Staff DevOps Engineer, Salesforce

Becton Dickinson; Town of Florida (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

BD is actively seeking a Staff DevOps Engineer to lead Salesforce DevOps initiatives across a multi-org Salesforce environment. The role requires deep technical expertise, ownership, and a proactive mindset to drive efficiency and reduce risk in deployment pipelines and release processes.

You will partner with software engineering, QA, architecture, and business teams to deliver reliable, scalable, and secure solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of experience in software development, DevOps engineering, release engineering, or ALM.
• 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.

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 maturing source control adoption, deployment automation, environment management, change management, and release processes across Salesforce ecosystem.

Skills

Salesforce DevOps

CI/CD pipelines

Release management

Azure DevOps

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Copado

Azure DevOps

Job description

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BD is one of the largest global medical technology companies in the world. Advancing the world of health is our Purpose, and it's no small feat. It takes the imagination and passion of all of us-from design and engineering to the manufacturing and marketing of our billions of MedTech products per year-to look at the impossible and find transformative solutions that turn dreams into possibilities.

Job Description

Summary:

The Staff DevOps Engineer will serve as the organization's subject matter expert for Salesforce DevOps, leading the strategic direction, operational support, and continuous optimization of our deployment pipelines, release processes, and development workflows. This individual will work independently, partner closely with software engineering, quality assurance, architecture, product, Salesforce administration, and business teams, and ensure the delivery of reliable, scalable, and secure solutions across a complex multi-org Salesforce environment.

Success in this role requires deep technical expertise, strong ownership, exceptional accountability, and a proactive mindset focused on driving efficiency, reducing risk, improving release velocity, and advancing DevOps maturity across the enterprise. Expectations in this Staff level role include strong troubleshooting, analytical, communication, and organizational skills, proven ability to work independently with minimal supervision while managing multiple priorities and demonstrated history of ownership, accountability, and reliable execution of critical operational responsibilities.

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.

Minimum Required

• 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 Healt