Freddie Mac · 1 day ago
DevOps Engineer, Senior
McLean, VA
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$127K/yr - $191K/yr
5+ years expFreddie Mac is an organization that focuses on making home possible for families across the country. They are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to lead continuous improvement of operations, operational automation, and high availability for tools, while collaborating with various teams to ensure high-quality product development and deployment.
FinanceFinancial ServicesRisk Management
Responsibilities
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
Design, develop and test innovative and automation solutions in the areas of data engineering including technology implementations using Agile construct
Has experience working with partners and teammates to solidify solution design, contribute to design working sessions, and outline solution path for new capability development
Supporting DevOps pipeline offerings for deployment of microservices into EKS and OpenShift cluster ecosystems for mid to large sized enterprise environments
Support applications, including providing fixes to production defects and making enhancements
Has experience within the Kubernetes platform and has familiarity with Continuous Deployment tools such as Spinnaker and Helm for deployment of workloads, and has understanding of service communication technologies such as Istio
Experience in source code management, repository management and package management with tools such as; JFrog Artifactory, Bitbucket, and Helm for Kubernetes Package management
Has proven ability to collaborate with partner teams and peer to support technology implementation and solution delivery in ecosystems using; AWS, Elastisearch, Logstache, Kibana, Open Policy Agent (OPA), Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA), Docker & containerized workloads, Service Mesh tools, Information Security tools such as HashiCorp Vault and CyberArk for Credentials Management
Understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) practices, familiar in building CI/CD pipelines and practicing Test Driven Development (TDD) for writing test case scenarios for automated testing
Possesses eagerness to explore new technologies to innovate, solve problems, perform proof-of-concepts, & conduct exploratory research
Has experience working with cross-functional teams to deliver features and products; for delivery of capabilities to large user populations
Provide level of effort required for development and testing of software components
Quickly learn new and legacy technologies and paradigms to deploy cutting edge solutions
Quickly evaluate defects, investigate causes and come up with solutions to address defects
Write automated test scripts and test code written by peer developers
Provide production support and providing clear communication on the resolution of incidents
Independently collaborate with upstream/downstream and IT support teams to lead conversations, implement solutions and resolve issues
Qualification
Required
Bachelors or advanced degree or directly relevant professional experience
5+ years of experience in delivering solutions using Software Development Life Cycle
5+ years' experience in developing Data Engineering solutions
5+ years' experience working with complex SQL queries and Unix environment
Proven hands-on experience Groovy scripting
Experience with Docker containerization
Exposure handling deployments
Knowledge and experience working with AWS (EKS)
Strong writing skills. Detail driven with respect to documentation
Desire to expand knowledge & skillset in cloud based technologies & patterns
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
Preferred
advanced studies/degree preferred
Knowledge and experience working with Python and Java
Benefits
Competitive compensation
Market-leading benefit programs
Eligible to participate in the annual incentive program
Company
Freddie Mac
Freddie Mac is a public government-sponsored enterprise that provides mortgage capital to lenders.
5001-10000 employees
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Funding
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$3.58BKey Investors
DLP Capital
2025-12-30Post Ipo Debt· $108.4M
2025-10-28Post Ipo Debt· $343.2M
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Leadership Team
Dennis G. Hermonstyne
Senior Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer
Peter Lillestolen
Vice President - MF Production and Sales, Targeted Affordable Housing
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