Senior AWS Cloud Engineer

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 are building a dynamic team for our future.

Bring your passion and expertise, and we'll provide opportunities that will challenge you and propel your growth – along with benefits that support your health, wealth, and life. In addition to competitive compensation, we offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes tuition assistance, generous paid time off, top‑notch health care benefits, child and family care leave, professional development opportunities, a 401(k) match, pension, and more.

All brought together in a work environment where you can truly find balance.

Are you a passionate cloud engineer who has delivered systems in a fast‑paced agile environment? We are looking for a senior‑level engineer who is a seasoned professional with a full understanding of cloud industry best practices.

This is a hands‑on position that will consult, advise, and develop conceptual, logical, and software engineering designs, solutions, and applications to support the infrastructure requirements of varying levels of technical and business application projects in AWS cloud environments. This position will also analyze business requirements as they relate to technical infrastructure design and ensure the traceability of the design to the business requirements.

You will evaluate testing requirements, prepare testing strategies, and prepare implementation and transition plans.

This is an in‑office role and must report to one of our district reserve bank locations.

• Lead and involve in consulting activities, advisory and documentation tasks in partnership with NIT, Cloud Foundation Teams and various district stakeholders to meet the business requirements and goals.
• Collaborate with cloud teams and research business stakeholders to translate requirements and advise on efficient, cost‑effective AWS‑based solutions using industry standard Software Development Lifecycle practices.
• Guide & implement the selection and deployment of AWS services, ensuring alignment with industry best practices and security compliance requirements.
• Provide ongoing support, monitoring, and optimization of the internal cloud environment, including various compute and data environments.
• Serve as a subject‑matter expert on enterprise engineering best practices specific to cloud computing.
• Contribute to both the strategic planning and to the eventual solution build of a High Performance Computing (HPC) research platform.
• Lead, consult, design, and implement scalable, fault‑tolerant, and secure AWS infrastructure and applications using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles and AWS Cloud’s best practices.
• Automate the deployment, testing, and monitoring of applications through CI/CD pipelines.
• Monitor and troubleshoot issues in production environments, leveraging AWS services like Amazon Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail, AWS IAM, EC2, Parallel Cluster, Lambda, ECS Fargate, etc.
• Optimize the performance, cost, and reliability of AWS‑based applications; collaborate with development teams to ensure that application code is compatible with the underlying infrastructure and cloud‑native best practices.
• Implement security and governance controls to ensure the integrity and compliance of the AWS environment.
• Continuously improve the Dev Sec Ops  processes and toolchain to enhance the overall efficiency and agility of the organization.
• Develop problem resolution for application software as needed. Conduct research and testing to determine cause and make necessary corrections.
• Lead critical and highly technical/complex projects utilizing FRIT/System staff and resources.
• Follow and ensure adherence to technical standards for programming and design techniques. Train System technical staff on use of software/hardware tools in accordance with required standards and procedures.
• Ensure compliance with internal audit…