Position Overview:

Are you looking for an opportunity to join our fast paced and passionate team that supports multiple IT applications built on various technologies with continuous modernization in progress.We are Modern Delivery Tool Chain (MDTC) accountable to lead continuous improvement of operations, operational automation, and high availability for tools.

Our Impact:

• We build and enhance software applications required for mandatory reporting of Freddie Mac’s mortgage loan data to Federal Housing Finance Agency.
• Partner with Product and Business team members to ensure high quality product is developed and released into production.
• Work closely with Architecture, Stakeholders, Operations Partners, and Business Product teams to specify and refine solutions and practices.
• Evolve a DevOps culture to provide high quality, continuous operations, and ongoing support ensuring critical service level metrics, customer requirements and financial objectives.
• Driver for modernization of Freddie Mac’s 5000+ customers to release small incremental changes to production at 5x pace.

Your Impact:

• Build to sustainability/DevOps engineering functions that is responsible for platform availability, scale, and performance.
• Build tools to lead through automation and proactive/predictive alerts by having a strong data analytical tool set to identify areas of improvement.
• Build to improve the systems health such as  self healing, resiliency, continuous feedback.
• Lead to instrument APM in prod and non-prod with dashboards including but not limited to key performance indicators, alters with thresholds and tolerances, user patterns & usages etc.
• Implement comprehensive service monitoring to ensure uptime and performance, including but not limited to synthetic transactions, real users, system, application performance, dashboards etc.
• Define, measure, and meet key service level objectives including availability, performance, incidents, and chronic problems.
• Ensure robust capacity planning models are defined for key platforms and regularly measure customer site performance and capacity and ensuring that there is no downtime due to capacity.
• Own end-to-end availability and performance of critical platform services and build automation to prevent problem recurrence; eventually automate response to all non-exceptional service conditions.
• Experienced in coding, scripting, and automating with languages including Groovy, Ansible, Selenium, Vgen and shell scripting experience, for automation of routine operations and tasks within the enterprise environment.
• Proficient in CI/CD pipeline development with use of Jenkins and Spinnaker tools; to support microservice deployments into Amazon EKS and/or OpenShift Console environments.
• Experienced with code quality, code coverage, security scan (SAST/DAST) scanning tools such as; Fortify, Checkmarx, SonarQube.
• Experience with code and release management tools (e.g. Git, Bitbucket, CI/CD, Helm, Spinnaker, Jenkins, Jira)
• Lead technical teams with a focus on productivity, cost optimization on infrastructure and efficiency.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors or advanced degree or directly relevant professional experience
• 8+ years of experience in delivering solutions using Software Development Life Cycle
• 5+ years’ experience working with complex SQL queries, AWS and Unix environments.
• Proven experience with operational and organizational management, team leadership, and enterprise-wide technology strategy
• Possess good interpersonal and collaboration skills with strong communication skills at levels ranging from senior leadership to product team members.
• Knowledge and experience working with AWS, Python and Java
• Strong writing skills. Detail driven with respect to documentation.
• Desire to expand knowledge & skillset in cloud-based technologies & patterns

Keys to Success in this Role:

• Takes accountability, sets expectations, and delivers high quality technical solutions within agreed upon level of effort.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to quickly comprehend the functions and capabilities of new technologies.
• Derive excitement and thrive in a fast-paced and constantly evolving culture.
• Outstanding interpersonal, technical, and organizational skills.
• Passion for driving value to customers and excitement for modern digital processes (Agile) and deliver.

Current Freddie Mac employees please apply through the internal career site.

Today, Freddie Mac makes home possible for one in four home borrowers and is one of the largest sources of financing for multifamily housing. Join our smart, creative and dedicated team and you’ll do important work for the housing finance system and make a difference in the lives of others.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We will ensure that individuals with differing abilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

CA Applicants:  Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

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Time-type:Full time

FLSA Status:Exempt

Freddie Mac offers a comprehensive total rewards package to include competitive compensation and market-leading benefit programs. Information on these benefit programs is available on our Careers site.

This position has an annualized market-based salary range of $154,000 - $230,000 and is eligible to participate in the annual incentive program. The final salary offered will generally fall within this range and is dependent on various factors including but not limited to the responsibilities of the position, experience, skill set, internal pay equity and other relevant qualifications of the applicant.