Salesforce DevOps / Release Engineer

This is a remote position.

Salesforce DevOps / Release Engineer

Job Details

• Employment Type: Contract
• Work Mode: Remote
• Location: Offshore
• Total Experience Required: 4 to 7 years
• Relevant Experience Required: 3+ years of dedicated experience managing Salesforce release cycles, environments, and CI/CD pipelines
• Mandatory Certification: Salesforce Certified Development Lifecycle and Deployment Designer

Job Summary

We are seeking a Salesforce DevOps & Release Engineer to manage our platform stability, sandbox architecture, and deployment lifecycles. The ideal candidate will build and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines, orchestrate metadata migrations, establish branching strategies, and minimize environment friction across multi-stream development teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and optimize automated CI/CD pipelines specifically tailored for Salesforce metadata deployment using modern enterprise DevOps tooling.
• Manage the end-to-end sandbox lifecycle, including environment creation, standard and partial refreshes, data masking setups, and org alignment tracking.
• Establish and enforce source control branching models (e.g., GitFlow, trunk-based) to enable simultaneous, conflict-free multi-track development streams.
• Coordinate package-based and org-based deployments using Salesforce CLI, Salesforce DX (SFDX), and custom automated scripting.
• Automate code quality and security gates, integrating static code analysis engines (such as PMD, SonarQube, or Salesforce Code Analyzer) into build pipelines.
• Orchestrate scratch org structures and test-data seeding profiles to optimize automated execution runs within automated testing suites.
• Lead release triage efforts, resolving intricate metadata package merge conflicts, component dependency mismatches, and deployment failures across production drops.

Requirements

• 4 to 7 years of core DevOps or infrastructure orchestration experience, with 3+ dedicated years specifically driving release cycles on the Salesforce platform.
• Strong technical mastery of specialized Salesforce release management platforms (e.g., Copado, Gearset, Flosum) or cloud CI/CD infrastructure (e.g., GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins).
• Deep understanding of Git, Salesforce CLI commands, metadata API package structures, and the Salesforce DX platform architecture.
• Mandatory certification: Salesforce Certified Development Lifecycle and Deployment Designer.

Preferred Qualifications

• Salesforce Certified Administrator or Platform Developer I (PD1) certification.
• Prior scripting background using Bash, Python, or JavaScript to extend pipeline automation frameworks and custom deployment handling.