DevOps Release Engineer - NTT DATA

OpenTalent; Karnataka; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,600,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenTalent in Karnataka, India seeks an experienced Salesforce DevOps engineer to lead release management, CI/CD pipelines, and environment governance across Salesforce clouds. You will drive Copado-driven deployments, manage sandboxes, and coordinate go-live activities with stakeholders.

The role demands hands-on expertise in Copado, Salesforce DX, Git workflows, and broad automation tooling, with a track record of delivering reliable, auditable release processes in regulated or audit-driven

Qualifications

• 8+ years of hands-on Salesforce DevOps, release management, or CI/CD experience.
• Extensive Copado expertise and Salesforce DX tooling.
• Proficient in Git workflows, branching strategies, and code reviews.
• Strong troubleshooting, documentation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience with regulated/audit-driven release environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead release planning, validation, deployment, production cutovers, and post-deployment support across environments.
• Design, implement, and optimize CI/CD pipelines for Salesforce metadata, code, configurations, and Vlocity/OmniStudio components.
• Manage Copado deployments, validations, promotions, and governance.
• Define and enforce Git branching strategies and version-control standards.
• Coordinate sandboxes, environment refreshes, and release go-live activities.
• Build release dashboards, deployment reports, and audit documentation.
• Collaborate with developers, QA, architects, product owners, and business stakeholders.
• Train teams on Copado, Git workflows, and deployment troubleshooting.
• Experience with Salesforce Sandboxes, Promotions, and production releases.

Skills

Salesforce DevOps

Release management

CI/CD engineering

Stakeholder management

Troubleshooting

Documentation

Education

Salesforce certifications (Administrator, Copado)

Tools

Copado

Git/GitHub/Bitbucket

Salesforce DX

Salesforce CLI

Jenkins

Azure DevOps

AWS CodePipeline

CodeBuild/CodeCommit

Change Sets

Data Loader

Job description

• Lead release planning, validation, deployment, production cutovers, and post-deployment support across Dev, QA, UAT, and Production environments.
• Design, implement, and optimize CI/CD pipelines for Salesforce metadata, code, configurations, and Vlocity/OmniStudio components.
• Manage Copado user stories, commits, validations, promotions, back-promotions, deployment pipelines, and release governance.
• Define and enforce Git branching strategies, pull requests, code reviews, tagging, and version-control standards.
• Resolve deployment failures, merge conflicts, test-class errors, metadata dependencies, and environment synchronization issues.
• Manage sandbox strategy, org refreshes, post-refresh configurations, back-promotions, and environment alignment.
• Coordinate code freezes, defect prioritization, release communications, go-live activities, and hotfix deployments.
• Build release dashboards, deployment reports, audit documentation, and release runbooks.
• Collaborate with developers, QA teams, architects, product owners, and business stakeholders.
• Train development and QA teams on Copado, Git workflows, and deployment troubleshooting.
• 8+ years of experience in Salesforce DevOps, release management, CI/CD engineering, or Salesforce administration.
• Strong hands-on experience with Copado and Salesforce CI/CD pipeline implementation.
• Strong knowledge of Salesforce CLI, Salesforce DX, Metadata API, source-format deployments, and deployment validation.
• Experience with Git, GitHub, Bitbucket, Gerrit, Azure Repos, branching strategies, and merge conflict resolution.
• Experience managing Salesforce sandboxes, environment strategy, refreshes, deployments, and production releases.
• Experience supporting Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Experience Cloud, Salesforce CPQ, and Vlocity/OmniStudio.
• Strong troubleshooting, documentation, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.
• DevOps Tools: Copado, Gearset, Flosum, Salesforce DevOps Center, Opsera.
• CI/CD: Jenkins, Kokoro, Azure DevOps, AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild, and CodeCommit.
• Deployment: Salesforce CLI, Metadata API, Change Sets, Workbench, Salesforce Inspector, and Data Loader.
• Vlocity: IDX Workbench, OmniScripts, DataRaptors, Integration Procedures, and FlexCards.
• Infrastructure: AWS EC2, IAM, S3, RDS, VPC, Ansible, Docker, and Shell scripting.
• Quality Tools: SonarQube, PMD, static code analysis, Salesforce Reports, and Dashboards.
• Project Tools: Jira, Agile/Scrum, and Kanban.
• Salesforce Administrator and Copado certifications.
• Gearset, Flosum, or Opsera certifications.
• Experience with Jenkins Groovy scripting, Maven, Nexus Repository Manager, and AWS automation.
• Experience supporting secure, regulated, or audit-driven Salesforce release environments.