Senior Platform Engineer - Cloud Migrations & IaC

City and County of San Francisco; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 156,000 - 196,000; Full time

Job summary

The San Francisco Department of Technology (DT) seeks a Platform Engineer to lead cloud migration and modernization as part of Cloud 2030. You will write Terraform, build CI/CD pipelines, and guide multi-cloud deployments across city workloads.

Ideal candidates have 3+ years in enterprise networking, an associate degree or equivalent, and experience with Oracle/SQL Server/PostgreSQL databases. Hybrid work supports city needs.

Qualifications

• Education as stated: associate degree or equivalent with required credits.
• Three years of enterprise network experience.
• Degree substitution allowed per policy (years of experience in lieu).
• Completion of the 1010 Information Systems Trainee Program may substitute for the degree.
• Meet minimum requirements by the final filing date.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement multi-cloud infrastructure using Terraform/OpenTofu.
• Build and maintain GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines for infra and apps.
• Lead end-to-end cloud migrations including network, compute provisioning, and DB migrations.
• Modernize legacy applications for cloud deployment (containerization, CI/CD enablement).
• Develop custom applications, automation tools, and internal platform services.
• Perform database migrations across Oracle, SQL Server, and PostgreSQL with HA.
• Implement CJIS and HIPAA as infrastructure-as-code.
• Mentor junior engineers on cloud architecture and modern development practices.

Skills

Terraform

OpenTofu

GitHub Actions

CI/CD

Cloud migrations

Education

Associate degree in computer science / computer engineering / information systems or equivalent

Tools

Terraform/OpenTofu

GitHub Actions

Oracle

SQL Server

PostgreSQL

Cloud platforms (multi-cloud)

Job description

The San Francisco Department of Technology (DT) seeks a Platform Engineer to lead cloud migration and modernization as part of Cloud 2030. You will write Terraform, build CI/CD pipelines, and guide multi-cloud deployments across city workloads.

Ideal candidates have 3+ years in enterprise networking, an associate degree or equivalent, and experience with Oracle/SQL Server/PostgreSQL databases. Hybrid work supports city needs.