Systems Engineering Lead with TS/SCI clearance

Salesforce, Inc..; Washington, Virginia (District of Columbia, MN); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce, Inc. is seeking a Systems Engineering Lead to work on cutting-edge infrastructure projects in support of US National Security. This customer-facing position in Northern Virginia requires active TS/SCI clearance and offers an opportunity to collaborate with a dynamic team to innovate in database services and manage state-of-the-art solutions. Candidates should possess experience in Linux system engineering, AWS, and container orchestration to elevate the reliability and efficiency of infrastructure solutions.

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph required.
• 2+ years of Linux system engineering experience preferred.
• 1+ years experience with scripting/programming languages.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with internal teams to improve automated CI/CD pipelines.
• Deploy software patches and manage EKS clusters.
• Create and maintain detailed business process documentation.

Skills

Linux system engineering

Scripting/programming

AWS

Container orchestration

Education

BS Degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Jenkins

Job description

Systems Engineering Lead with TS/SCI clearance (on site Northern Virginia)

Multiple levels

*This is a customer-facing role and will require you to be on-site in Northern Virginia. This is NOT a remote position.*

We are looking for an experienced DevOps engineer to join a team of highly motivated software, systems, and security engineers working on infrastructure at scale in support of US National Security customers. Be part of the team that solves infrastructure deployment issues with software, delivers high velocity and high quality infrastructure in specialized public cloud environments, and delivers innovative database services.

PLEASE NOTE: Qualification for this job is contingent upon acceptable results from a background investigation as well as your having and maintaining the specific level of U.S. government background investigation and clearance required for this role.

Overview:

We are seeking engineers at various experience levels to join our dynamic team of software, systems, and security engineers. Our team is dedicated to working on large-scale infrastructure projects in support of U.S. National Security customers. Join us to solve infrastructure deployment challenges with software, deliver high-velocity and high-quality infrastructure in specialized public cloud environments, and innovate in database services.

PLEASE NOTE: Qualification for this job is contingent upon acceptable results from a background investigation as well as your having and maintaining the specific level of U.S. government background investigation and clearance required for this role.

Responsibilities:

1. Demonstrate autonomy and ownership of your areas, proactively driving progress.
2. Collaborate with internal teams to improve automated CI/CD pipelines, maintain production environments, and transform manual processes into automated governance solutions.
3. Deploy software patches for EC2 and EKS-based services, manage EKS clusters, release updates, verify deployments, monitor system performance, and resolve issues.
4. Work with partners from various teams to improve service health, monitoring, and visibility.
5. Understand large-scale production infrastructure with third-party cloud service providers.
6. Enhance CI/CD pipelines based on feedback to improve efficiency and service delivery.
7. Create and maintain detailed business process documentation to enable streamlined operations.

Requirements:

1. Active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph.
2. A related technical degree or equivalent experience.
3. 2+ years of Linux system engineering experience.
4. 1+ years of experience with scripting/programming languages (Shell, Perl, Python, Ruby, JavaScript, Go).
5. 2+ years of experience working with, deploying services on, and building on AWS.
6. 1+ years of experience deploying distributed applications with containers (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes, EKS, GKS).

Desirable:

• BS Degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience.
• Experience integrating security and compliance into pipelines (OPA, Twistlock, Prisma, Casbin).
• Experience with monitoring tools like Nagios, Grafana, Splunk, Graphite, Datadog, Cloudwatch, Prometheus, Zabbix, etc.
• Experience with LSM-Tree/Ledger databases like AWS QLDB or LevelDB, or LSM storage systems like Apache Bookkeeper.
• 3+ years of development experience in configuration management (Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Terraform).
• 6+ years of Linux system engineering experience.
• 3+ years of experience in developing or securing infrastructure and applications for highly sensitive customer data and environments.
• 3+ years of experience deploying with CI orchestration services (Jenkins, Spinnaker).
• 3+ years of experience with scripting/programming languages (Shell, Perl, Python, Ruby, JavaScript, Go).
• 6+ years of experience working within and building on AWS.
• 3+ years of experience deploying distributed applications with containers (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes, EKS, GKS).
• Experience coordinating across service teams, designing guardrails, and providing rapid feedback on service efficacy and security.
• Strong problem-solving skills related to infrastructure, with experience in building compute capacity in fast-paced environments.
• Ability to evaluate new technologies to solve problems and play a forward-thinking role in service design.