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Salesforce DevOps Lead
Location: Reading
Salary: Up to 75,000 per annum (depending on experience)
Working Model: Hybrid - 2 days in the office per week
Type: Permanent, full-time
About the Role:
Our client is looking for a highly skilled and experienced Salesforce DevOps Lead to join their growing Digital Transformation team. This role plays a key part in shaping and implementing DevOps best practices across the Salesforce platform, ensuring stability, scalability, and security while driving automation and continuous improvement.
You'll define and implement CI/CD pipelines, enhance developer workflows, and lead initiatives to improve platform performance and reliability. This position requires strong technical expertise in Salesforce DevOps, CI/CD tools, environment management, and automation, as well as the ability to collaborate across multiple teams to deliver seamless deployments and robust systems.
Key Responsibilities
DevOps Strategy & Implementation
- Develop and implement DevOps strategies for the Salesforce platform.
- Define best practices for CI/CD, release management, and automated testing.
- Enhance deployment automation to support Salesforce solutions.
CI/CD Pipeline Management
- Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for Salesforce development.
- Ensure conflict-free and automated deployments with minimal downtime.
- Continuously monitor and improve pipeline efficiency.
Environment & Release Management
- Manage Salesforce environments, ensuring consistency across development, testing, and production.
- Establish and enforce version control strategies.
- Oversee release schedules to ensure incident-free deployments with minimal business impact.
Infrastructure & Security
- Implement security best practices, including role-based access control and compliance monitoring.
- Work closely with security teams to mitigate risks and enforce governance policies.
- Optimise performance and scalability of Salesforce infrastructure.
Monitoring & Incident Management
- Establish monitoring and logging solutions for proactive issue detection.
- Respond to production incidents, conduct root cause analysis, and implement preventive measures.
- Collaborate with platform teams to resolve performance bottlenecks.
Automation & Continuous Improvement
- Identify opportunities to automate manual processes within the Salesforce estate.
- Lead efforts to enhance development workflows and manage code across projects and teams.
What You'll Bring
- Proven experience in Salesforce development and DevOps.
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools such as Git, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Bitbucket, or Copado.
- Expertise in Salesforce deployment strategies, including change sets, Salesforce DX, and metadata API.
- Strong understanding of version control and branching strategies.
- Experience with automation frameworks for testing and deployment.
- Experience working in agile and DevOps environments.
- Strong experience with Salesforce DX, CLI, and automation tools.
- Proficiency in APEX, Visualforce, LWC, and JavaScript.
- Experience in Salesforce API integration (REST, SOAP, Platform Events).
- Demonstrated experience in Agile and DevOps frameworks.
- Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code (IaC) and scripting languages such as Python or Shell.
- Experience with microservices architecture, integration/middleware, source control, CI/CD deployment, and security.
- Salesforce certifications such as Salesforce DevOps Specialist, Salesforce Administrator, or Salesforce Platform Developer.
Desirable Experience
- Previous experience in the utilities industry.
- Knowledge of Salesforce CPQ, Commerce Cloud, Service Cloud, and Field Service.
- Experience with test automation tools.
- Familiarity with VRA or OwnBackup.
- Experience with cloud-based infrastructure services such as AWS or Azure.
- Previous involvement in digital transformation projects.
Desirable Technical Skills & Qualifications
- Understanding of Salesforce security best practices.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with confidence presenting to senior stakeholders and translating technical concepts for non-technical audiences.
What's in it for You
- Competitive salary up to 75,000 per annum (depending on experience).
- 26 days of annual leave (rising to 30 with length of service) plus bank holidays.
- Performance-related pay plan tied to company and individual success.
- Generous pension scheme through AON.
- A wide range of benefits to support health, wellbeing, and financial security - including annual health MOTs, physiotherapy, counselling, Cycle to Work schemes, shopping vouchers, and life assurance.
