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Fednow Principal Site Reliability Engineer

The Federal Reserve System

Salary not specified
Sep 26, 2025
Boston, MA, USA • San Francisco, CA, USA • Cleveland, OH, USA • Dallas, TX, USA • Philadelphia, PA, USA • Richmond, VA, USA • Chicago, IL, USA • St. Louis, MO, USA • Kansas City, MO, USA • Minneapolis, MN, USA • Atlanta, GA, USA
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The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston is transforming its Federal Reserve Financial Services (FRFS) into a national, enterprise-focused organization to meet marketplace needs for new products and services more quickly, provide a more robust and unified customer experience, and create new career growth opportunities. This involves operating and supporting the new FedNow Service, a mission-critical initiative transforming the payments landscape in the United States.

Requirements

  • Extensive knowledge and understanding of working in AWS environments & services
  • EC2, EBS, EKS, RDS, Aurora, S3, Route 53, ELB, IAM, etc.
  • Hashicorp Terraform, Consul, Vault, and Ansible
  • Automation experience preferably using GitLab
  • Experience with scripting languages preferably Python for automated processes
  • Experience working in Linux environment and shell scripting
  • Experience working with Docker, Containers, ECR and EKS.

Responsibilities

  • As a Principal Engineer of the SRE / Production Operations team for FedNow, you will operate the production environment for the program.
  • You will architect, implement, and leverage solution monitoring and tooling to be used for capacity planning, utilization reporting, and scaling.
  • CI/CD and IaCPipeline automation design and development.
  • Resiliency, DR and BCP (including testing)
  • It owns ongoing ITIL processes, and the implementation and driving of continuous improvement initiatives.
  • You will work closely with Engineers and Architects of the FedNow program in order tomaintain seamless automation across the entire platform.
  • Proactively identify suspected gaps in system architecture and design experiments to expose them

Other

  • Strong communication and collaboration skills
  • All employees assigned to this position will be subject to FBI fingerprint/ criminal background and Patriot Act/ Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) watch list checks at least once every five years.
  • For this job, any offer of employment is contingent upon successfully passing a two-phase security screening.
  • The first phase consists of the satisfactory completion of a physical examination (including a drug screening), reference checks, and a security investigation consisting of credit and criminal history checks.
  • The second phase, which might not be complete until after you begin working at the Reserve Bank, is an additional risk-based security screening determined by the risk rating of the position.