Senior Technical Consultant — Salesforce DevOps
About the role
About Salesforce
ROLE OVERVIEW
• Collaborate with client stakeholders
Assess existing DevOps processes, tools and practices
Design, present and implement best-fit DevOps solutions
Drive the selection and implementation of DevOps tools and technologies
Lead the setup and execution of Salesforce DevOps frameworks
Collaborate closely with Technical Architects and track leads
Ensure successful continuous delivery deployments across environments
Collaborate with Salesforce product teams
Design and own the Migration Factory's CI/CD pipeline architecture
Implement source-driven development standards
Lead cutover pipeline design and automation
Build and maintain the DevOps accelerator library
Govern metadata versioning and conflict resolution
Define and report on DevOps metrics
Participate in Architecture Review Board (ARB)
Support developer onboarding and DevOps enablement
• Salesforce Platform Experience (6+ years)
Salesforce DX, CLI & Metadata API
Apex & Lightning Web Components
CI/CD Tools — Copado, Jenkins, GitLab, Azure DevOps
Version Control — GitHub, Bitbucket
Sandbox Strategy & Source-Driven Development
Deployment Models — Change Sets, Packages, Metadata Deployments
Test Automation Tools — Provar, CRT, TOSCA, ApexUnit, JMeter
Code Quality & Security Tools — SonarQube, PMD, Checkmarx
Docker & Orchestration Pipelines
Security Integration in CI/CD
Performance Monitoring Tools
Branching & Release Governance
Client-Facing Communication & Project Leadership
PREFERRED SKILLS — GOOD TO HAVE
- Copado Robotic Testing (CRT) or Provar for Salesforce end-to-end UI regression test automation integrated into migration validation pipelines
- Experience with Terraform or Pulumi for Infrastructure as Code - managing Salesforce Connected App provisioning, Named Credentials and OAuth configurations programmatically
- Knowledge of Docker/containerisation for building hermetic CI build environments and SFDX toolchain version management
- Experience with Salesforce Shield - Platform Encryption key management, Event Monitoring and Field Audit Trail - ensuring encryption-compatible deployments during migration waves
- Familiarity with Salesforce DevOps Center (native Salesforce DevOps tooling) as an alternative or complement to Gearset/Copado pipelines
- Experience integrating SonarQube or Veracode for advanced security scanning beyond PMD/ESLint
- Knowledge of Salesforce CLI plugins ecosystem - sfdx-git-delta, sfdx-hardis, sf-org-compare - for delta deployment optimisation and org difference reporting
- Understanding of cross-cloud deployment patterns - coordinating simultaneous deployments across Salesforce core org, Marketing Cloud, Tableau Cloud and Data Cloud in a single migration wave
- Experience with migration-specific test data generation tools (Mockaroo, Snowfakery) for synthetic data seeding in scratch orgs and developer sandboxes
- Python scripting for Tableau REST API automation, Salesforce Bulk API data operations and custom migration pipeline orchestration scripts
EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS
- 6+ years of hands-on experience on the Salesforce platform with a primary focus on DevOps, release management and CI/CD implementation (aligned to Salesforce Sr. TC - DevOps career framework)
- Demonstrated experience leading DevOps setup and execution for small-to-medium Salesforce projects independently, and supporting Technical Architects as the DevOps lead on large-scale enterprise programmes
- 3+ years of dedicated CI/CD pipeline design for Salesforce - managing multi-org environment strategies, sandbox lifecycle automation and metadata deployment pipelines
- Experience supporting concurrent multi-track or multi-workstream delivery programmes in a DevOps or release engineering capacity - managing pipeline conflicts and environment contention across parallel teams
- Demonstrated experience designing and executing go-live cutover automation for at least 2 Salesforce migration or implementation programmes
- Proven track record of building reusable pipeline templates, DevOps accelerators and branching governance standards adopted across multiple project teams
SALESFORCE & PLATFORM CERTIFICATIONS
- Salesforce Platform Developer I (Required)
- Salesforce Certified DevOps Accredited Professional (Required)
- Salesforce Administrator (Required)
- Salesforce Platform Developer II (Preferred)
- Copado DevOps Certified Administrator or Developer (Preferred)
- Gearset DevOps Certified Professional (Preferred)
- GitHub Actions Certification (Preferred)
- Salesforce Application Architect (Preferred)
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