Senior Site Reliability Engineer

About the role

Join the Technical Operations department to manage the production environment for the FedNow Service, a 24/7 real-time payment platform. You will apply software and systems engineering principles to ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of this mission-critical distributed system.

Key facts

What you'll do

• Architect and deploy monitoring solutions for capacity planning, utilization tracking, and system scaling.
• Design and develop automation for CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code.
• Manage resiliency, disaster recovery, and business continuity planning, including testing.
• Identify architectural gaps and run experiments to test system limits.
• Oversee ITIL processes and drive continuous improvement initiatives for the FedNow program.

Requirements

• Proficiency in Python, Java, or Go for automation and operational tooling.
• Expertise in AWS services including EC2, EKS, RDS, Aurora, S3, Route 53, ELB, and IAM.
• Experience with Linux environments and shell scripting.
• Background in supporting infrastructure for large-scale, multi-service, containerized applications.
• Must have resided in the United States for at least three years.
• Salary range: $140,000 to $210,900.

Nice to have

• Experience with Hashicorp tools: Terraform, Consul, Vault, and Ansible.
• Familiarity with fault injection tools such as AWS Fault Injection Simulator, Gremlin, ChaosToolkit, or Chaos Monkey.
• Observability experience using CloudWatch, OpenSearch, Dynatrace, Grafana, or Prometheus.

Skills & tools

• AWS (EC2, EKS, RDS, Aurora, S3, Route 53, ELB, IAM)
• Hashicorp Stack (Terraform, Consul, Vault, Ansible)
• Programming: Python, Java, Go
• Containerization: Docker, ECR, EKS
• Observability: CloudWatch, OpenSearch, Dynatrace, Grafana, Prometheus
• Fault Injection: AWS FIS, Gremlin, ChaosToolkit, Chaos Monkey

Practical notes

• Employment is contingent upon passing a two-phase security screening, including a physical exam, drug test, credit check, and criminal history check.
• Employees are subject to FBI fingerprinting and OFAC watch list checks every five years.
• The final job level within the SRE family is determined by the candidate's specific experience.
• Apply only via the official Federal Reserve System Careers portal.