DevOps Engineer, GovCloud Mid/Senior

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Applications for this position will be accepted on an ongoing basis.

Must be a U.S. Citizen operating on U.S. Soil with ability to meet customer and government screening standards applicable to this role, including a Criminal Justice Information Services screening with fingerprint scan. Due to the citizenship requirement for this role, which supports U.S. federal, state, and/or local government customers, citizenship will be verified through two of the following REAL ID Act documents: U.S. Passport, Passport Card, REAL Driver's License, Global Entry Card, U.S. Government CAC/PIV.

We are looking for an experienced DevOps engineer to join a team of highly skilled Systems, Site Reliability, and DevOps Engineers working on service availability and performance. Our goal is a simple one: ensure maximum availability of Salesforce’s Government Cloud infrastructure through proactive enhancements, adept troubleshooting and ensuring security compliance. If you have a passion for problem solving, quickly diagnosing root causes and ensuring the resiliency of production systems, this role is for you!

In this role:

• You are strong in solving Infrastructure related problems with code (with a focus on reusability) and you've mastered building compute capacity, worked on Kubernetes deployments at scale. You will be responsible for leading key projects in design, development, and post-release support of the Salesforce platform and tools that are used by a variety of internal teams to support our government customers.
• Collaborating with internal teams for efficient iterations of automated CI/CD pipelines with the goal of maintaining service owner feature velocity, solving and reproducing issues reported in Production environments.
• You’ll demonstrate a sense of autonomy and vitality for ownership of your areas and proactively take accountability for progress forward.
• You will get a chance to understand how things work with a large-scale production infrastructure within 3rd party cloud service providers.
• You will transform human heavy processes into automated governance solutions.
• Create and maintain detailed documentation.
• You will get a chance to improve your influence and collaboration skills working with various other Infrastructure teams across Salesforce.
• You will be interacting with a highly innovative and creative team of developers, open-source committers and architects.
• Researching and finding the right tools for the job, and if they don't exist creating them.

Requirements:

• A related 4-year technical degree required
• 3+ years deploying distributed apps with containers (Docker) & orchestration (Kubernetes, EKS, GKE)
• 3+ years development experience in config management (Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Terraform)
• 4+ years demonstrated ability working within and building on AWS
• 4+ years Linux system engineering experience
• 2+ years developing or infrastructure and application security for Highly Sensitive Customer Data & Environments (IAM, CI/CD, PKI)
• 3+ years experience deploying with a CI orchestration service (Jenkins, Spinnaker)
• 2+ years working experience scripting/programming language (Shell, Python, Golang, Ruby)
• Experience with TCP/IP networking protocols and components as implemented in IAAS (i.e. VPC, TGW, route tables, security groups, etc.)
• Experience with Log Management and Analytics tools such as Splunk / ELK
• A continuous learner and a critical thinker.
• A teammate with great communication skills both verbal and written.

Nice to Haves:

• BS Degree in Computer Science or Technical Field
• Experience developing security & compliance into pipelines (OPA, Checkov, Twistlock, Prisma, Casbin)
• Experience in any of the monitoring tools like Nagios, Graphite, Datadog, Cloudwatch, Prometheus, Zabbix etc.,
• Experience in leading large scale web applications in production

This candidate must be a U.S. citizen (U.S. born or naturalized) who does not hold dual citizenship and agrees to complete a U.S. federal government Minimum Background Investigation (MBI) for a Moderate Public Trust position.

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The typical base salary range for this position is $148,500 - $260,100 annually. In select cities within the San Francisco and New York City metropolitan area, the base salary range for this role is $178,900 - $285,800 annually.

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