Salesforce
Senior Systems Engineer (Cleared)
$172K–$260K
Virginia - Herndon · Office - Based · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 21, 2026
- Experience
- 4+ years Linux engineering; 3+ years maintaining, building, or patching highly sensitive customer data and environments; 3+ years CI orchestration; 3+ years AWS; 2+ years scripting or programming; 2+ years containers and orchestration.
- Education
- BS in Computer Science or equivalent work experience (preferred).
- Visa sponsorship
- Must be a U.S. citizen (U.S. born or naturalized), must not hold dual citizenship, and must complete a U.S. federal government Minimum Background Investigation (MBI) for a Moderate Public Trust position; requires USA TS/SCI with Polygraph security access level.
About the job
Build and operate infrastructure automation, governance, and deployment solutions for U.S. National Security customers in specialized cloud environments.
What you'll do
- Automate infrastructure deployment, governance, and manual processes; build compute capacity using code.
- Improve CI/CD pipeline governance with partner teams while maintaining service-owner delivery and maintenance velocity.
- Design test and deployment services, evaluate technologies, and collaborate with infrastructure teams.
What they ask for
- Active 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 and 3+ years working within and building on AWS.
- 2+ years with a scripting or programming language and 2+ years deploying distributed applications using containers and orchestration.
Nice to have
- BS 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.
Pay
$172,500 - $260,100 annually (USD, base salary)
Tools
Linux, Jenkins, Spinnaker, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Shell, Perl, Python, Docker
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