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CompanyFederal Reserve Bank of ClevelandThe Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland's mission is to foster the stability, integrity, and efficiency of the nation's monetary, financial, and payment systems while representing the Fourth District perspectives.
As part of the nation's central bank, we are a team of mission-driven professionals who are committed to serving with excellence. Our core values are: Build Trust Every Day, Own Our Actions, Collaborate with Intention, and Be Open to Change.
For twenty-six years in a row, we've been named "One of Northeast Ohio's Best Places to Work" by North Coast 99. This prestigious award honors organizations with outstanding employment practices, including compensation, benefits, training, recruitment, retention, community services, and employee communications.
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To be considered for this role, candidates must be a U.S. citizen.

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior DevOps Engineer to join our enterprise shared service team. In this role, you will be responsible for providing advanced DevOps tooling and solutions to support the development, operations, and business users across the enterprise. You will work closely with cross-functional teams in the system to streamline processes, enhance automation, and ensure the reliability and scalability of our infrastructure and services. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in DevOps practices, cloud technologies, and a passion for continuous improvement.

Essential Accountabilities:

• Design, implement, and maintain DevOps tooling, infrastructure, and pipelines to support CI/CD processes.
• Collaborate with development, operations, and business teams to identify and resolve infrastructure and service issues.
• Automate routine tasks and processes to improve efficiency and reduce manual intervention.
• Monitor and optimize the performance of DevOps tools and infrastructure.
• Develop and support AI solutions to improve developer productivity.
• Provide guidance and mentorship to junior team members and other stakeholders on DevOps best practices.
• Contribute to the development of standards, policies, and procedures for DevOps within the enterprise.
• Work with business users to understand their needs and provide solutions that align with business objectives.
• Ability to solve highly complex issue or create highly complex solutions independently.
• Ensure the security and compliance of DevOps tools and processes.
• Participate in on-call rotations to provide support for critical incidents and issues.
• Stay current with industry trends and emerging technologies to continuously improve our DevOps practices.

Education and Experience:

DevOps Engineer:

• Associates degree and 5 years of related work experience OR

• Bachelor's degree and 3 years of related work experience OR

• Master's degree and 0-1 year of related work experience

Senior DevOps Engineer:

• Associate's degree and 7 years of related work experience OR
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field and 5 years of related work experience OR
• Master's degree and 3 years of related work experience

Knowledge and Skills Areas:

• Proven track record of successfully implementing and managing DevOps practices in a large-scale enterprise environment.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Profound understanding of DevOps principles and practice
• Extensive experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., GitLab).
• Strong proficiency in configuration management tools and practices.
• Deep knowledge of containerization and orchestration platforms (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Expertise in AWS cloud platforms.
• Familiarity with AI models (e.g., Anthropic Claude, OpenAI GPT) and associated harnesses (e.g., Claude Code, Codex).
• Solid understanding of infrastructure as code (IaC) tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, OpenSearch).
• Familiarity with scripting languages (e.g., Python, Go).
• Knowledge of software development methodologies (e.g., Agile, Scrum).
• Atlassian suite experience is a plus.
• Understanding of security practices and compliance requirements in a DevOps environment.

Location: Cleveland, OH, Columbus, OH, Cincinnati, OH, or Pittsburgh, PA

The expected starting salary range for the DevOps Engineer is between $90,500 and $113,100 and the Senior DevOps Engineer is between $111,400 and $139,200 annually. Final salary and offer will be determined by the applicant's background, experience, skills, internal equity, and market data.

The Cleveland Fed offers benefits to support overall health and financial security. Learn more about our benefits here: https://www.clevelandfed.org/careers

Physical Demands and General Working Conditions

This is not necessarily an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, standards or requirements, efforts, skills or working conditions associated with the job. While this is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current job, the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland reserves the right to revise this or any job description at any time.

Reasonable Accommodation Statement -The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland is committed to ensuring that individuals with disabilities are provided with reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. To request a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please send an email toclev.4d.benefits.specialist@clev.frb.org.

Bank's Ethics Rules and Drug Testing:

As a condition of employment, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland employees must comply with the Bank's ethics rules which generally prohibit employees, their spouses/domestic partners, and minor children from owning or controlling, directly or indirectly, any debt or equity interest in a depository institution or an affiliate of a depository institution. A "depository institution" means a bank, a trust company, or any institution that accepts deposits, including a bank chartered under the laws of a foreign country. In addition, employees (and their spouses/domestic partners, and minor children) may not own shares of mutual funds, unit investment trusts or ETFs that have a policy, as stated in the prospectus, of concentrating in the financial services industry and that have underlying investments in banks or other depository institutions. If you or your spouse/domestic partner or minor child own such securities and would not be willing or able to divest them if you accepted an offer of Bank employment, you should raise this issue with the recruiter for this posting.

In addition, as a condition of employment, candidates must undergo a background check and will be tested for all controlled substances prohibited by federal law, to include marijuana, prior to hire and for certain safety sensitive positions during employment.

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