IT Systems Engineering Specialist

$175,000 - $220,000/Yr

Federal Reserve Bank - New York, NY

Part-time,Full-time - Mid Level

New York, NY

Monetary Authorities-Central Bank

About the position

The IT Systems Engineering Specialist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York plays a crucial role in providing infrastructure engineering and support across the Bank. This position involves designing, developing, troubleshooting, and debugging software programs, as well as building cloud infrastructure capabilities, particularly within AWS environments. The role requires collaboration with various teams to implement best practices and ensure the stability and continuous improvement of production environments.

Responsibilities

• Provide infrastructure engineering and engineering support throughout the Bank.
• Design, develop, troubleshoot, and debug software programs for enhancements and new products.
• Build cloud infrastructure engineering capabilities and support administration of various AWS environments.
• Develop implementation strategies, build procedures/guidelines, and provide insight into best practices.
• Work closely with NIT Partners and other FRS entities to influence the implementation direction of Technology to meet New York priorities.
• Help develop and implement a highly available infrastructure model, security best practices, and monitoring capabilities in alignment with AWS 5 pillar strategy.
• Provide engineering expertise on agile teams to implement and release applications, platforms, and services into multiple environments.
• Collaborate across cross-functional teams to solve complex problems and influence outcomes, practices, and procedures.
• Manage large projects or processes independently with limited management oversight.
• Assist with evaluating proposed technical solutions and their integration with the FRS computing environment.

Requirements

• Experience building and managing enterprise cloud infrastructure with hands-on experience in AWS and/or Azure environments.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and CloudFormation tools.
• Experience building modularized, reusable code with Terraform modules.
• Experience working with various AWS services including IAM, EC2, S3, ELB/ALB, RDS/Aurora, ElastiCache Redis, ECS/EKS, MSK.
• Experience implementing monitoring & observability solutions, building custom dashboards with AWS native and 3rd party cloud monitoring solutions such as Dynatrace, Grafana.
• Experience with relational database implementations using AWS Aurora PostgreSQL and RDS SQL server.
• Experience with NoSQL database implementations using AWS DocumentDB and Mongo Atlas databases.
• Experience with container implementations using Elastic Container Services (ECS), Elastic Kubernetes Services (EKS), Docker.
• Experience with highly-resilient, low-latency messaging platforms using AWS MSK and Confluent Kafka.
• Experience in setting up DevOps infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and driving automated build management using GitLab preferred.
• Extensive expertise in providing guidance for building highly available/fault-tolerant enterprise class infrastructure with multiple-region and multi-AZ models.
• Development experience using Python and/or Java preferred.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience translating architectural plans and business requirements into infrastructure implementations.

Benefits

• Fully paid Pension plan and 401k with Generous Match
• Comprehensive Insurance Plans (Medical, Dental and Vision including Flexible Spending Accounts and HSA)
• Subsidized Public Transportation Program
• Tuition Assistance Program
• Onsite Fitness & Wellness Center