Salesforce DevOps Lead — Platform Automation

ATB; Edmonton; Hybrid; CAD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

ATB Financial is seeking a visionary Salesforce DevOps Lead to guide engineering teams and centralize Salesforce capabilities into a unified, secure platform. You will bridge Salesforce operations with modern software engineering, engineer custom tooling, automate workflows, and establish code quality standards to accelerate delivery.

You will mentor developers, orchestrate projects, and enable rapid business value while maintaining strong security and compliance practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering or equivalent practical experience.
• 6+ years of software development experience with strong scripting capabilities (e.g., Python, Bash, Node.js) to build custom tooling and platform utilities.
• 5+ years of DevOps experience focused on Salesforce platform engineering, CI/CD pipeline automation, and release management.
• Strong understanding of security and compliance best practices for Salesforce configuration, integrations, and certificates.
• Deep, hands-on expertise with Salesforce development and configuration (Apex, Lightning Web Components, Metadata API, SF CLI / Salesforce DX, SOQL, and APIs).
• Proven track record building automated CI/CD pipelines for Salesforce using tools like GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Copado, Gearset, or Jenkins
• Expert knowledge of Salesforce environment management, sandbox refresh strategies, data masking, and scratch org orchestration
• Experience with enterprise observability, system monitoring, and logging tools (e.g., Splunk) to track health metrics and alerts
• Advanced source code management and Git-based branching strategies, following best practices for collaborative development
• Solid understanding of the software application lifecycle, including system design, integration, risk assessment, and technical analysis
• Experience with Agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban) and working within dedicated product teams

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership, oversight, and strategic alignment across multiple concurrent Salesforce projects and engineering initiatives.
• Mentor and coach team members in Salesforce development best practices, design patterns, and quality standards.
• Design, build, and optimize enterprise CI/CD release workflows and automation pipelines across Salesforce environments.
• Establish standardized deployment guardrails, quality gates, and automated release strategies to support predictable, high-frequency delivery.
• Design and build custom developer tooling, automation scripts, and utilities that reduce technical friction and accelerate developer velocity.
• Own sandbox lifecycle management, including automated provisioning, refresh cycles, backups, and capacity monitoring across all development orgs.
• Define environment strategy and integration patterns to support multi-sandbox system designs within enterprise constraints.
• Build automated sandbox data provisioning, database mocking patterns, and execution optimization tools to shorten developer feedback loops and accelerate unit testing cycles.
• Streamline continuous integration pipelines and environment readiness frameworks to empower engineering teams to validate code updates autonomously.
• Implement enterprise platform monitoring, proactive error alerting, and system health tracking across integrations, batch processing, and storage capacity.
• Oversee platform compliance, security credential lifecycles, and data management/retention strategies.
• Maintain and update platform and release tooling (e.g Copado) with version updates, coordinating impact awareness across engineering teams.

Skills

Technical leadership

Self-directed

Visionary problem solving

Collaborative influencer

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or equivalent

Tools

Copado

Gearset

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI/CD

Job description

ATB Financial is seeking a visionary Salesforce DevOps Lead to guide engineering teams and centralize Salesforce capabilities into a unified, secure platform. You will bridge Salesforce operations with modern software engineering, engineer custom tooling, automate workflows, and establish code quality standards to accelerate delivery.

You will mentor developers, orchestrate projects, and enable rapid business value while maintaining strong security and compliance practices.