Salesforce Release Manager

Closeloop Technologies; India; Remote; INR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Part time

Job summary

Closeloop Technologies is seeking an experienced Salesforce DevOps professional for a part-time role (6 PM – 10 PM). You will own and coordinate the release lifecycle across development, staging, UAT, and production, focusing on Git-based workflows, environment readiness, and release governance.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of Salesforce experience, strong Git skills, and hands-on deployment automation with Gearset, Copado, or similar tools, plus excellent coordination in Agile Scrum teams.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of Salesforce experience with release management or DevOps.
• Hands-on with Git, PRs, branching, rebasing, and cherry-pick workflows.
• Experience across Salesforce deployment lifecycle and sandboxes.
• Familiar with Gearset or similar deployment automation.
• Knowledge of CI/CD tools (Copado, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins).
• Strong coordination and communication in Agile/Scrum teams.
• Must maintain 4-hour daily overlap with US Eastern Time.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end Salesforce release lifecycle across environments.
• Create and manage Git pull requests and branches per deployment.
• Coordinate deployments with Developers, QA, and Salesforce Admins.
• Maintain release calendars, risk logs, and post-release docs.
• Support CI/CD automation and troubleshoot deployment issues.

Skills

Salesforce DevOps

Git workflows

CI/CD pipelines

Agile/Scrum

Stakeholder comms

Release management

Deployment coordination

Tools

Gearset

Copado

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Job description

Employment Type: Part Time (6 PM -10 PM)

Role Overview

Own and coordinate the end-to-end Salesforce release lifecycle across development, staging, UAT, and production environments. This is a hands-on release management role focused on Git-based workflows, environment readiness, release governance, CI/CD support, and keeping sprint and staging branches aligned with the current production baseline to enable predictable and controlled deployments.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage Salesforce release planning, deployment scheduling, environment readiness, release governance, and deployment documentation across development, staging, UAT, and production environments.
• Create and manage Git pull requests, including creating pull requests on behalf of Salesforce Administrators when required.
• Create a new sprint branch following each successful production deployment and maintain disciplined branch lifecycle practices.
• Perform targeted defect-driven rollback using cherry-picking when QA or UAT validation fails and a rollback or fix is required.
• Regularly rebase sprint and staging branches to keep them aligned with the current production code and configuration baseline.
• Coordinate deployments, change management activities, and release validation with Developers, QA Engineers, Business Analysts, and Salesforce Administrators.
• Support Git-based CI/CD automation and troubleshoot metadata, dependency, merge, validation, and deployment issues across Salesforce environments.
• Maintain release calendars, implementation and rollback steps, deployment evidence, risk and dependency logs, and post-release status documentation.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies and communicate release risks, blockers, dependencies, and timing impacts promptly.

Required Skills & Experience

• 5+ years of Salesforce experience, including hands-on release management or Salesforce DevOps responsibilities.
• Strong working knowledge of Git, pull requests, branching strategies, rebasing, merge conflict resolution, and cherry-pick workflows.
• Hands-on experience with the Salesforce deployment lifecycle, environments and sandboxes, metadata dependencies, validation, and production release coordination.
• Experience with Salesforce DX and Git-based CI/CD pipelines.
• Hands-on experience with Gearset is strongly preferred; equivalent Salesforce deployment automation experience is acceptable.
• Experience with deployment automation tools and CI/CD platforms such as Copado, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins is beneficial.
• Strong coordination, documentation, troubleshooting, and stakeholder communication skills.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum teams and supporting sprint-based release cadences.
• Ability to maintain a minimum 4-hour daily overlap with U.S. Eastern Time business hours for standups, sprint ceremonies, release coordination, and real-time collaboration.

Certifications

• Gearset Certification or demonstrable advanced Gearset experience - Preferred
• Salesforce Platform Developer I - Preferred
• Work within Agile/Scrum methodology and actively participate in ceremonies appropriate to the role.
• Maintain clear documentation for work performed and promptly communicate material issues, risks, dependencies, and anticipated delays.
• Follow applicable security, access-control, confidentiality, privacy, and acceptable-use requirements.
• Adapt to changing priorities and assignments within the scope of the role while maintaining release quality and delivery discipline.