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

Salesforce, Inc..; Washington, Virginia (District of Columbia, MN); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Systems Engineering Lead to join their Northern Virginia team. This customer-facing role requires an active TS/SCI clearance and involves solving infrastructure deployment issues within a fast-paced environment, enhancing CI/CD pipeline governance, and collaborating across various teams. Ideal candidates will have substantial experience in Linux systems, scripting, and AWS services, contributing to key projects that support US National Security customers.

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI clearance required.
• 3+ years experience with configuration management tools.
• 6+ years Linux system engineering experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead projects in design, development, and post-release support.
• Solve infrastructure problems with code in a fast-paced environment.
• Enhance CI/CD pipeline governance through collaboration.

Skills

DevOps

CI/CD

Infrastructure Security

Automation

Linux

Scripting

AWS

Containers

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Tools

Puppet

Chef

Ansible

Terraform

Jenkins

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS Cloud

Job description

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

*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 provides 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.

Responsibilities:

• Demonstrate a sense of autonomy and ownership of your areas, proactively taking accountability for progress.
• Design practical guardrails based on environmental constraints to enable service owners to receive rapid, self-service feedback about the efficacy and security of their services.
• Solve infrastructure-related problems with code and build compute capacity in a fast-paced environment. Lead key projects in design, development, and post-release support of the Salesforce platform and internal tools supporting our government customers.
• Understand how large-scale production infrastructure works with third-party cloud service providers.
• Transform human-heavy processes into automated governance solutions.
• Improve CI/CD pipeline governance through collaboration with partner teams, iterating for efficiency while maintaining service velocity.
• Enhance influence and collaboration skills by working with various infrastructure teams across Salesforce.
• Interact with a highly innovative team of developers, open-source contributors, and architects.
• Contribute to long-term projects that deliver lasting value.
• Evaluate new technologies to solve problems and play a forward-thinking role in service design, testing, and deployment.

Requirements:

• Active TS/SCI clearance
• Related technical degree or equivalent work experience
• 3+ years development experience with configuration management tools (Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Terraform)
• 6+ years Linux system engineering experience
• 3+ years developing or managing infrastructure and application security for highly sensitive data & environments (IAM, etc.)
• 3+ years deploying with CI orchestration services (Jenkins, Spinnaker)
• 3+ years scripting/programming experience (Shell, Perl, Python, Ruby, JavaScript, Go)
• 6+ years working within and building on AWS
• 3+ years deploying distributed applications with containers (Docker) and orchestration tools (Kubernetes, EKS, GKS)

Desirable:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• Experience integrating security & compliance into pipelines (OPA, Twistlock, Prisma, Casbin)
• Experience with monitoring tools like Nagios, Graphite, Datadog, CloudWatch, Prometheus, Zabbix
• Experience with LSM-Tree/Ledger databases like AWS QLDB, LevelDB, or LSM storage systems like Apache Bookkeeper

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