Senior Manager, Systems Engineering

Location: Virginia - Herndon

Remote Type: Office - Based

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

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Job Category

Software Engineering

Job Details

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*This is a customer-facing role and will require you to be on-site in Herndon, Virginia. This is NOT a remote position.*

Salesforce is seeking an Engineering Leader to join the Build and Automation organization! Working closely with counterparts in the Infrastructure and R&D organizations, this organization provides a team of engineers responsible for building industry leading software - like CRM, Data Cloud, and Agentforce - for our sponsoring customer. As the leader of the Build and Automation organization, your team leads efforts to expand the offerings available to our customers by building features and services into our existing platform. In addition, your team is responsible for both “away team” functions, where your team works with commercial partners to improve their existing offerings to work in restricted environments, and craft custom solutions to work - solving unique problems in scalable and repeatable ways. Your team acts as technical mentors to less experienced engineers on the broader team, helping to grow and develop engineers across the entire program.

PLEASE NOTE: Qualification for this job is contingent upon acceptable results from a background investigation as well as your having and maintaining the specific level of U.S. government background investigation and clearance required for this role.

*Senior Manager, Systems Engineering*

Coordinate build activities in restricted regions, serving as the liaison between build engineers and the commercial service teams that own and operate services.

Operate effectively in a fast-paced environment to resolve complex issues quickly and prioritize competing demands.

Ensure all work executed by the Build and Automation team aligns strictly with the company’s internal compliance policies and directives.

Collaborate with other technical staff to discuss and resolve technical issues and customer concerns as needed.

Drive Problem Management by populating and participating in Root Cause Analyses (RCAs) and transitioning them to the Global Solutions team.

Identify new work opportunities and prepare or assist with technical proposals.

Automate the detection and resolution of recurring build issues within the restricted environment.

Minimum Requirements:

• Active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph required

• A related 4-year technical degree or equivalent work experience required

• 4+ year proven experience managing a team of developers or engineers operating in a restricted environment.

• Systems engineering experience in enterprise scale internet service engineering or support role

• Mentoring/training systems engineers and systems development engineers

• Proven experience in culture setting for larger organizations - being able to influence change across multiple teams and disciplines - including those teams without experience working in restricted environments

• Program and product management skills - track record of delivering technical programs, projects, and products in a highly technical multi-team environment

• Systems engineering fundamentals (networking, storage, operating systems)

• Leading development life cycle processes and best practices, esp. in the areas of deployment automation

Preferred Qualifications:

• BS or higher degree preferred in Computer Science plus relevant job-related experience

• Expertise in Kubernetes based deployments and Kubernetes based development.

• Hands on experience configuring and running AWS (Amazon Web Services), using the CLI/SDKs

• Experience in Docker orchestration and management.

• Ability to analyze and leverage data and metrics driven focus, both qualitative and quantitative.

• Experience working within both the Intelligence Community (IC) and Department of Defense (DOD) environments

• Experience with distributed systems at scale

This candidate must be a U.S. citizen (U.S. born or naturalized) who does not hold dual citizenship and agrees to complete a U.S. federal government Minimum Background Investigation (MBI) for a Moderate Public Trust position.This position requires a USA TS/SCI with Polygraph security access level.

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