Sr./Lead Site Reliability Engineer

$181,600 - $221,900/Yr

Federal Reserve Bank - San Francisco, CA

Part-time,Full-time - Senior

Remote - San Francisco, CA

Monetary Authorities-Central Bank

About the position

As a Sr. /Lead Site Reliability Engineer at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, you will play a crucial role in managing the systems that support the Cash Application Delivery Services (ADS) applications suite, both on-premises and in the cloud. Your primary focus will be to ensure optimal operation of applications, facilitate quick troubleshooting, and maintain high availability of cloud-based assets. This position emphasizes collaboration with various teams, including development, QA, and DevOps, to enhance system performance and reliability while adhering to security standards.

Responsibilities

• Establish and run playbooks to support the resolution of incidents in production environments.
• Help design dashboards for effective monitoring of infrastructure resources in cloud environments.
• Work with development teams to establish Service-Level Objectives and key Service-Level Indicators.
• Conduct Production Readiness Reviews to ensure services meet operational readiness standards before going live.
• Ensure infrastructure aligns with security standards, assist in audits, and implement recommended practices to protect data and systems.
• Facilitate the design and implementation of Disaster Recovery plans, including backups, failover, and recovery mechanisms.
• Drive improvement opportunities in infrastructure, tooling, and workflows using a continuous feedback loop between development and CloudOps.
• Ensure uptime and reliability of cloud-based infrastructure and systems, monitoring performance and maintaining high availability.
• Participate in incident response and troubleshooting by conducting root cause analysis and implementing solutions to prevent recurrence.
• Establish thresholds for cloud-based services, set up and maintain monitoring systems, and configure alerts for system anomalies.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Computer Engineering, Systems Analysis, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 7+ years of industry experience in building and supporting enterprise-level systems as a platform engineer or equivalent in a production environment (for Lead SRE).
• 5+ years of hands-on experience implementing, supporting, and using tools and services for software orchestration and environment monitoring (for Senior SRE).
• Experience in Ansible, GitLab, Terraform, CloudWatch, Dynatrace, Grafana is required.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience with AWS services, including AWS Lambda, AWS CloudWatch, and AWS X-Ray.

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Pre-tax Flexible Spending Account
• Backup Child Care Program
• Pre-Tax Day Care Flexible Spending Account
• Paid Family Care Leave
• Vacation Days
• Sick Days
• Paid Holidays
• Pet Insurance
• Matching 401(k)
• Retirement/Pension