The Role
Manage Salesforce platform stability, sandbox lifecycles, release cycles, and metadata deployments. Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines, branching strategies, scratch orgs, test-data seeding, and automated quality and security gates. Coordinate Salesforce CLI, SFDX, package-based, and org-based deployments while resolving merge conflicts, dependency issues, and production deployment failures. The role requires significant Salesforce release management experience and specialized DevOps certification.
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This is a remote position.
Salesforce DevOps / Release Engineer
Job Details
- Employment Type: Contract
- Work Mode: Remote
- Location: Offshore
- Total Experience Required: 4 to 7 years
- Relevant Experience Required: 3+ years of dedicated experience managing Salesforce release cycles, environments, and CI/CD pipelines
- Mandatory Certification: Salesforce Certified Development Lifecycle and Deployment Designer
Job Summary
We are seeking a Salesforce DevOps & Release Engineer to manage our platform stability, sandbox architecture, and deployment lifecycles. The ideal candidate will build and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines, orchestrate metadata migrations, establish branching strategies, and minimize environment friction across multi-stream development teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, build, and optimize automated CI/CD pipelines specifically tailored for Salesforce metadata deployment using modern enterprise DevOps tooling.
- Manage the end-to-end sandbox lifecycle, including environment creation, standard and partial refreshes, data masking setups, and org alignment tracking.
- Establish and enforce source control branching models (e.g., GitFlow, trunk-based) to enable simultaneous, conflict-free multi-track development streams.
- Coordinate package-based and org-based deployments using Salesforce CLI, Salesforce DX (SFDX), and custom automated scripting.
- Automate code quality and security gates, integrating static code analysis engines (such as PMD, SonarQube, or Salesforce Code Analyzer) into build pipelines.
- Orchestrate scratch org structures and test-data seeding profiles to optimize automated execution runs within automated testing suites.
- Lead release triage efforts, resolving intricate metadata package merge conflicts, component dependency mismatches, and deployment failures across production drops.
Requirements
- 4 to 7 years of core DevOps or infrastructure orchestration experience, with 3+ dedicated years specifically driving release cycles on the Salesforce platform.
- Strong technical mastery of specialized Salesforce release management platforms (e.g., Copado, Gearset, Flosum) or cloud CI/CD infrastructure (e.g., GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins).
- Deep understanding of Git, Salesforce CLI commands, metadata API package structures, and the Salesforce DX platform architecture.
- Mandatory certification: Salesforce Certified Development Lifecycle and Deployment Designer.
Preferred Qualifications
- Salesforce Certified Administrator or Platform Developer I (PD1) certification.
- Prior scripting background using Bash, Python, or JavaScript to extend pipeline automation frameworks and custom deployment handling.
Skills Required
- 4 to 7 years of core DevOps or infrastructure orchestration experience
- 3+ years of dedicated experience managing Salesforce release cycles, environments, and CI/CD pipelines
- Salesforce Certified Development Lifecycle and Deployment Designer certification
- Strong mastery of Salesforce release management platforms such as Copado, Gearset, or Flosum, or cloud CI/CD infrastructure such as GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or Jenkins
- Deep understanding of Git, Salesforce CLI commands, Metadata API package structures, and Salesforce DX architecture
- Salesforce Certified Administrator or Platform Developer I certification
- Scripting experience with Bash, Python, or JavaScript
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The Company
What We Do
FyerX is a Bengaluru-based digital marketing agency that helps businesses strengthen their online presence and generate leads and sales. Its services span branding, logo and brand-guideline development, photography and video production, UI/UX design, website development, social media marketing, search engine optimization, email marketing, ecommerce marketing, and digital advertising across platforms such as Google, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube.
