Sr Cloud Engineer

Company Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis The St Louis Fed is one of 12 Reserve Banks serving all or parts of Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Arkansas with branches in Little Rock, Louisville and Memphis. The St. Louis Fed’s most critical functions include promoting stable prices and economic growth, fostering a sound financial system, providing payment services to financial institutions, supporting the U.S. Treasury’s financial operations, and advancing economic education, community development and fair access to credit.

The Bank strives to maintain an engaging and exciting work environment that is both inviting and collegial.

• Understand current infrastructure and stack to employ best cloud solutions. Design cost-effective migration strategies, taking advantage of cloud services.
• Work with infrastructure and engineering teams to migrate portfolio applications to cloud services.
• Conduct analysis, testing, updating, and debugging, identifying bottlenecks and bugs in the system and develop solutions.
• Translate complex application stories, use cases, and business concept designs into functional, dynamic applications.
• Develop reusable and scalable code using industry standard software development practices, techniques, tools, and frameworks.
• Work with cross functional teams, integrate solutions, and handle data conversions and migrations.
• Be a technology leader and foster a learning and innovation culture within the Information Technology Division and across the Federal Reserve System.

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university with specialization in an information technology field (e.g., Computer/Management Information Systems (MIS/CIS), Computer Science (CS), Electrical/Computer Engineering (EE/CE), or an equivalent combination of related education and work experience).
• Typically requires at least 10 years of relevant and progressive information technology experience directly related to architecture, design, and development of cloud and software solutions, ranging in complexity from department-class to enterprise-class.
• Familiarity with Industry cloud implementation and software development methodologies, standards and architecture frameworks is required.
• Demonstrated proficiency with some of the following technologies on a Cloud platform: cloud native services, Infrastructure as Code, Python, Java, Git Lab, and Postgre
  
  SQL is required.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Cloud Formation) is required.
• Excellent organizational, project management and problem-s ollving skills is required.
• Experience using modern CI/CD pipelines using Dev Ops tooling (e.g. Git, Bitbucket, Bamboo, Git Lab, Maven, Nexus, Fortify, Sonar, etc.) is required.
• Demonstrated ability to adapt and learn new technologies is required.
• Excellent initiative, innovative thinking skills, and the ability to analyze details and adopt a big-picture view is required.
• Experience with AWS cloud services (esp. EC2, ECS and/or EKS, S3, SQS, Lambda, IAM, Cloud Trail, Cloud Formation) is preferred.
• Demonstrated proficiency with Agile software development principles is preferred.
• Experience with Java Enterprise Applications (e.g. JEE, Spring, etc.) is preferred.
• Experience with Automated Testing, UML, Design Patterns, Object Oriented Design, Behavior Driven Development (BDD) and Test Driven Development (TDD) is preferred.
• Experience designing and deploying microservice solutions using RESTful APIs is preferred.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills. Ability to explain complex technical information to technical and non-technical contacts including executive audiences is preferred.
• Candidates with less experience can be considered for a lower level position
• US Citizenship required

Bring your passion and expertise, and we’ll provide the opportunities that will challenge you and propel your growth—along with a wide range of benefits and perks that support your health, wealth, and life. Salary: $120-170k In addition to competitive compensation, we offer a comprehensive benefits package that all brought together in a flexible work environment where you…