Systems Engineer

Job title:- Systems Engineer
Location:- Kansas City, MO 64198
Duration:-  12 Months
 
Qualifications:
Basic Qualifications:

• Ansible Tower
• GitLab
• Python
• OpenShift and/or Kubernetes
• Unix/Linux
• Shell scripting
• Identity and Access Management Systems (IAM)
• Experience with RESTful API’s
• Argo CD
• Agile

 
Preferred Qualifications:
Knowledge of modern authentication and authorization protocols including:

• OAuth 2.0
• Open ID Connect (OIDC)
• Federation (SAML 2.0)
• System for Cross-domain Identity Management (SCIM)
• Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
• Experience with IBM Security products
• SQL
• JavaScript
• ServiceNow
• PKI Experience
• RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
• Ansible Automation Hub and Ansible Galaxy
• Nexus

 
Other/Additional Requirements:

• Working Conditions: Will require the use of standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, etc.
• Physical Demands: Requires some degree of sitting (for prolonged periods of time), standing, lifting carrying, pushing, pulling less than 20 lbs.

• Hours of Work: May require extended work hours. Occasional travel including overnight stays may be necessary.

 
Education/Experience:

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience/Master's Degree may be preferred or with 5+ years of relevant work experience.

 
Responsibilities:

• The mission of the Client System is to foster the stability, integrity, and efficiency of the nation’s monetary, financial, and payments systems to promote optimal economic performance.
• Within this broad context the vital mission of the National IT Services is to deliver superior value to our customers through world-class IT services and solutions that are responsive to business needs, adaptive to change, and essential to the mission of the Federal Reserve System.

 
Job Summary:

• Access gateway Engineer uses technology to improve, streamline and automate information technology systems and services.
• The eBusiness Security Access Gateway team is seeking an automation engineer to join a team of security engineers to create and improve Infrastructure and Configuration as Code (IaC and CaC).
• The Access gateway Engineer will collaborate with the eBusiness engineering team to understand secure Authentication, Authorization, Web Gateway, and API services to reduce manual processes, build CI/CD pipelines, and reduce overall time to market.

 
Position Requirements:

• An automation engineer is needed to assist with further development of automated deployments inclusive of IBM Security Products.
• This position would assist in design and developing the code required to build and maintain Access Management Services.
• This will allow the enhancement of and development of stronger automation processes, including full CI/CD pipelines, around the various Access Gateway environments, leading to less manual execution of scripts.
• Further automation will allow administrators to focus on code rather than procedures.
• Long term this will improve Change Management (CM) practices by ensuring all changes are captured in source control.
• This will enable automated rebuilds rehydrating environments and rapid recovery from ransomware or other critical incidents.
• The position will be responsible for improving existing processes and creating new automated health checks.
• Further efforts will reduce time spent by administrators doing manual tasks, reducing errors, integration with CM, integrate system monitoring for auto incident creation, self-healing based on environmental health, and streamlining work intake requests by integrating with Service Now.
• Future development efforts will enable “no touch deployment” to further reduce time to market.
• Other duties will include knowledge sharing and continuously seeking improvement opportunities.