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Fannie Mae

Advisor-Cloud & Observability Engineer

Today• Reston, VA
(+1 more)
  • Plano, TX

About us

At Fannie Mae, futures are made. Here, you will help lead our industry forward and make your career.

★ 3.9 out of 5 · 14 reviews

  • Size: 5,001-10,000 employees
  • Industry: Finance: Personal & Commercial Banking
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Why you should apply for a job to Fannie Mae:

  • 3.9/5 in overall job satisfaction
  • 3.9/5 in supportive management
  • 79% say women are treated fairly and equally to men
  • 71% would recommend this company to other women
  • 85% say the CEO supports gender diversity

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Playing an essential role in the U.S. economy, Fannie Mae is foundational to housing finance. Here, your expertise can help fuel purpose-driven innovation that expands access to homeownership and affordable rental housing across the country. Join Fannie Mae to grow your career and help people find a place to call home.

Job Description

As a valued contributor to our team, you will advise team members on the design and processes for implementation of components of technological structures. In this role, you will create solutions with a process-driven view, as well as devise processes for maintaining and/or updating existing structures.
IMPACT YOU WILL MAKE

The Advisor-Cloud & Observability Engineer role will offer you the flexibility to make each day your own, while working alongside people who care so that you can deliver on the following responsibilities:

  • Provide architectural leadership and technical guidance for enterprise platforms and cloud-native solutions, with a strong emphasis on AWS.
  • Define and promote architecture patterns and standards for observability across applications, platforms, and infrastructure.
  • Partner with engineering teams to incorporate observability into solution designs, including metrics, logs, distributed tracing, dashboards, alerting, and service health monitoring.
  • Provide architectural guidance for the adoption and implementation of industry standards such as OpenTelemetry (OTel) for telemetry collection and distributed tracing.
  • Evaluate existing technology architectures and identify opportunities to improve reliability, scalability, operational visibility, and supportability.
  • Translate business and functional requirements into scalable technical architectures while balancing performance, resiliency, security, cost, and operational considerations.
  • Collaborate with application, platform, cloud, security, and operations teams to define reusable architecture patterns and governance processes.
  • Assess emerging technologies and industry practices related to cloud architecture, observability, telemetry, and application performance monitoring.
  • Develop architecture documentation, reference architectures, technical standards, and recommendations to guide implementation teams.
  • Influence technical direction across multiple teams by communicating architectural decisions, trade-offs, and recommendations to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Minimum Required Experiences

  • 6 years of experience in technology, software engineering, cloud engineering, platform engineering, or solution/enterprise architecture.
  • Experience designing or supporting solutions in cloud environments, with significant exposure to Amazon Web Services (AWS).
  • Experience developing architecture patterns and providing technical guidance across multiple engineering teams.
  • Working knowledge of modern observability concepts, including metrics, logging, distributed tracing, dashboards, alerting, and telemetry.
  • Familiarity with OpenTelemetry (OTel) and distributed tracing concepts.
  • Experience designing or evaluating distributed, cloud-native, microservices, or event-driven architectures.
  • Strong understanding of application resiliency, scalability, performance, availability, and operational support considerations.
  • Ability to communicate complex technical concepts and architecture decisions to engineering teams, technology leaders, and business stakeholders.

Qualifications
Active Directory (AD), Active Directory (AD), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Atlassian JIRA, Authentication Management, Backup and Recovery (Software), Business Insight Skills, Business Process Management Skills, Calendar and Scheduling Tools, Cleaning and Transforming Data, Cloud Technology, Collaborating Cross-Functionally, Communicating in Technical Writing, Communicating Technical Information, Communication, Configuration Management (CM), Conflict Resolution, Coordination, Customer and Market Insights, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), CyberArk, Cybersecurity Analysis, Data Analysis, Data Analysis Interpretation {+ 60 more}

Education:
Bachelor's Level Degree (Required)

The future is what you make it to be. Discover compelling opportunities at Fanniemae.com/careers.

For most roles, employees are expected to work onsite on a regular basis at their designated office location. In-office work cadence is determined by your manager. Proximity within a reasonable commute to your designated office location is preferred unless the job is noted as open to remote.

Fannie Mae is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity/gender expression, marital or parental status, or any other protected factor. Fannie Mae is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities who are employees or applicants for employment, unless to do so would cause undue hardship to the company. If you need assistance using our online system and/or you need a reasonable accommodation related to the hiring/application process, please complete this form.

The hiring range for this role is set forth below. Final salaries will generally vary within that range based on factors that include but are not limited to, skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and other relevant qualifications. This position is eligible to participate in a Fannie Mae incentive program (subject to the terms of the program). As part of our comprehensive benefits package, Fannie Mae offers a broad range of Health, Life, Voluntary Lifestyle, and other benefits and perks that enhance an employee's physical, mental, emotional, and financial well-being. See more here.

Requisition compensation:
155000
to
209000

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Additional Information

  • Salary: $155,000
  • Posted: today
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