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IT Spec (ENTARCH) "Platform/site Reliability Engineer", GS-2210-14 FPL GS-14 (DH)
Federal Student Aid · Posted 57 days ago
Hybrid San Francisco, CA $128K – $197K Apply by Jul 24, 2026 Information Technology Management INTJISTJ Engineering
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This position is in the U.S. Department of Education (ED), Federal Student Aid (FSA), Technology Directorate (TD). The Technology Directorate provides information technology services for all FSA systems, promoting the effective and secure use of technology to achieve FSA's strategic objectives through sound planning, investments, integrated technology architectures and standards, effective systems development, production support, and cybersecurity services.
What You'll Do
- →APPLICATION LIMIT: This vacancy announcement is limited to the first 250 applications received and will close at 11:59PM Eastern Time on the day that we receive the 250th application, or at 11:59PM Eastern Time on the listed closing date, whichever occurs first.
- →This position is eligible for Remote/Virtual work.
- →Actual salary will be based on location of selectee.
- →Locality pay tables available at www.opm.gov .
- →We encourage you to read this entire vacancy announcement prior to submitting your application.
- →As a Platform/Site Reliability Engineer, you will lead the design, development, and evolution of the cloud platforms, automation, and reliability systems that power FSA's applications.
- →You will develop infrastructure, tooling, and observability capabilities that enable teams to deliver secure, reliable, and high-performing services at scale.
- →You'll collaborate with cross-functional partners to standardize cloud architectures, improve system reliability, and modernize FSA into a platform-driven, engineering-centric organization.
- →This role blends the mission of public service with the complexity of major commercial cloud and SRE organizations.
- →Your job is to lead the creation of the platforms, guardrails, and reliability practices that let teams ship changes safely and confidently.
- →If you enjoy designing scalable infrastructure, optimizing system reliability, and enabling engineers to move faster, this is the role.
- →Provide input to design and technical documentation, review final deliverables, and ensure adherence to the enterprise network operations engineering framework through leadership, while serving as a principal-level expert in platform engineering, cloud architecture, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices, and infrastructure automation.
- →Engage with technology leaders, business partners, and contractors to ensure operational requirements and needs are met, while clearly communicating technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and producing platform standards, design documents, and technical evaluations.
- →Evaluate system security plans and procedures, manage and direct office support contractors, address IT compliance issues, and oversee project planning and updates, while designing and maintaining continuous improvement/continuous Development (CI/CD) pipelines to support automated testing, deployment, change control, and compliance validation.
Requirements
- ✓Condition of Employment: As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you may be required to serve a probationary period or trial period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓In determining if your employment advances the public interest, we may consider: Your performance and conduct; The needs and interests of the agency; Whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and Whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.
- ✓Upon completion of your probationary period OR trial period your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓You must meet all qualification requirements within 30 days of the closing date of this vacancy announcement.
- ✓Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social).
- ✓Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills, and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment.
- ✓We will consider all qualifying experience, including any volunteer experience.
- ✓Education cannot be substituted for experience for this position and grade level.
- ✓Foreign Education: Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet education requirements if you can show that the foreign education is comparable to that received in an accredited educational institution in the United States.
- ✓It is your responsibility to provide such evidence when applying.
- ✓If you are using foreign education to meet qualification requirements, you must submit a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education.
- ✓For further information, please click Foreign Education.
- ✓Education cannot be substituted for experience for this position and grade level.
- ✓Must be a US Citizen.
Benefits
- ★As an ED employee, you will also benefit from our family-friendly work environment.
- ★As part of our commitment to maintain a work life balance, we offer excused leave for Parent/Teacher Conferences (3 hours); excused leave for annual health screenings (4 hours); and matching leave for community volunteer service.
- ★Other flexibilities that may be available to you include alternative work schedules.
- ★You may be eligible to receive a recruitment incentive for this position.
- ★To receive this incentive payment, you will be required to sign a service agreement obligating you to remain with the U.S.
- ★Department of Education for a specified period as agreed upon.
- ★You may be eligible to receive a relocation incentive for this position.
- ★To receive this incentive payment, you will be required to sign a service agreement obligating you to remain with the U.S.
- ★Department of Education for a specified period as agreed upon.
- ★You may be eligible to participate in the Student Loan Repayment Program as a recruitment incentive for this position.
Personality Fit
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