Salesforce DevOps Architect - CI/CD & Azure Pipelines

Steampunk; Bloomington (IL); On-site; USD 80,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

Steampunk is hiring an experienced Salesforce DevOps Architect to design, implement, and manage scalable CI/CD processes across Salesforce environments. You will improve deployment reliability, release velocity, automated testing, environment management, and platform governance using Salesforce DX and Azure DevOps.

The role requires hands-on Salesforce development expertise and strong skills in Azure DevOps, source-driven development, release automation, and enterprise change management.

Qualifications

• 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.

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.

Skills

Salesforce platform

Azure DevOps

CI/CD pipelines

Git & PRs

Agile delivery

Release engineering

Tools

Azure Pipelines

Azure Repos

Azure Boards

Azure Artifacts

Azure Test Plans

Salesforce CLI

Salesforce DX

Metadata API

Job description

Steampunk is hiring an experienced Salesforce DevOps Architect to design, implement, and manage scalable CI/CD processes across Salesforce environments. You will improve deployment reliability, release velocity, automated testing, environment management, and platform governance using Salesforce DX and Azure DevOps.

The role requires hands-on Salesforce development expertise and strong skills in Azure DevOps, source-driven development, release automation, and enterprise change management.