Salesforce DevOps / Release Engineer

Zoho; India; Remote; INR 1,500,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Zoho in India seeks a Salesforce DevOps & Release Engineer to manage our platform stability, sandbox architecture, and deployment lifecycles. The role involves building and maintaining automated CI/CD pipelines, orchestrating metadata migrations, and minimizing environment friction across multi-stream development teams.

The ideal candidate has strong Salesforce DX experience, Git, Salesforce CLI, and a track record in release triage and scalable deployment management.

Qualifications

• 4 to 7 years of core DevOps or infrastructure orchestration experience, with 3+ dedicated years specifically driving release cycles on the Salesforce platform.
• Deep understanding of Git, Salesforce CLI commands, metadata API package structures, and the Salesforce DX platform architecture.
• Mandatory certification: Salesforce Certified Development Lifecycle and Deployment Designer.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and optimize automated CI/CD pipelines specifically tailored for Salesforce metadata deployment using modern enterprise DevOps tooling.
• Manage the end-to-end sandbox lifecycle, including environment creation, standard and partial refreshes, data masking setups, and org alignment tracking.
• Establish and enforce source control branching models (e.g., GitFlow, trunk-based) to enable simultaneous, conflict-free multi-track development streams.
• Orchestrate scratch org structures and test-data seeding profiles to optimize automated execution runs within automated testing suites.
• Lead release triage efforts, resolving intricate metadata package merge conflicts, component dependency mismatches, and deployment failures across production drops.

Skills

DevOps leadership

Collaboration

Problem solving

Tools

Git

Salesforce DX

Salesforce CLI

Metadata API

Job description

• Relevant Experience Required: 3+ years of dedicated experience managing Salesforce release cycles, environments, and CI/CD pipelines
  
• Mandatory Certification: Salesforce Certified Development Lifecycle and Deployment Designer

Job Summary

We are seeking a Salesforce DevOps & Release Engineer to manage our platform stability, sandbox architecture, and deployment lifecycles. The ideal candidate will build and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines, orchestrate metadata migrations, establish branching strategies, and minimize environment friction across multi-stream development teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and optimize automated CI/CD pipelines specifically tailored for Salesforce metadata deployment using modern enterprise DevOps tooling.
• Manage the end-to-end sandbox lifecycle, including environment creation, standard and partial refreshes, data masking setups, and org alignment tracking.
• Establish and enforce source control branching models (e.g., GitFlow, trunk-based) to enable simultaneous, conflict-free multi-track development streams.
• Orchestrate scratch org structures and test-data seeding profiles to optimize automated execution runs within automated testing suites.
• Lead release triage efforts, resolving intricate metadata package merge conflicts, component dependency mismatches, and deployment failures across production drops.

Requirements

• 4 to 7 years of core DevOps or infrastructure orchestration experience, with 3+ dedicated years specifically driving release cycles on the Salesforce platform.
• Deep understanding of Git, Salesforce CLI commands, metadata API package structures, and the Salesforce DX platform architecture.
• Mandatory certification: Salesforce Certified Development Lifecycle and Deployment Designer.

Preferred Qualifications

• Salesforce Certified Administrator or Platform Developer I (PD1) certification.