Salesforce DevOps Release Engineer

What You’ll Do

As a DevOps and Release Engineer, you’ll lead the release management and deployment pipeline across our Salesforce, Boomi, and AWS environments, ensuring changes move safely and predictably from development through production. You’ll partner with Salesforce developers, integration engineers, and cloud infrastructure teams to build guardrails that catch breaking changes before they reach customers. This role is critical to reducing production incidents caused by uncoordinated changes across interconnected systems.

This is a remote role reporting to the Senior Manager of Business Technology.

What Your Responsibilities Will Be

• Review and validate Salesforce, Boomi, and AWS deployment requests, ensuring you check change sets for dependency conflicts before promoting them between environments.
• Develop CI/CD pipelines using Salesforce CLI, change sets, and GitLab for Salesforce deployments, alongside Terraform for AWS infrastructure provisioning.
• Troubleshoot deployment failures with engineering teams and maintain automated rollback procedures to minimize production impact.
• Build monitoring dashboards to ensure deployment issues are identified and addressed before they affect customers.
• Establish and enforce release governance standards including approval gates, dependency checks, environment promotion criteria, and change advisory board (CAB) processes.
• Define and report on important deployment metrics — deployment frequency, change failure rate, mean time to recovery (MTTR), and lead time for changes — to improve release performance.
• Partner with security and compliance teams to ensure all deployments meet organizational controls, audit requirements, and regulatory standards.
• Develop runbooks, deployment strategies, and operational documentation to ensure repeatability and knowledge transfer across engineering teams.

What You’ll Need To Be Successful

Qualifications

• B.S. in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of experience in DevOps, release engineering, or a similar role supporting enterprise environments
• Hands-on experience with Salesforce CLI, change sets, and Salesforce metadata deployments
• Proficiency with GitLab CI/CD pipelines and Terraform for infrastructure provisioning
• Experience managing release processes across multiple interconnected systems (Salesforce, Boomi, AWS)
• Troubleshoot with the ability to resolve deployment failures
• Collaborate to work with multiple engineering teams
• Experience implementing release governance practices such as approval gates, dependency checks, and rollback procedures
• Experience applying AI-powered tools and automation (e.g., GitHub Copilot, AI-assisted code reviews, or AI-driven testing frameworks) to improve deployment efficiency and reduce manual effort
• Familiarity with Boomi or similar integration platforms and their deployment processes
• Experience with Salesforce DevOps Center or third-party Salesforce release management tools (Copado, Gearset, or Flosum)
• Knowledge of AWS CloudFormation, CDK, or other infrastructure-as-code tooling beyond Terraform
• Exposure to SRE practices, incident management frameworks (e.g., Firehydrant, Opsgenie), and observability platforms (e.g., Datadog, Splunk)
• Relevant certifications such as AWS DevOps Engineer, Salesforce Administrator/Developer, or HashiCorp Terraform Associate

As a Bar Raiser

• You are expected to elevate the organization’s DevOps and release engineering capabilities, rather than to maintain existing processes. This includes:

• Hold standards for release quality, deployment reliability, automation across Salesforce, Boomi, and AWS environments.
• Create a culture of “automation first” by eliminating manual deployment activities, reducing operational risk, and improving deployment velocity through scalable CI/CD practices.
• Use data, operational metrics, and production insights — not assumptions — to improve deployment success rates, release predictability, change failure rates, and recovery times.
• Simplify complex cross-platform deployment workflows into standardized, repeatable, and release processes that scale with business growth.
• Establish and improve engineering guardrails, including dependency validation, release governance, automated testing, approval gates, rollback strategies, and deployment observability.
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