Senior Systems Engineer (Cleared)

Salesforce•Herndon, VA

2d•Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Systems Engineer will work on infrastructure at scale in support of United States National Security customers. This is an on-site role in Herndon, Virginia, five days per week, on a team of software, systems, and security engineers. The team solves infrastructure deployment challenges with software, delivering high-velocity, high-quality infrastructure in specialized cloud environments. The engineer will take ownership of work with autonomy, translate environmental constraints into practical guardrails, and provide service owners with rapid, self-service feedback on service efficacy and security. The role focuses on solving infrastructure problems with code, building compute capacity, automating manual governance processes, and advancing CI/CD pipeline governance in partnership with other teams. The engineer will also evaluate technologies and contribute to the design of test and deploy services. The position requires an active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph. The candidate must be a U.S. citizen (U.S. born or naturalized), hold no dual citizenship, and agree to complete a U.S. federal government Minimum Background Investigation (MBI) for a Moderate Public Trust position.

Requirements

Active Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) clearance with polygraph.
4+ years of Linux engineering experience.
3+ years maintaining, building, or patching highly sensitive customer data and environments.
3+ years deploying with a CI orchestration service such as Jenkins or Spinnaker.
3+ years working within and building on AWS.
2+ years of experience with a scripting or programming language such as Shell, Perl, Python, Ruby, JavaScript, or Go.
2+ years deploying distributed applications with Docker containers and orchestration such as Kubernetes, EKS, or similar.
Must be a U.S. citizen (U.S. born or naturalized), must not hold dual citizenship, and must agree to complete a U.S. federal government MBI for a Moderate Public Trust position.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience.
Experience developing security and compliance into pipelines.
Experience with monitoring tools such as Nagios, Graphite, Datadog, CloudWatch, Prometheus, or Zabbix.

Responsibilities

Take ownership of assigned areas, work autonomously, and proactively drive progress.
Translate environmental constraints into practical guardrails that provide service owners rapid, self-service feedback about service efficacy and security.
Solve infrastructure problems with code and build compute capacity.
Automate manual, people-heavy processes through governance solutions.
Advance CI/CD pipeline governance with partner teams and incorporate feedback to improve efficiency while maintaining service-owner feature velocity, patching, and maintenance.
Collaborate with infrastructure teams across Salesforce.
Evaluate new technologies to solve problems as needed.
Contribute to the design of test and deploy services.