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DevOps Engineer - Development Tools & Services

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  • Software Engineering
    • California - San Francisco
  • Full time
  • JR300304
  • California Salary $137,100 - $236,500

Description

Salesforce has over 7,500 developers with offices throughout the Americas, EMEA, and APAC. Salesforce's development teams need to work smarter, faster and standards compliant. As part of Developer Productivity Experience, we provide secure, reliable, easy to use, and intelligent engineering tooling and services that are the foundation for all developers at Salesforce.

We leverage best-in-industry offerings to offer exceptional tools and services. We go above and beyond to delight our customers. We balance well across Trust and Run the Business, incremental and disruptive innovations in our tooling and services to power our Salesforce Chapter 3 journey.

You will be responsible for supporting the GIT based distributed version control systems (DVCS) and supporting a large community of internal developers. You will be part of a team that is responsible for ensuring that systems are reliable, highly available and operating at its peak efficiency 24 x 7 x 365. In addition this team enables code searchability, discoverability & intelligence to improve internal developer productivity.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement tools and processes to continuously improve our use of Git services including branching and merging strategies

  • Configure, deploy, manage and maintain large cloud-hosted distributed version control systems (DVCS); including auto-scaling, monitoring, performance tuning, troubleshooting and disaster recovery in multiple geographical areas

  • Design and implement the access models to ensure compliance with operational and security requirements for DVCS

  • Utilize features in DVCS to maximize developer productivity and seamless integrations with internal CI systems (Webhook, etc)

  • Collaborate with Software Engineering and IT Global Infrastructure to maintain continuous availability of mission critical systems

  • Strong scripting skills in any Python and/or UNIX with the ability to provide requirements for task automation, resource monitoring and performance monitoring

  • Experience with server hardware, networking, storage, and large scale infrastructure designs and troubleshooting

  • Ongoing administration of infrastructure and regular patches/maintenance as per compliance requirements

  • Leverage knowledge of design and architectural frameworks to improve scale and performance in constrained environments

  • Back-up and restore management; use back-up and recovery best practices to ensure systems are protected from data loss in compliance with established business continuity and DR practices

  • Engage with users to become a trusted evangelist to drive the evolution of SCM tools and processes

  • Support release, patch release process & on call rotation

  • Effective working with multiple teams and providing technical guidance

Experience/Skills Required

  • 3+ years of experience in Devops or similar role.

  • Strong working knowledge of SCM tools both as in administrator and developer with tools like GitHub &/or Perforce

  • Solid understanding of configure, deploy, manage and maintain large cloud-hosted version control systems in cloud infrastructures such as AWS and/or Google Cloud

  • Working knowledge for Infrastructure as Code(IaC) like Terraform.

  • Proven experience utilizing features in DVCS for integrations with different systems

  • Experience in modern CI/CD technologies such as Jenkins and building seamless integrations

  • Domain expertise supporting services for engineering organizations

  • In-depth, hands-on experience with Linux, networking, server, and cloud architectures for high-availability environments

  • Experience with automation/configuration management tools (Puppet, Chef, Salt, etc.)

  • Experience with enterprise monitoring systems is highly desired (e.g. Nagios, Zabbix, Splunk)

  • Fluency in one or more scripting languages such as Python and UNIX shell

  • Fluency in object-oriented programming languages like Java

  • Knowledge of tools like static/dynamic code analysis (e.g. Sonar, Coverity), code review, etc. and integrations with code repositories desired

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