Lead Salesforce DevOps Engineer
1 year (with opportunity for extension)
Hybrid - Consultant can work 50% on-site either from Albany office or NY City office.

Project: ITS Salesforce CoE

Overview:
Seeking a DevOps Engineer for Salesforce Platform is responsible for establishing and managing continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, automating testing and deployment workflows, and ensuring multi-tenant environment stability across agencies.

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and maintain Salesforce CI/CD pipelines.
• Manage environments, sandboxes, and version control (Git, branching strategies).
• Establish automated deployment, rollback, and release validation workflows.
• Coordinate sandbox refresh schedules and data seeding processes.
• Automate deployment approvals through integration with Salesforce CoE (Center of Excellence) governance (Architecture Review Board).
• Maintain metadata and package management for multi-agency environments.
• Support "Tenant Management" and data isolation strategy across agencies.
• Integrate automated unit and regression testing within CI/CD pipelines.
• Collaborate with QA and Solution Architects to create reusable testing frameworks.
• Track release metrics (defect rates, success/failure ratios, deployment durations).
• Implement monitoring and alerting (e.g., Salesforce Shield).
• Work closely with Solution Architects, and Developers.
• Provide release readiness checklists, training, and handbooks for solution teams.
• Mentor new DevOps engineers during CoE scaling phases.

Mandatory Qualifications:

• More than 7 years of experience working on complex projects
• 2 or more years in a leadership role as a DevOps Engineer.
• More than 7 years of DevOps experience in Salesforce platform.

Desirable Qualifications:

• 2 years of experience of Salesforce Metadata API, Change Sets, Scratch Orgs, and Unmanaged Packages.
• 2 years of experience of command of Git, YAML, and pipeline scripting.
• 2 years of experience with Salesforce Security, Shield Encryption, and SSO configuration.