400 - $112,000 / Experienced Level

• $100,400 - $138,100 / Senior Level

• Final offers are determined by factors including the candidate’s qualifications, internal alignment considerations, district assignment, and geographic location.

Screening : United States citizenship is required for this position. This position has additional screening requirements due to the information accessed while preforming the job. These additional screenings would be initiated at the time of offer acceptance and can take up to a couple of months to be completed. You can begin work before the screening is completed; however, continued employment is contingent on acceptable screening results. The areas screened may include education/employment verification, criminal history, credit history, and reference checks.

Sponsorship : The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position . Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States without an end date and without the need for visa sponsorship now or in the future.

About Us

• Total Rewards & Benefits (https://www.kansascityfed.org/careers/benefits/)

• Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

• Who We Are (https://www.kansascityfed.org/careers/who-we-are/)

• What We Do

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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)

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