Senior Salesforce DevOps Engineer – Copado Lead

Becton Dickinson NA; Florida; On-site; USD 118,000 - 189,000; Full time

Job summary

BD is seeking a Staff DevOps Engineer to lead Salesforce DevOps, optimize Copado-based release management, and drive CI/CD maturity across multiple Salesforce orgs. You will partner with software engineering, QA, architecture, and business teams to ensure secure, scalable deployments in a complex enterprise environment.

The role requires deep hands-on expertise, ownership, and accountability, with responsibilities spanning release governance, environment management, and long-term DevOps roadmaps

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of experience in software development, DevOps engineering, release engineering, or application lifecycle management.
• 5+ years of hands-on Salesforce platform experience supporting enterprise-scale implementations.
• Expert-level experience administering and implementing Copado within complex Salesforce environments.
• Expert-level knowledge of Salesforce deployment methodologies, metadata management, environment strategies, and release management best practices.
• Advanced experience supporting Salesforce Health Cloud, Service Cloud, and Experience Cloud environments.
• Strong experience supporting Salesforce Commerce Cloud deployment processes and release management workflows.
• Expert-level knowledge of Azure DevOps repositories, branching strategies, pull request workflows, and source control management.
• Deep understanding of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) methodologies including Agile, Scrum, DevOps, and release governance practices.
• Experience managing CI/CD pipelines across multiple environments, teams, and application platforms.
• Strong understanding of Git-based source control concepts, branching models, merge strategies, and version management.
• Demonstrated experience developing DevOps roadmaps and implementing continuous improvement initiatives.
• Experience working across multiple technical teams, external vendors, and business stakeholders.
• Willingness and ability to participate in after-hours deployments, production support, and release activities.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary owner and technical authority for Salesforce DevOps practices, processes, tools, and release management activities.
• Administer, configure, maintain, and optimize Copado as the enterprise DevOps platform supporting Salesforce development and deployment activities.
• Design, implement, and continuously improve CI/CD pipelines supporting Salesforce Health Cloud, Service Cloud, Experience Cloud, Commerce Cloud, and related platform integrations.
• Manage and support complex deployment workflows across multiple Salesforce organizations, environments, and release streams.
• Define and implement release governance, deployment standards, branching strategies, code promotion processes, and DevOps best practices.
• Partner with development teams to ensure consistent adoption of SDLC processes and release management standards.
• Lead Salesforce DevOps governance by partnering with Salesforce Administrators and technical teams to mature source control adoption, deployment automation, environment management, change management, and release processes across the Salesforce ecosystem.
• Support daily operational requests related to deployments, environment management, source control, release planning, and production support activities.
• Develop and execute a long-term roadmap for Salesforce DevOps maturity, automation, platform stability, and operational excellence.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives that increase deployment reliability, reduce manual effort, and improve developer productivity.
• Support source code management and repository administration utilizing Azure DevOps and related tools.
• Collaborate with software engineering, architecture, QA, infrastructure, security, and business stakeholders to align DevOps capabilities with organizational objectives.
• Establish and maintain environment management strategies, release schedules, deployment runbooks, and operational procedures.
• Monitor deployment performance, platform health, release quality, and DevOps metrics to identify opportunities for improvement.
• Troubleshoot and resolve deployment issues, environment conflicts, source control challenges, and pipeline failures.
• Evaluate new technologies, tools, and platform capabilities that can improve software delivery performance and operational effectiveness.
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and guidance related to DevOps methodologies, release management, and CI/CD best practices.
• Participate in production releases, release rehearsals, system maintenance activities, and after-hours deployments as required.
• Ensure compliance with organizational security, audit, change management, and regulatory requirements.

Skills

Salesforce DevOps

Copado

Azure DevOps

CI/CD pipelines

SDLC methodologies

Git source control

Agile/Scrum

Platform automation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Equivalent practical experience

Tools

Azure DevOps

Git

Job description

BD is seeking a Staff DevOps Engineer to lead Salesforce DevOps, optimize Copado-based release management, and drive CI/CD maturity across multiple Salesforce orgs. You will partner with software engineering, QA, architecture, and business teams to ensure secure, scalable deployments in a complex enterprise environment.

The role requires deep hands-on expertise, ownership, and accountability, with responsibilities spanning release governance, environment management, and long-term DevOps roadmaps