SalesForce Devops Engineer

Job Description

Job title: Salesforce DevOps Engineer

Location: Alameda, CA (Onsite Must)

Duration: Long term contract/FTE

Experience 8-12 years

Primary (Must have skills)* -

Salesforce platform (Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud), Salesforce DevOps processes using Copado, CI/CD Pipeline, GitHub

Job Description:

The ideal candidate will provide leadership across three major functional teams—Medical Affairs, Market Access, and Marketing—comprising approximately 10–12 Salesforce developers.

Responsibilities include implementing and managing a robust CI/CD pipeline, ensuring secure and efficient configuration and permission controls, enforcing coding standards, and maintaining overall platform hygiene.

Key to this role is establishing the right frameworks for release governance, DevOps guidelines, and onboarding processes for new developers.

The ideal candidate will ensure that architecture decisions adhere to best practices and balance configuration vs. custom code strategies.

Additionally, retrospectives will be conducted to continuously optimize processes and delivery cycles.

The ideal candidate will be expected to:

• Lead end-to-end DevOps lifecycle including build, deploy, release management, and monitoring.

• Enforce access and security protocols, permission sets, and environment controls.

• Define and enforce Salesforce development standards, architectural guidelines, and deployment workflows.

• Collaborate closely with developers, architects, and QA engineers to manage branching strategies, quality gates, and deployment plans using Copado and GitHub.

• Onboard new developers with clear guidance on access provisioning, dev standards, and team workflows.

• Maintain and enhance development hygiene by overseeing code reviews, maintaining test coverage, and ensuring documentation is current.

• Govern and guide developers through retrospectives and continuous improvement cycles.

This role is critical in creating a scalable and secure Salesforce development ecosystem that supports enterprise-grade delivery for commercial life sciences applications.

secondary Skill

• Salesforce Platform Developer I/II or Application Architect certifications

• Knowledge of other DevOps tools like Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Bitbucket

• Exposure to Salesforce Veeva CRM or life sciences domain-specific deployments

• Basic understanding of test automation frameworks for Salesforce

• Experience with Lightning Web Components (LWC) and Apex