GovCloud DevOps Engineer – AWS & Kubernetes

Salesforce; New York (NY); On-site; USD 96,300 - 260,100; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking an experienced DevOps engineer to join a team focused on government cloud infrastructure, reliability, and security. You will work on Kubernetes deployments at scale, optimize AWS infra, and drive AI-driven development workflows that produce secure, production-ready software.

The role emphasizes building automated governance, collaborating across internal teams, and contributing to a shared system context.

Qualifications

• Proven expertise in AWS environments, including infra build and optimization.

Responsibilities

• Solve infrastructure problems with code focusing on reusability.
• Lead design, development, and post-release support of the Salesforce platform and tools for government customers.
• Collaborate on automated CI/CD pipelines to maintain feature velocity in Production.
• Build and ship production-grade software with AI as a core part of development workflow.
• Design and orchestrate complex systems where AI agents integrate into human workflows.
• Contribute to maintaining a shared system context with designs, constraints, and standards.
• Critically evaluate code for correctness, quality, security, and performance.
• Demonstrate ownership and autonomy for progress forward.
• Understand large-scale production infrastructure across 3rd party cloud providers.
• Transform manual processes into automated governance solutions.
• Create and maintain detailed documentation.
• Collaborate with Infrastructure teams across Salesforce.
• Research tools and create new ones when needed.

Skills

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

Linux

IAM/CI/CD

Spinnaker/Jenkins

Scripting (Shell/Python/Golang)

Logging/Analytics (Splunk/ELK)

AI-first Engineering

AI Tools (Claude/Copilot)

Prompt Engineering

Communication Skills

On-Call/Monitoring (Nice to have Graf/

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

Spinnaker

Jenkins

Splunk

ELK

Grafana

Prometheus

Job description

Salesforce is seeking an experienced DevOps engineer to join a team focused on government cloud infrastructure, reliability, and security. You will work on Kubernetes deployments at scale, optimize AWS infra, and drive AI-driven development workflows that produce secure, production-ready software.

The role emphasizes building automated governance, collaborating across internal teams, and contributing to a shared system context.