Salesforce DevOps Architect

UNAVAILABLE; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

UNAVAILABLE seeks an experienced Salesforce DevOps Architect to design and manage scalable CI/CD processes across Salesforce environments. The role focuses on deployment reliability, release velocity, automated testing, and platform governance using Salesforce DX and Azure DevOps.

The ideal candidate combines hands-on Salesforce development with strong knowledge of Azure DevOps, source-driven development, and enterprise change management practices.

Qualifications

• 4+ years with the Salesforce platform.
• 2+ years hands-on Salesforce DevOps, release engineering, or CI/CD.
• Strong experience with the Microsoft Azure DevOps suite, including: Azure Pipelines, Azure Repos, Azure Boards, Azure Artifacts, Azure Test Plans.
• Experience creating and maintaining YAML-based Azure DevOps pipelines.
• Proficiency with Git, pull requests, branching strategies, and code-review workflows.
• Hands-on experience with Salesforce CLI, Salesforce DX, scratch orgs/sandboxes, and Metadata API.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain Salesforce CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps Pipelines.
• Manage Salesforce source code and branching strategies using Azure Repos and Git.
• Automate Salesforce metadata validation, deployment, testing, and promotion across environments.
• Support source-driven development using Salesforce CLI and DX tooling.
• Develop and maintain YAML-based build and release pipelines.
• Establish pull-request standards, approvals, and quality gates in CI/CD.
• Integrate Apex tests, code-coverage, static analysis, and security checks into pipelines.
• Coordinate releases across multiple Salesforce teams and environments.

Skills

Salesforce

Azure DevOps

CI/CD

Git workflows

Salesforce DX

Apex testing

Static code analysis

Security scanning

Education

Salesforce Platform Developer I/II or Admin certs

Azure DevOps Certification

Tools

Azure Pipelines

Azure Repos

Azure Boards

Azure Artifacts

Azure Test Plans

Salesforce CLI

Salesforce DX

Metadata API

Git

Job description

Overview

We are seeking an experienced Salesforce DevOps Architect to design, implement, and manage scalable CI/CD processes across our Salesforce environments. This role will be responsible for improving deployment reliability, release velocity, automated testing, environment management, and platform governance using Salesforce DX and the Microsoft Azure DevOps tool suite.The ideal candidate has hands-on Salesforce development experience combined with strong knowledge of Azure DevOps, source-driven development, release automation, and enterprise change-management practices.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain Salesforce CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps Pipelines.
• Manage Salesforce source code and branching strategies using Azure Repos and Git.
• Automate Salesforce metadata validation, deployment, testing, and promotion across development, integration, UAT, staging, and production environments.
• Use Salesforce CLI, Salesforce DX, Metadata API, and related tools to support source-driven development.
• Develop and maintain YAML-based build and release pipelines.
• Establish pull-request standards, approval processes, quality gates, and automated code-review checks.
• Integrate Apex tests, code-coverage validation, static code analysis, security scanning, and deployment validation into CI/CD pipelines.
• Coordinate releases across multiple Salesforce development teams and environments.
• Manage deployment dependencies, destructive changes, profiles, permission sets, custom metadata, and environment-specific configuration.
• Create and maintain release plans, deployment runbooks, rollback procedures, and technical documentation.
• Monitor pipeline performance, troubleshoot deployment failures, and identify opportunities to improve release reliability.
• Support sandbox strategy, environment refreshes, source synchronization, and release-branch management.
• Apply secure credential-management practices using Azure Key Vault, service connections, certificates, and connected apps.
• Partner with Salesforce architects, developers, testers, product owners, and security teams to implement consistent DevOps standards.
• Provide release metrics and reporting through Azure Boards, dashboards, and pipeline analytics.

Qualifications

Required

• 4+ years of experience working with the Salesforce platform.
• 2+ years of hands-on Salesforce DevOps, release engineering, or CI/CD experience.
• Strong experience with the Microsoft Azure DevOps suite, including:
  • Azure Pipelines
  • Azure Repos
  • Azure Boards
  • Azure Artifacts
  • Azure Test Plans or comparable testing tools
• Experience creating and maintaining YAML-based Azure DevOps pipelines.
• Proficiency with Git, pull requests, branching strategies, merge conflict resolution, and code-review workflows.
• Hands-on experience with Salesforce CLI, Salesforce DX project structure, scratch orgs or sandboxes, and Salesforce Metadata API.
• Experience deploying Apex, Lightning Web Components, Aura components, Flows, permission sets, custom metadata, and other Salesforce configuration.
• Understanding of Salesforce deployment dependencies and common metadata deployment limitations.
• Experience incorporating Apex testing and code-coverage requirements into automated pipelines.
• Ability to troubleshoot Salesforce validation, authentication, dependency, and deployment failures.
• Experience working within Agile delivery teams and structured release-management processes.
• Strong communication, documentation, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Preferred

• Salesforce Platform Developer I, Platform Developer II, or Salesforce Administrator certification.
• Microsoft Azure or Azure DevOps certification.
• Experience with unlocked packages, second-generation packaging, or modular Salesforce architecture.
• Experience with static-analysis tools such as Salesforce Code Analyzer, PMD, SonarQube, Checkmarx, or comparable products.
• Experience with automated testing tools such as Provar, Selenium, AccelQ, Copado Robotic Testing, or Playwright.
• Familiarity with Copado, Gearset, Flosum, AutoRABIT, or other Salesforce DevOps platforms.
• Experience supporting Salesforce Experience Cloud, Service Cloud, Sales Cloud, OmniStudio, or industry clouds.
• Knowledge of Azure Key Vault, Microsoft Entra ID, service principals, and enterprise secrets management.
• Experience supporting multiple Salesforce teams working concurrently within a shared release train.
• Familiarity with ITIL, change-control, separation-of-duties, and regulated-environment requirements.