Senior Systems Engineer - Delivery DevOps
Intuit · ATLANTA, GA
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Jul 24, 2026
ATLANTA, GA
Jul 26, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior individual-contributor role focused on the infrastructure behind a large-scale email sending platform. Day-to-day work spans managing a fleet of AWS-hosted MTA servers, maintaining Postfix-based mail transfer software, building and operating CI/CD pipelines, writing Infrastructure-as-Code, and owning monitoring and incident response. Best suited to an experienced systems or platform engineer with deep Linux, AWS, and MTA operations background.
Senior level · 7+ years · Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Alpharetta, GA · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 20 people in the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Alpharetta, GA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (network and computer systems administrators). range 4–30
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $103,221 (middle half $83,885–$129,834).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
SOC classification is a genuine close call. The role sits at the boundary between 15-1244 (Network and Computer Systems Administrators) and 15-1252 (Software Developers). The primary day-to-day work is operating and scaling a production MTA fleet — Linux administration, AWS fleet management, autoscaling, monitoring, and on-call — which points to 15-1244. However, the role also writes CI/CD pipelines, builds tooling and services in Python/PHP, and manages IaC, which are software-development activities. 15-1244 was chosen because the center of gravity is explicitly described as 'systems and cloud engineering' and fleet operations, not shipping application features.
No work location is explicitly stated in the posting. Mailchimp's primary engineering hub is Atlanta, GA; that CBSA is used as the best available inference. The role may also be eligible for other Intuit/Mailchimp office locations.
Compensation details are not disclosed beyond a general reference to Intuit's pay-for-performance program and eligibility for bonus and equity.
BigQuery, OpenSearch, and Splunk appear in both the Responsibilities section (as examples of observability tooling) and the Required Qualifications section, so they are treated as hard gates despite the 'for example' framing — the qualifications section explicitly requires 'comfort with data and analytics tooling (for example, BigQuery, OpenSearch, and Splunk)'.
Terraform, Ansible, and Puppet are listed as interchangeable examples of IaC/configuration-management tooling in the Required section; Terraform is used as the primary name with the others as alternatives.
ArgoCD and Artifactory appear in the Responsibilities narrative rather than the Required Qualifications block, so they are marked preferred.
Go, C, C++, and Perl are explicitly called 'a plus' in the Required section, so they are marked preferred.
The 'Bonus Points' section covers: Postfix internals/RPM packaging, TCP/IP and TLS/OpenSSL networking depth, receiver-side anti-abuse experience, Python/Regex/R with math and stats, and Jira/Confluence — all marked preferred.
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