[Hiring] Senior Infrastructure Architect @Salesforce

Role Description

Salesforce Professional Services is hiring a Senior Infrastructure Architect to join the Missionforce team. Salesforce and MuleSoft’s Professional Services teams work across technologies and systems to deliver solutions to the largest, most complex enterprise customers across every industry. As a Technical Architecture Director and Senior Infrastructure Architect, you will serve as a strategic IT advisor, MuleSoft product expert, and thought leader. You will lead enterprise-level technical architecture and governance, rationalize emerging technologies, and enable customers to deploy scalable, highly available integration solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Advising & Solution Architecture: Serve as a trusted advisor to C-level executives and IT decision-makers, guiding them in deploying emerging technologies that drive business value. Lead infrastructure solution architecture and design via comprehensive requirements workshops.
• Hands-on Implementation: Ultimate responsibility to execute overall solution architecture, managing other implementation resources and owning hands-on execution tasks to ensure successful delivery.
• Delivery & Governance: Review project direction, identify and mitigate risks, and lead Technical Architecture and Governance for enterprise-level customer engagements. Architect, implement, and support enterprise-grade, secure, and highly available infrastructure powering complex business solutions.
• Thought Leadership & Best Practices: Scale technical best practices globally by developing and evangelizing reusable assets, reference architectures, tutorials, and methodologies. Work closely with product teams to identify feature gaps and guide product direction. Manage customer expectations and negotiate solutions to complex problems.

Qualifications

• 15+ years in enterprise infrastructure architecture, with 8+ years of hands-on experience in Linux (scripting, system administration, performance tuning) and Cloud Computing/traditional data center technologies.
• 2-4 years of leading and managing people as a Technical Lead.
• Exceptional customer-facing communication, active listening, and presentation skills.

Requirements

• Clearance: Active Top Secret/Sensitive Confidential Information (TS/SCI) clearance (U.S. citizenship required; contingent upon acceptable background investigation).
• Work Location: Chantilly, VA.
• Technical Skills:
  • Demonstrated expertise in architecting, implementing, and supporting Enterprise-grade infrastructure.
  • Extensive Linux Expertise (8+ years): Proven ability to diagnose, troubleshoot, and resolve complex issues.
  • Extensive practical experience with managed Kubernetes offerings such as GKE, EKS, and AKS.
  • 8+ years of hands-on experience with Cloud Computing, including infrastructure, virtualization, containerization, networking, storage, platform.
  • Proficiency in at least two programming languages: Bash, Go, Python, Ruby, node.js, Rust, Java.
  • Comprehensive understanding of security best practices.
  • Experience building and managing IT Infrastructure architecture and operations teams.
  • Knowledge of operating in high security Government cloud environments.

Benefits

• Time off programs.
• Medical, dental, vision, mental health support.
• Paid parental leave.
• Life and disability insurance.
• 401(k) and employee stock purchasing program.