UK remote
Salesforce DevOps Engineer
About this role
Anticipated Contract End Date/Length: Approximately 3 months Work Setup: Hybrid (60% in office, 40% remote) Clearance Required: BPSS eligibility Our client in the Information Technology and Services industry is looking for a Salesforce DevOps Engineer to enable the efficient, reliable, and secure delivery of Salesforce solutions through the adoption of DevOps principles, automation, and best-practice release management processes.
Working closely with Salesforce developers, administrators, architects, testers, and business stakeholders, the successful candidate will support the end-to-end software development lifecycle across the Salesforce platform. The role will play a key part in accelerating deployment automation, release management, environment support, and Salesforce platform delivery activities. The successful candidate will design and maintain CI/CD pipelines, manage Salesforce environments, improve deployment processes, and ensure changes are delivered consistently and effectively across development, testing, and production environments, with a strong focus on continuous improvement, platform stability, governance, and operational excellence.
What you will do: Design, implement, maintain, and optimise Salesforce CI/CD pipelines to support automated and repeatable deployments. Accelerate deployment automation by reducing manual processes and improving delivery efficiency across Salesforce environments. Support and coordinate Salesforce release management activities to ensure releases are planned, tested, approved, and deployed successfully. Manage the movement of Salesforce metadata, configuration, and code across multiple environments using established DevOps practices.
Provide ongoing environment support, including provisioning, refreshes, issue resolution, and maintenance activities. Collaborate with development, testing, and business teams to align deployment and release activities with project objectives and delivery schedules. Maintain and administer version control repositories, branching strategies, and source-driven development processes. Monitor and enhance deployment performance to improve reliability, quality, and speed of delivery.
Support change management and governance processes to ensure deployments comply with organisational standards, security requirements, and audit controls. Troubleshoot deployment issues, environment challenges, and release-related incidents to minimise business impact. Develop and maintain technical documentation, deployment procedures, and operational standards. Promote DevOps best practices and continuous improvement initiatives across Salesforce delivery teams.