Salesforce DevOps Engineer

Anticipated Contract End Date/Length: Approximately 3 months

Work Setup: Hybrid (60% in office, 40% remote)

Clearance Required: BPSS eligibility

Our client in the Information Technology and Services industry is looking for a Salesforce DevOps Engineer to enable the efficient, reliable, and secure delivery of Salesforce solutions through the adoption of DevOps principles, automation, and best-practice release management processes. Working closely with Salesforce developers, administrators, architects, testers, and business stakeholders, the successful candidate will support the end-to-end software development lifecycle across the Salesforce platform.

The role will play a key part in accelerating deployment automation, release management, environment support, and Salesforce platform delivery activities. The successful candidate will design and maintain CI/CD pipelines, manage Salesforce environments, improve deployment processes, and ensure changes are delivered consistently and effectively across development, testing, and production environments, with a strong focus on continuous improvement, platform stability, governance, and operational excellence.

What you will do:

• Design, implement, maintain, and optimise Salesforce CI/CD pipelines to support automated and repeatable deployments.
• Accelerate deployment automation by reducing manual processes and improving delivery efficiency across Salesforce environments.
• Support and coordinate Salesforce release management activities to ensure releases are planned, tested, approved, and deployed successfully.
• Manage the movement of Salesforce metadata, configuration, and code across multiple environments using established DevOps practices.
• Provide ongoing environment support, including provisioning, refreshes, issue resolution, and maintenance activities.
• Collaborate with development, testing, and business teams to align deployment and release activities with project objectives and delivery schedules.
• Maintain and administer version control repositories, branching strategies, and source-driven development processes.
• Monitor and enhance deployment performance to improve reliability, quality, and speed of delivery.
• Support change management and governance processes to ensure deployments comply with organisational standards, security requirements, and audit controls.
• Troubleshoot deployment issues, environment challenges, and release-related incidents to minimise business impact.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation, deployment procedures, and operational standards.
• Promote DevOps best practices and continuous improvement initiatives across Salesforce delivery teams.
• Support the implementation and optimisation of Salesforce DevOps tools and associated platform capabilities.
• Provide deployment metrics, reporting, and insights to support effective decision-making and risk management.

Requirements

• Bring proven experience working with Salesforce platform delivery, release management, and DevOps practices.
• Possess strong understanding of Salesforce environments, metadata deployment, and configuration management.
• Bring experience with CI/CD tools and DevOps platforms such as Gearset, Copado, AutoRABIT, Azure DevOps, GitHub, GitLab, Jenkins, or similar technologies.
• Possess strong knowledge of version control systems and branching strategies, particularly Git-based repositories.
• Bring experience supporting complex deployments across multiple Salesforce environments.
• Possess understanding of Salesforce DX and modern Salesforce development lifecycle practices.
• Demonstrate strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to identify and resolve technical issues efficiently.
• Possess excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across technical and non-technical teams.
• Bring experience working within Agile delivery methodologies and collaborative development environments.
• Demonstrate the ability to prioritise workloads, manage competing deadlines, and maintain attention to detail.
• Possess a strong commitment to quality, governance, security, and continuous improvement.
• Hold Salesforce certifications such as Salesforce Administrator, Platform App Builder, Platform Developer, or Salesforce DevOps-related certifications, desirable.
• Bring experience operating within enterprise-scale Salesforce environments, desirable.
• Possess knowledge of automated testing frameworks and deployment validation processes, desirable.
• Bring familiarity with integration platforms, APIs, and enterprise application landscapes, desirable.
• Possess experience implementing DevOps transformation initiatives and delivery process improvements, desirable.
• Bring understanding of change management, risk management, and IT service management principles, desirable.
• Possess exposure to cloud technologies and broader DevOps toolsets beyond Salesforce, desirable.
• Bring experience mentoring team members and promoting DevOps best practices across delivery teams, desi