Company Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond

The Richmond Fed is the proud home of the Federal Reserve's National IT organization-a nationwide team delivering technology solutions and support across the Federal Reserve System. Many National IT employees are located in Richmond, while others are based across the U.S. at other Federal locations.

When you join our team, you'll become part of a culture that welcomes differences, cares about our communities, and empowers each other to lead from where we are to make things better.

Bring your passion and we'll provide challenging and purposeful careers in a variety of fields, opportunities to grow and a wide range of benefits and perks that support your health and wealth. It's all part of what makes #MyRichmondFed a great place to work!

About the Opportunity

The Currency & Automation team has an immediate opening for an Senior Network Engineer.

This position will leverage your Cisco expertise as it relates to both hardware and software SDLC lifecycles, maintenance, and support, with an emphasis on Cisco based Nexus platforms. In this role, your skills with automating processes and configuration management will serve to enhance the department's goal for achieving faster to market software versions, automation of key processes tied to currency lifecycle, and developing automation in support of configuration management based on most requested network changes and needs within Operations and Network Engineering departments. You expertise with Cisco hardware platforms covering Catalyst and Nexus for the Core, Distribution, and Access layers will be heavily relied upon for assisting with product selection and yearly capital budget planning to ensure all platforms are current and supported by the vendor.

What You Will Do:

• Provide Cisco Nexus Hardware and Software selection, request bug scrubs, perform bug scrub analysis, and complete certification testing within the FRB's controlled lab environment.
• Maintain approved hardware platforms and software versioning lists.
• Automate maintenance reconciliation efforts across various vendors and associated platforms. Leverage C3, Python, Perl, GITLAB, and Cisco pyATS for automation efforts.
• Performs resolution of moderately complex hardware and problems affecting application systems.
• Designs, codes, tests, debugs, documents, installs, and maintains moderately complex software/hardware enhancements to support current release levels.
• Performs change and problem management using standard tools following FRIT change management policies and procedures for software/hardware propagation to other platforms and/or environments. Ensures conformance with existing system capability.
• Participates in evaluating design strategies. Identifies potential design problems and makes recommendations for improvements.
• Utilizes available tools for automation of manual processes.
• Interprets technical standards to apply programming and design techniques.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in IT and/or a minimum of 10+ years supporting very large Cisco networks with an emphasis on Nexus based platforms and performing new software or hardware certification testing. Emphasis with performing bug scrub analysis on potential software upgrades is required and based on functions and features deployed within the various FRB supported network environments. Will be a key supportive member within the Currency team where your expertise will be relied upon to ensure all environments are maintained from a currency software and hardware lifecycle.
• Proven track record with automating and scripting repeatable tasks associated with manual processes and configuration management with Cisco and/or other vendors such as Juniper, Palo Alto, Pulse Secure, F5 BigIP.
• Agile experience with Kanban or JIRA. A strong desire to embrace and champion using Agile within the Currency and Automation department.

Discover the Reason Why So Many People Love It Here!

When you join Federal Reserve's National IT organization, not only will you find a challenging and purposeful career, you'll also have access to a wide range of benefits and perks that support your health and wealth, including:

• Great medical benefits
• Pension and 401(k) with employer match
• Paid time off

Other Requirements and Considerations:

• Candidates should review the Bank's Employee Code of Conduct to ensure compliance with conflict of interest rules and personal investment restrictions. The Code is available on the About Us, Careers webpage at www.richmondfed.org .
• Sponsorship is not available for this role. The selected candidate will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information. Eligibility for this specific position requires U.S. Citizenship or three or more years of Permanent Resident (Green Card) status.
• Salary offered will be based on the job responsibilities and the individual's knowledge, skills, and experience as defined in the job qualifications/experience.
• Tuition reimbursement
• Employee resource networks
• Paid volunteer leave
• Flexible work options
• Onsite amenities that make working here fun

Full Time / Part Time Full time

Regular / Temporary Regular

Job Exempt (Yes / No) Yes

Job Category Information Technology

Work Shift First (United States of America)

The Federal Reserve Banks believe that diversity and inclusion among our employees is critical to our success as an organization, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. The Federal Reserve Banks are committed to equal employment opportunity for employees and job applicants in compliance with applicable law and to an environment where employees are valued for their differences.

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