Full-Time DevOps Engineer

We are seeking a DevOps Engineer with expertise in designing, building, and maintaining robust CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure that power our development and deployment processes. This individual will play a pivotal role in ensuring seamless integration and delivery of software, fostering a culture of automation, scalability, and efficiency. The ideal candidate will possess a strong background in DevOps principles and pipeline management and have a passion for automation and continuous improvement.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

- Work with development teams throughout the software life cycle ensuring sustainable software releases.

- Build and drive adoption for greater reliability, resiliency, and scalability of our production applications, while maintaining a cost conscious approach.

- Perform hands on management of cloud infrastructure and automation tools.

- Document cloud architecture, security measures, and participate in client audits.

- Mentor and train other members of the dedicated DevOps team on AWS services and collaborate with other cloud support teams that support the overall organization.

- Serve as a technical point of contact for all cloud services consumed by the team, and communicate any new enterprise standards or best practices to be adopted by the DevOps teams.
Design, set up, monitor, and improve DevOps processes for CI/CD, test automation, and monitoring for both our Salesforce platform and legacy application ensuring they are optimized for performance, scalability, and reliability.
Partner with development, engineering, QA teams, and release managers to ensure seamless integration and delivery processes.
Evaluate and recommend DevOps tools and technologies to improve efficiency and effectiveness.
Investigate and resolve issues related to build pipelines, deployment failures, and environment discrepancies.
Administer source code repositories (e.g., Git, Azure DevOps), ensuring proper version control and access management.
Collaborate with DevOps team, release management, and development teams to enforce coding standards, branching strategies, and merge processes.
Monitor and optimize the performance of source code management tools.
Implement security controls and best practices in pipelines and infrastructure.
Implement and maintain tools for monitoring, alerting, and reporting on release and source code management activities.
Collaborate with Salesforce DevOps, QA, and development teams to coordinate branches, metadata changes, and feature deployments.
Train team members on DevOps tools and processes, promoting a culture of continuous improvement and DevOps maturity.
Provide technical guidance and support to the development team on DevOps best practices.
Troubleshoot and resolve deployment issues and environment-related problems.
Work with developers to accurately resolve conflicts, deployment errors and meet code coverage.
Work closely with DevOps Release Manager to coordinate deployments across all tiers and environments and when needed manage the release.
Oversee the DevOps process including backups, data deployments (sandbox seeding), sandbox refreshes, and defining and DevOps KPIs.
Implement streamlined procedures for successful Salesforce deployments with minimal rework.
Partner with Release Manager on cross-team coordination of production issues to ensure quick resolution of Salesforce-specific bugs or deployment challenges.
Stay current with Salesforce best practices, trends, and platform updates to ensure processes remain aligned with platform innovations.
Flexible with off-hours work as needed for critical deployments.

Minimum Requirements

- Bachelor's degree in relevant field of study and 3+ years of relevant professional experience required, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Minimum of bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Mathematics, or related field required
Minimum 3+ years of experience as a DevOps Engineer building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with the most recent hands on experience in Salesforce.
Strong experience with source code management tools (e.g., Git, Bitbucket) and CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, Bamboo)
Solid understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC) and DevOps practices
Experience with Salesforce deployment tools (e.g., Flosum, Copado, Salesforce DX)
Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools like Git, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, or Copado.
Experience with CI/CD pipeline setup and branching strategy (e.g., Git, Jenkins, Bitbucket), code reviews, pull requests, and merge conflict management.
Proven ability to manage multiple Salesforce release cycles simultaneously.
Team player that can adapt in a fast pace and changing environment
Experience with risk management in Salesforce cloud deployments.
Superior organizational skills to produce technical governance documentation and establish standardized processes.
Familiarity with containerization and orchestration tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) is a plus
Solid understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC) and DevOps practices
Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git) and branching strategies.
Ability to think strategically and deliver tactically

Preferred Qualifications:

Strong background in Salesforce deployment processes and tools
Experience setting up development orgs and data seeding.
Salesforce certifications such as Administrator, DevOps Fundamentals or demonstrated knowledge of Salesforce architecture
Proficiency in scripting languages (e.g., Bash, Python) for automation purposes
Familiarity with containerization and orchestration tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) is a plus
Previous release management experience
Experience with Mulesoft, Marketing Cloud, and .Net applications is a plus.