Salesforce DevOps Lead

Salesforce DevOps Lead
Location: Reading
Salary: Up to £75,000 per annum (depending on experience)
Working Model: Hybrid - 2 days in the office per week
Type: Permanent, full-time

About the Role:
Our client is looking for a highly skilled and experienced Salesforce DevOps Lead to join their growing Digital Transformation team. This role plays a key part in shaping and implementing DevOps best practices across the Salesforce platform, ensuring stability, scalability, and security while driving automation and continuous improvement.

You'll define and implement CI/CD pipelines, enhance developer workflows, and lead initiatives to improve platform performance and reliability. This position requires strong technical expertise in Salesforce DevOps, CI/CD tools, environment management, and automation, as well as the ability to collaborate across multiple teams to deliver seamless deployments and robust systems.

Key Responsibilities

DevOps Strategy & Implementation

• Develop and implement DevOps strategies for the Salesforce platform.
• Define best practices for CI/CD, release management, and automated testing.
• Enhance deployment automation to support Salesforce solutions.

CI/CD Pipeline Management

• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for Salesforce development.
• Ensure conflict-free and automated deployments with minimal downtime.
• Continuously monitor and improve pipeline efficiency.

Environment & Release Management

• Manage Salesforce environments, ensuring consistency across development, testing, and production.
• Establish and enforce version control strategies.
• Oversee release schedules to ensure incident-free deployments with minimal business impact.

Infrastructure & Security

• Implement security best practices, including role-based access control and compliance monitoring.
• Work closely with security teams to mitigate risks and enforce governance policies.
• Optimise performance and scalability of Salesforce infrastructure.

Monitoring & Incident Management

• Establish monitoring and logging solutions for proactive issue detection.
• Respond to production incidents, conduct root cause analysis, and implement preventive measures.
• Collaborate with platform teams to resolve performance bottlenecks.

Automation & Continuous Improvement

• Identify opportunities to automate manual processes within the Salesforce estate.
• Lead efforts to enhance development workflows and manage code across projects and teams.

What You'll Bring

• Proven experience in Salesforce development and DevOps.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools such as Git, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Bitbucket, or Copado.
• Expertise in Salesforce deployment strategies, including change sets, Salesforce DX, and metadata API.
• Strong understanding of version control and branching strategies.
• Experience with automation frameworks for testing and deployment.
• Experience working in agile and DevOps environments.

• Strong experience with Salesforce DX, CLI, and automation tools.
• Proficiency in APEX, Visualforce, LWC, and JavaScript.
• Experience in Salesforce API integration (REST, SOAP, Platform Events).
• Demonstrated experience in Agile and DevOps frameworks.
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code (IaC) and scripting languages such as Python or Shell.
• Experience with microservices architecture, integration/middleware, source control, CI/CD deployment, and security.
• Salesforce certifications such as Salesforce DevOps Specialist, Salesforce Administrator, or Salesforce Platform Developer.

Desirable Experience

• Previous experience in the utilities industry.
• Knowledge of Salesforce CPQ, Commerce Cloud, Service Cloud, and Field Service.
• Experience with test automation tools.
• Familiarity with VRA or OwnBackup.
• Experience with cloud-based infrastructure services such as AWS or Azure.
• Previous involvement in digital transformation projects.

Desirable Technical Skills & Qualifications

• Understanding of Salesforce security best practices.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with confidence presenting to senior stakeholders and translating technical concepts for non-technical audiences.

What's in it for You

• Competitive salary up to £75,000 per annum (depending on experience).
• 26 days of annual leave (rising to 30 with length of service) plus bank holidays.
• Performance-related pay plan tied to company and individual success.
• Generous pension scheme through AON.
• A wide range of benefits to support health, wellbeing, and financial security - including annual health MOTs, physiotherapy, counselling, Cycle to Work schemes, shopping vouchers, and life assurance.