Salesforce

DevOps Engineer, GovCloud Mid/Senior

Salesforce$116K — $285K *
Education, Government & Non-Profit
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in DevOps engineering or related fields
  • Proficiency in AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/Ansible)
  • Strong scripting skills in Shell, Python, or Golang
  • Experience with CI/CD tools like Jenkins or Spinnaker
  • Hands-on expertise in security for sensitive customer data environments.
  • Demonstrated ability in advanced prompt engineering for AI tools.
  • Excellent analytical, communication, and team collaboration skills

Responsibilities

  • Ensure maximum uptime and performance of Salesforce’s Government Cloud infrastructure.
  • Lead projects in the design, development, and support of platforms for government clients.
  • Collaborate on CI/CD pipeline iterations to enhance service delivery efficiency.
  • Develop production-ready software integrating AI tools in the workflow.
  • Design complex systems for AI integration in operational processes.
  • Critically evaluate and maintain code quality for both human and AI-generated software.
  • Document systems and processes to support operational clarity and efficiency.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits package supporting work-life balance
  • Access to professional development resources
  • Innovative work environment with creative team dynamics
  • Opportunities for impacting AI-driven solutions
  • Supportive company culture encouraging autonomy and accountability
Full Job Description

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Job Category

Software Engineering

Job Details

Must be a U.S. Citizen operating on U.S. Soil with ability to meet customer and government screening standards applicable to this role, including a Criminal Justice Information Services screening with fingerprint scan. Due to the citizenship requirement for this role, which supports U.S. federal, state, and/or local government customers, citizenship will be verified through two of the following REAL ID Act documents: U.S. Passport, Passport Card, REAL Driver's License, Global Entry Card, U.S. Government CAC/PIV.

We are looking for an experienced DevOps engineer to join a team of highly skilled Systems, Site Reliability, and DevOps Engineers working on service availability and performance. Our goal is a simple one: ensure maximum availability of Salesforce’s Government Cloud infrastructure through proactive enhancements, adept troubleshooting and ensuring security compliance. Equally important is advanced prompt engineering — the ability to write precise, structured prompts and cultivate the system context that makes AI outputs reliable, secure, and production-ready.

If you have a passion for problem solving, quickly diagnosing root causes and ensuring the resiliency of production systems, this role is for you!


In this role:

  • You are strong in solving Infrastructure related problems with code (with a focus on reusability) and you've mastered building compute capacity, worked on Kubernetes deployments at scale. You will be responsible for leading key projects in design, development, and post-release support of the Salesforce platform and tools that are used by a variety of internal teams to support our government customers.

  • Collaborating with internal teams for efficient iterations of automated CI/CD pipelines with the goal of maintaining service owner feature velocity, solving and reproducing issues reported in Production environments.

  • Build and ship high-quality, production-grade software using modern engineering practices, with AI as a core part of your development workflow by pushing the boundaries of AI development tools to deliver secure, optimized, and high-quality code.

  • Design and orchestrate complex systems where AI agents integrate seamlessly into human workflows, driving efficiency and innovation at scale.

  • Contribute to building and maintaining the shared system context, an explicit repository of system designs, constraints, and standards that enables AI to operate accurately and reliably.

  • Critically evaluate code (Human or AI-generated) for correctness, quality, security, and performance

  • You’ll demonstrate a sense of autonomy and vitality for ownership of your areas and proactively take accountability for progress forward.

  • You will get a chance to understand how things work with a large-scale production infrastructure within 3rd party cloud service providers.

  • You will transform human heavy processes into automated governance solutions.

  • Create and maintain detailed documentation.

  • You will get a chance to improve your influence and collaboration skills working with various other Infrastructure teams across Salesforce.

  • You will be interacting with a highly innovative and creative team of developers, open-source committers and architects.

  • Researching and finding the right tools for the job, and if they don't exist creating them.

  • Requirements:

    • Proven expertise in AWS environments, including infra build and optimization. Skilled in IaaS based TCP/IP networking protocols and associated components like transit gateway (tgw), vpc, security groups, and Route tables.

    • 3+ years deploying distributed apps with containers (Docker) & orchestration (Kubernetes, EKS, GKE)

    • 3+ years development experience in Infrastructure as code and config management such as Terraform and/or Ansible

    • 3+ years Linux system engineering experience

    • 2+ years developing or managing infrastructure and application security for Highly Sensitive Customer Data & Environments (IAM, CI/CD, PKI)

    • 3+ years experience deploying with a CI orchestration service (Spinnaker, Jenkins)

    • 2+ years working experience scripting/programming language (Shell, Python, Golang)

    • Experience with Log Management and Analytics tools such as Splunk / ELK

    • A demonstrated, genuine AI-first approach to engineering. Using AI to move faster, build fluency across the stack, and contribute well beyond your core specialty.

    • Experience using AI tools (e.g., Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Codex, Cursor, etc.) in development workflows

    • Advanced prompt engineering skills and the ability to write precise, structured prompts and cultivate the system context that makes AI outputs reliable, secure, and production-ready.

    • Possesses strong analytical skills and a dedication to ongoing professional development.

    • Demonstrates excellent interpersonal abilities with proficiency in both written and oral communication.

  • Nice to Haves:

    • Background in production service management, including on-call/PagerDuty rotations and the monitoring and alerting of service-specific SLIs and SLOs

    • Experience in any of the monitoring tools like Grafana, Prometheus, etc.

    • Experience developing security & compliance into pipelines such as (OPA, Checkov, Twistlock, Prisma)

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