Salesforce Dev Ops Administrator

Merck; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 2,000,000 - 3,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Merck in Hyderabad is seeking a Salesforce DevOps & Digital SDLC Engineer to lead the Salesforce development lifecycle and deployment activities, owning release governance across multiple sandboxes and coordinating with product owners and QA teams.

You will design, implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines, ensure SDLC adherence, maintain tool configurations, and drive automation and traceability to meet GxP, regulatory, and audit-ready standards.

Qualifications

• At least 3 years of Salesforce experience.
• At least 2 years of Salesforce DevOps experience using Copado, Gearset or Flosum.
• Good understanding of git and branching.

Responsibilities

• DevOps: Using Salesforce tools to commit, analyze, validate, deploy and release changes.
• Perform Release Management activities.
• Design, implement, document and maintain Salesforce CI/CD pipelines.
• Maintain the configuration of Salesforce tools, document development lifecycle and deployment processes.
• Act as the Salesforce team’s Digital SDLC focal point for releases.
• Ensure QAP, RS, DCS, RTM, QASR and other committed deliverables are planned, maintained and completed where applicable.
• Support GxP/regulatory determination, risk profile inputs, traceability, test evidence and release readiness.
• Partner with Product Owners, QA/Compliance, Technical Business Analysts, Technical Delivery teams and Business Unit stakeholders.
• Promote automation such as Jira integration, test management integration, change automation, CI/CD evidence capture and compliance-as-code where appropriate.
• Coaching and training colleagues.
• Adhering to Salesforce best practices.
• Perform Salesforce Administrator activities.
• Collaborating with IT and developers of other systems to integrate across the business.
• Supporting Salesforce development teams on a daily basis.
• Working closely with business, gathering requirements.

Skills

Salesforce experience

Salesforce DevOps

Git & branching

Tools

Copado

Gearset

Flosum

Job description

Job Description R413871 Salesforce Dev Ops Administrator

Opportunity:

• Based in Hyderabad, join a global healthcare biopharma company and be part of a 130- year legacy of success backed by ethical integrity, forward momentum, and an inspiring mission to achieve new milestones in global healthcare.
• Be part of an organisation driven by digital technology and data-backed approaches that support a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines, and animal health products.
• Drive innovation and execution excellence. Be a part of a team with passion for using data, analytics, and insights to drive decision-making, and which creates custom software, allowing us to tackle some of the world’s greatest health threats.

Our Technology Centers focus on creating a space where teams can come together to deliver business solutions that save and improve lives. An integral part of our company’s IT operating model, Tech Centers are globally distributed locations where each IT division has employees to enable our digital transformation journey and drive business outcomes. These locations, in addition to the other sites, are essential to supporting our business and strategy.

A focused group of leaders in each Tech Center helps to ensure we can manage and improve each location, from investing in growth, success, and well-being of our people, to making sure colleagues from each IT division feel a sense of belonging to managing critical emergencies. And together, we must leverage the strength of our team to collaborate globally to optimize connections and share best practices across the Tech Centers.

The Lab Integration Platform is a critical enabler of digital transformation strategy, supporting secure, compliant, and efficient data exchange across laboratory systems.

Role Overview:

The position

As a Salesforce DevOps & Digital SDLC Engineer, you will play a key role in leading the Salesforce development lifecycle and deployment activities, owning release governance. You will design, implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines and own digital SDLC adoption, documentation completeness, audit readiness and alignment to SDLC expectations. You will take part in ensuring development teams follow release governance procedures, best practices and principles. You will ensure deployments and documentation are inline with our GxP requirements ensuring we meet our deliverables automation traceability, and audit/inspection readiness.

Who are you?

You are a Salesforce DevOps Engineer who has worked on Salesforce projects. You have experience administering Salesforce platform and a good understanding of the platform and it’s metadata. You understand SDLC controls, regulated delivery, and can help the teams translate delivery work into compliant lifcycle evidence without slowing down agile delivery.

You possess holistic experience across the platform and are willing to use pro-code and no-code solutions where they are suitable. You enjoy collaborating with the wider Salesforce team and working on cross-functional projects together.

You are experienced with agile and Scrum methodologies and using deployment tools to support the release management process across multiple sandboxes. In addition, you can support and advise the rest of the team on the topic of Salesforce development lifecycle and Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).

What will you do?

Your primary activities include (but are not limited to):

• DevOps: Using Salesforce tools to commit, analyze, validate, deploy and release changes.
• Perform Release Management activities.
• Design, implement, document and maintain Salesforce Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery pipelines.
• Maintain the configuration of Salesforce tools, document development lifecycle and deployment processes.
• Act as the Salesforce team’s Digital SDLC focal point for releases.
• Ensure QAP, RS, DCS, RTM, QASR and other committed deliverables are planned, maintained and completed where applicable.
• Support GxP/regulatory determination, risk profile inputs, traceability, test evidence and release readiness.
• Partner with Product Owners, QA/Compliance, Technical Business Analysts, Technical Delivery teams and Business Unit stakeholders.
• Promote automation such as Jira integration, test management integration, change automation, CI/CD evidence capture and compliance-as-code where appropriate. This is supported by Digital SDLC maturity guidance.
• Coaching and training colleagues.
• Adhering to Salesforce best practices.
• Perform Salesforce Administrator activities.
• Collaborating with IT and developers of other systems to integrate across the business.
• Supporting Salesforce development teams on a daily basis.
• Working closely with business, gathering requirements.
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Qualifications, Skills & Experience Required

• At least 3 years of Salesforce experience.
• At least 2 years of Salesforce DevOps experience using Salesforce DevOps tools such as Copado, Gearset or Flosum.
• Good understanding of git and branching