Desired Skills and Experience

  • The Senior Infrastructure Operations Engineer will be responsible for the oversight and management of Salesforce’s client facing applications, servers, and network 24x7.
  • You will be a member of an existing team dedicated to solving difficult challenges and providing high level support at Salesforce.
  • You will recommend and implement changes to the production environment that improve the stability and performance and security of a large scale Linux computing platform
  • Excellent technical and people skills are an absolute necessity.
  • 5-7 years experience working with Linux (RedHat, Apache, LDAP, Java Applications)
  • Extremely sound knowledge of automation tools (AWS, Azure)
  • Extremely sound knowledge TCP/IP network fundamentals
  • Experience with configuration management tools such as CFengine, Puppet, or Chef
  • Ability to develop complex scripts using at least two common system administration scripting languages preferably shell and Perl
  • Hands on experience with large autonomous Linux installations a plus.
  • Ability to perform performance and kernel tuning as well as deep troubleshooting and root cause analysis
  • Experience with engineering tools such as bug tracking and source code control systems
  • Ability to help develop and implement governance and security processes (i.e. Sarbanes-Oxley, SAS70, PCI, etc.)
  • Detail oriented and careful 
  • Experience with hardware load balancers
  • Experience with NFS storage subsystems