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Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn’t a buzzword - it’s a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at the heart of it all.\nReady to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You’re in the right place! Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce.\nROLE OVERVIEW:\nThe Senior Technical Consultant - Salesforce DevOps & Release Engineering ensures Migration Factory solutions align with industry best practices to drive long-term customer success. You are a big-picture thinker and an in-depth problem solver, with broad and deep technical expertise. 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Core toolchain for all factory pipelines.\n Apex & Lightning Web Components: Hands-on Salesforce development in Apex (Triggers, Batch, Schedulable, REST/SOAP callouts) and Lightning Web Components - sufficient to build and maintain DevOps tooling deployed on the Salesforce platform: pipeline dashboards, environment health monitors, deployment validators and wave progress trackers.\n CI/CD Tools - Copado, Jenkins, GitLab, Azure DevOps: Strong working knowledge of enterprise CI/CD tools for Salesforce - Copado (user stories, pipelines, quality gates), Jenkins, GitLab CI and Azure DevOps Pipelines. Ability to author complex multi-stage pipelines with conditional logic, secrets management and parallel track execution.\nVersion Control - GitHub, Bitbucket: Expert Git discipline - GitFlow, GitHub Flow and trunk-based development applied to Salesforce multi-org delivery. Ability to design environment-to-branch mapping, PR gate policies, automated merge conflict detection and long-running release branch management for concurrent wave teams.\nSandbox Strategy & Source-Driven Development: Deep understanding of Salesforce sandbox lifecycle management - full/partial/developer/scratch org provisioning, refresh scheduling, post-refresh automation and source-driven deployment patterns. Ability to design a full migration environment pyramid and automate its management.\nDeployment Models - Change Sets, Packages, Metadata Deployments: Comprehensive knowledge of all Salesforce deployment models - Change Set migration, Unlocked/Managed 2GP package development and direct Metadata API deployments. Ability to select and implement the right model for each track's migration phase and wave complexity.\n Test Automation Tools - Provar, CRT, TOSCA, ApexUnit, JMeter: Exposure to Salesforce test automation tooling - Provar, Copado Robotic Testing (CRT), TOSCA, Selenium for UI regression, ApexUnit for Apex coverage and JMeter for performance testing. Ability to integrate automated test execution as quality gates in CI pipelines across all tracks.\nCode Quality & Security Tools - SonarQube, PMD, Checkmarx: Hands-on experience integrating static analysis and security scanning tools - PMD for Apex rule enforcement, ESLint for LWC, SonarQube or Checkmarx for SAST - authoring custom rule sets for migration-specific anti-patterns and enforcing blocking gates in CI pipelines.\nDocker & Orchestration Pipelines: Experience with Docker for building hermetic CI build environments, SFDX toolchain version management and containerised deployment execution. 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