Engineer-Senior

Platform Engineer – Department of Technology

Apply using Smart Recruiters, the City and County of San Francisco's application portal.

Final date to receive applications:
Apply immediately. This recruitment is open until filled, but will close no sooner than Tuesday, March 17, 2026 (11:59 PM).

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. The anticipated duration of this project position is up to thirty-six (36) months.

Work Location:

Incumbent will conduct the majority of work at the Department of Technology, 1 S Van Ness Ave, San Francisco, CA 94103. However, there may be situations where the incumbent will be required to work at other sites throughout the City and County of 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.

Why join us? The San Francisco Department of Technology (DT) delivers critical infrastructure and services to over 33,000 employees, supporting public safety, municipal broadband, cybersecurity, cloud solutions, and more. DT provides services through 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, Telecom and Data Centers
• Office of Cybersecurity including Cyber Defense, Identity Management and Disaster Recovery
• Public Safety Systems and Municipal Broadband Fiber
• SFGovTV Broadcasting Services
• IT Finance and Administration Services
• Emerging Technologies

Benefits of Working for CCSF:
The City provides a generous suite of benefits to its employees, including competitive pay, benefits, retirement options, career growth opportunities, and a diverse work environment.

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 role 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 and has led cloud migrations of meaningful complexity.

The Platform Engineering team is evolving toward a modern engineering organization. We use Git Hub for version control and CI/CD, Terraform for infrastructure-as-code, and AI coding tools as part of the development workflow. We are accelerating containerization and cloud-native patterns across the team. You will help develop and further this technical and cultural change. We build and operate cloud environments that host systems for a city of 880,000 residents.

Essential duties include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Design and implement multi-cloud infrastructure using Terraform/Open Tofu
• Build and maintain Git Hub Actions CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and application deployments
• Lead end-to-end cloud migrations including network architecture, compute provisioning, database migration, and production cutover
• Modernize legacy applications for cloud deployment (containerization, framework upgrades, CI/CD enablement)
• Develop custom applications, automation tools, and internal platform services
• Perform database migrations across Oracle, SQL Server, and Postgre
  
  SQL, including data transfer, performance validation, and high-availability configuration
• Implement compliance controls (CJIS, HIPAA) as infrastructure-as-code
• Conduct code reviews and establish engineering standards for the team
• Mentor junior engineers on cloud architecture and modern development practices

These minimum qualifications establish the education, training, experience, special skills and/or license(s) required for employment in the classification.

Education
:
An associate degree in computer science, computer engineering, information systems, or a closely related field from an accredited college or university or its equivalent (at least 60 semester credits or 90 quarter credits with the specified concentration).

Experience
:
Three (3) years of experience analyzing, installing, configuring, enhancing, and/or maintaining the components of an enterprise network.

Substitution
:
Additional experience may be substituted for the required degree on a year-for-year basis (up to 2 years).

One (1) year is equivalent to 2,000 hours of qualifying work experience. Completion of the 1010 Information Systems Trainee Program may be substituted for the required degree.

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Applicants must meet the…