Hybrid Senior DevOps Engineer

at Salesforce

• Job title: Senior DevOps Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $157,600 - $216,700 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Ansible, AWS, Cloud, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Python, Spinnaker, TCP/IP, Terraform, Go
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Herndon, United States

About the role

• DevOps Engineer focusing on infrastructure deployment challenges in AI-driven Salesforce. Collaborating with teams to automate CI/CD pipelines and enhance customer adoption.

Responsibilities

• Debug and resolve infrastructure and application failures in Kubernetes and cloud-native environments.
• Collaborate with internal teams for efficient iterations of automated CI/CD pipelines with the goal of maintaining service owner feature velocity, troubleshooting and reproducing issues reported in Production environments.
• Lead the design, development, and distribution of operator tooling, leveraging Salesforce's robust CI/CD infrastructure.
• Collaborate closely with engineers, product managers, and architects to transform manual processes into automated governance solutions. This includes designing, implementing, testing, and delivering new features to enhance customer adoption while maintaining platform stability and scalability.
• Interact with a highly innovative and creative team of developers, open-source committers and architects across Salesforce.
• Research and find the right tools for the job, and if they don't exist create them.

Requirements

• 3+ years working experience with programming and scripting languages such as (Python, Golang and Shell) with a strong preference for Python.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience developing and maintaining DevOps processes - CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure builds using Infrastructure as Code, Production operations and support and Automated testing.
• 3+ years operating production Kubernetes deployments, with a deep understanding of platform concepts and core components.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience building containerized workloads targeting Kubernetes environments.
• 2+ years developing infrastructure and application security for highly sensitive customer data & environments (IAM, PKI, Vulnerability management).
• 2+ years experience with Infrastructure as Code and Configuration Management technologies such as Terraform, Jinja2, Go Templates, Ansible etc.
• 2+ years experience deploying with a CI/CD orchestration services (Jenkins, Spinnaker)
• 1+ Experience running code reviews and mentoring junior developers.
• Experience working within and building cloud native services on AWS with good understanding of tcp/ip networking protocols.
• Experience leading and presenting engineering topics to non-engineering and executive stakeholders.
• Maintain and author system design documentation, diagrams, and related artifacts, and present them and roadmaps to senior leadership.
• Team-player with the ability to work effectively and efficiently with others.
• Be a self-starter and possess a strong sense of self-motivation.
• A related technical degree is required.

Benefits

• time off programs
• medical, dental, vision
• mental health support
• paid parental leave
• life and disability insurance
• 401(k)
• employee stock purchasing program