DevOps Release Engineer

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced Salesforce DevOps / Release Engineer to manage end-to-end Salesforce releases, CI/CD automation, environment management, and production support. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in Copado, Salesforce DX, Git, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, and Salesforce deployment best practices.

Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Responsibilities

• Lead release planning, validation, deployment, production cutovers, and post-deployment support across Dev, QA, UAT, and Production environments.
• Design, implement, and optimize CI/CD pipelines for Salesforce metadata, code, configurations, and Vlocity/OmniStudio components.
• Manage Copado user stories, commits, validations, promotions, back-promotions, deployment pipelines, and release governance.
• Define and enforce Git branching strategies, pull requests, code reviews, tagging, and version-control standards.
• Resolve deployment failures, merge conflicts, test-class errors, metadata dependencies, and environment synchronization issues.
• Manage sandbox strategy, org refreshes, post-refresh configurations, back-promotions, and environment alignment.
• Coordinate code freezes, defect prioritization, release communications, go-live activities, and hotfix deployments.
• Build release dashboards, deployment reports, audit documentation, and release runbooks.
• Collaborate with developers, QA teams, architects, product owners, and business stakeholders.
• Train development and QA teams on Copado, Git workflows, and deployment troubleshooting.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in Salesforce DevOps, release management, CI/CD engineering, or Salesforce administration.
• Strong hands-on experience with Copado and Salesforce CI/CD pipeline implementation.
• Strong knowledge of Salesforce CLI, Salesforce DX, Metadata API, source-format deployments, and deployment validation.
• Experience with Git, GitHub, Bitbucket, Gerrit, Azure Repos, branching strategies, and merge conflict resolution.
• Experience managing Salesforce sandboxes, environment strategy, refreshes, deployments, and production releases.
• Experience supporting Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Experience Cloud, Salesforce CPQ, and Vlocity/OmniStudio.
• Strong troubleshooting, documentation, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.

Technical Skills

• Copado, Gearset, Flosum, Salesforce DevOps Center, Opsera.
• Jenkins, Kokoro, Azure DevOps, AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild, and CodeCommit.
• Salesforce CLI, Metadata API, Change Sets, Workbench, Salesforce Inspector, and Data Loader.
• Vlocity: IDX Workbench, OmniScripts, DataRaptors, Integration Procedures, and FlexCards.
• AWS EC2, IAM, S3, RDS, VPC, Ansible, Docker, and Shell scripting.
• SonarQube, PMD, static code analysis, Salesforce Reports, and Dashboards.
• Jira, Agile/Scrum, and Kanban.

Preferred Qualifications

• Salesforce Administrator and Copado certifications.
• Gearset, Flosum, or Opsera certifications.
• Experience with Jenkins Groovy scripting, Maven, Nexus Repository Manager, and AWS automation.
• Experience supporting secure, regulated, or audit-driven Salesforce release environments.