Fannie Mae

Platform Engineer - Java - Atlassian Tools

Posted on: 19 Feb 2021

Reston, VA

Job Description

Company Description

At Fannie Mae, futures are made. The inspiring work we do makes an affordable home a reality and a difference in the lives of Americans. Every day offers compelling opportunities to modernize the nation's housing finance system while being part of an inclusive team using new, emerging technologies. Here, you will help lead our industry forward, enhance your technical expertise, and make your career.

Job Description

As a valued colleague on our team, you will contribute to team's work in assessing, designing, and developing all aspects of a release lifecycle of moderate complexity, including: development and test activities, coordinating release preparation and acceptance of new hardware and software, and collaborating across development expertise domains. You will administer and support Agile framework using Atlassian tools, at a minimum work with Jira, Jira Service Desk, Confluence, and Bitbucket for a large-scale deployment at the enterprise level and work to develop and enable best practices in the tools through configuration, customization, and integration with other systems.

THE IMPACT YOU WILL MAKE
The DevOps 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:

* Advise team and management on process improvements and opportunities for automation.
* Plan and execute defined DevOps and related technical project tasks.
* Manage timely resolution of all critical and/or complex DevOps issues.
* Gather and process inputs from DevOps, engineering, and IT subject matter experts across the release lifecycle.
* Evaluate and support opportunities for alignment between IT operations and the business.
* Administration of planning tools including Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, road mapping and distributed collaboration tools.
* Focus on maximizing stability, reliability, and performance.
* Use AWS development knowledge and experience in automation.
* Must have the ability to develop applications using necessary programming languages. Preferred- Java Technologist, Python, Groovy
* Use knowledge of integration scripting: RESTful APIs and SOAP.

Qualifications

THE EXPERIENCE YOU BRING TO THE TEAM

Minimum Required Experiences

* 2+ years of experience in software engineering
* Experience with Java
* Experience with administration and planning tools (Atlassian preferred)

Desired Experiences

* Bachelor degree or equivalent
* 4-5 years of experience in administration of planning tools (Atlassian tools preferred)
* Working knowledge of GitLab
* Testing knowledge (SIT, UAT, performance)
* Knowledge of Cloud (AWS) and on-prem hosting
* Understanding of Rest APIs and how to build custom APIs while ensuring the system is not compromised
* Experience in Migrating on-premise applications to AWS.
* Experience with infrastructure framework and management

Additional Information

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

Fannie Mae is an Equal Opportunity Employer, which means we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, personal appearance, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation in the application process, email us at careers_mailbox@fanniemae.com.
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Fannie Mae

Washington, DC

Federal National Mortgage Association provides a source of liquidity to the mortgage market and supports the availability and affordability of housing in the United States. It securitizes mortgage loans originated by lenders into Fannie Mae mortgage-backed securities (Fannie Mae MBS). The company operates in two segments, Single-Family and Multifamily. The Single-Family segment securitizes and purchases single-family fixed-rate or adjustable-rate, first-lien mortgage loans, or mortgage-related securities backed by these loans; and loans that are insured by Federal Housing Administration, loans guaranteed by the Department of Veterans Affairs and Rural Development Housing and Community Facilities Program of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, manufactured housing mortgage loans, and other mortgage-related securities. This segment also provides single-family mortgage, as well as credit risk and loss management services.

The Multifamily segment securitizes multifamily mortgage loans into Fannie Mae MBS; purchases multifamily mortgage loans; and provides credit enhancement for bonds issued by state and local housing finance authorities to finance multifamily housing. This segment also issues structured MBS backed by Fannie Mae multifamily MBS; buys and sells multifamily agency mortgage-backed securities; and offers delegated underwriting and servicing, as well as multifamily mortgage, and credit risk and loss management services. The company serves mortgage banking companies, savings and loan associations, savings banks, commercial banks, credit unions, community banks, specialty servicers, insurance companies, and state and local housing finance agencies. Federal National Mortgage Association was founded in 1938 and is headquartered in Washington, the District of Columbia.