Engineer-Senior

Salary Range : $156,000 -$196,300 Annually

Appointment Type:

Permanent Exempt:
This position is excluded by the Charter from the competitive civil service examination process and shall serve at the discretion of the appointment officer. Theanticipatedduration of this project position is up to thirty-six (36) months

Work Location:

Incumbent will conduct the majority ofwork at the Department of Technology,(1 S Van Ness, Ave San Francisco, CA 94103).However, there may be situations where the incumbent willbe required to work at other sites throughout the Cityand Countyof San Francisco as necessary.

Nature of Work:

This is a full-time position. The department supports a hybrid work schedule in compliance with City & County of San Francisco policies on remote work.

Are you ready to make an impact in one of the most innovative cities? The San Francisco Department of Technology (DT) is looking for passionate IT professionals to help shape the future of technology in San Francisco! As the centralized technology services provider for the City and County of San Francisco (CCSF), DT delivers critical infrastructure and services to over 33,000 employees—supporting public safety, municipal broadband, cybersecurity, cloud solutions, and more!

With a $140M+ annual budget and a team of 300+ experts, DT is leading the charge in digital transformation.

DT provides services through our core areas of IT Excellence:

• IT Project Management Office
• Cloud Center of Excellence
• IT Operations and Support including the Service Desk and NOC
• City Infrastructure including the Network, Telcom and Data Centers
• Officeof Cybersecurity including Cyber Defense, Identity Management and Disaster Recovery
• Public Safety Systems and Municipal Broadband Fiber
• SFGovTVBroadcasting Services
• IT Finance and Administration Services
• Emerging Technologies

Why Join Us?

Innovative &impactfulworkat DT, youwon’tjust work on IT—you’llpower a city.

Yourexpertisewill directlyimpactthe residents of San Francisco, from closing the digital divide to ensuring secure, efficient city operations.

Benefits of Working for CCSF:
In addition to challenging and rewarding work, the City provides a generous suite of benefits to its employees.

• Competitive pay, benefits, and retirement options
• Career growth opportunities through training, internal mobility, and subsidized education
• Diverse work environment in a diverse city

The Department of Technology is seeking a Senior IS Engineer to join the Platform Engineering team as a lead cloud migration and modernization engineer. This position provides senior technical leadership for Cloud 2030, the City’s five-year program to migrate approximately 1,700 workloads from on-premises data centers to commercial cloud platforms.

The position requires hands-on engineering: writing Terraform daily, building CI/CD pipelines, executing database migrations, modernizing legacy codebases, developing custom applications, and leading complex multi-cloud deployments from architecture through production cutover. The ideal candidate writes infrastructure-as-code fluently, has led cloud migrations of meaningful complexity, and is comfortable working across multiple cloud providers.

The Platform Engineering team is undergoing a transformation from traditional systems administration to a modern engineering organization. We use Git Hub for version control and CI/CD, Terraform for infrastructure-as-code, and AI coding tools (Claude Code, AWS Kiro) as part of our development workflow. We are accelerating adoption of containerization and cloud-native patterns across the team. You will help develop and further this technical and cultural change.

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