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Salesforce Platform Engineering / Senior Salesforce DevOps Engineer

Location: Chicago, IL - Hybrid (Onsite - Tuesday to Thursday)

Job Type: Contract

About the Role:

We are seeking an experienced Senior Salesforce DevOps Engineer to join a large-scale, enterprise Salesforce delivery organization operating with 10+ POD/Scrum teams. This role is critical to modernizing, stabilizing, and scaling our Salesforce DevOps practices on Azure DevOps. The ideal candidate will bring deep Salesforce CI/CD expertise, strong problem-solving skills, and a passion for engineering excellence. They will be responsible for diagnosing and resolving significant existing challenges in our release pipeline and driving long-term improvements across the DevOps lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities

Repository & Org Synchronization

- Establish and enforce a reliable, automated source of truth between Salesforce orgs and the Azure DevOps Git repository
- Design and implement processes to ensure Production org and Master branch are always in sync
- Eliminate code overwrite and rework caused by org/repo inconsistencies
- Architect org-from-repo deployment strategies to ensure environments are always created/refreshed from version-controlled source

Pipeline Optimization & Performance

- Redesign and optimize CI/CD pipelines to significantly reduce overall execution time (current baseline: 20–30 minutes for single-component deployments)
- Implement shallow clones, artifact caching, and incremental checkout strategies to address large repository sizes (~4.5GB)
- Introduce dedicated build agents/runners to eliminate shared-agent contention
- Optimize dependency installation, SonarQube, and SNYK scan execution within pipelines
- Implement Git delta deployment strategies (branch-to-branch comparison) for efficient, component-level deployments
- Reduce Apex test class execution time (current baseline: ~6 hours) through parallel test execution, test selection optimization, and test impact analysis strategies

Release Management & Multi-Train Support

- Design and manage DevOps processes supporting multiple release trains: Major Release (6-week), Short Sprint (2-week), Anytime/Micro, Hotfix, and Hypercare (1-week post-MR)
- Architect environment strategies to isolate different release streams — eliminating the risk of shared UAT environment conflicts across concurrent release tracks
- Establish clear environment promotion paths and minimize back-sync conflicts when syncing changes from Production
- Support increasing release frequency and volume with scalable, repeatable pipeline automation

Training & Knowledge Enablement:

- Bridge knowledge gaps across development teams in CI/CD tooling, conflict resolution, and DevOps best practices
- Develop and deliver training sessions, workshops, and documentation for Salesforce developers across POD teams
- Build a DevOps community of practice to share knowledge and standardize practices across the 10+ scrum teams

Required Qualifications:

- 5+ years of experience in Salesforce DevOps engineering, platform engineering, or release engineering
- Deep hands-on expertise with Azure DevOps (Pipelines, Repos, Boards, Artifacts)
- Strong experience with Salesforce DX (SFDX), Salesforce CLI, and metadata API-based deployments
- Proficiency in Git version control, branching strategies (GitFlow, trunk-based), and merge conflict resolution
- Experience with delta deployment tools (e.g., SFDX Git Delta, Copado, Gearset, or equivalent)
- Experience in establishing, building and maintaining DevOps process & Governance in a large enterprise Salesforce org (1000+ end users) delivery with 5+ POD/Scrum teams
- Hands-on experience with SonarQube and SNYK (or equivalent SAST/SCA tools) integration in CI/CD pipelines
- Experience managing Salesforce sandbox environments, refreshes, and org strategy design
- Strong scripting skills: Bash, Python, or PowerShell for pipeline automation
- Demonstrated experience supporting multi-team, multi-release-train delivery models
- Familiarity with feature flags / dark deployment patterns in Salesforce
- Strong understanding of Salesforce metadata types, component relationships, and dependency management

Key Challenges This Role Will Address:

This role has been specifically created to resolve critical pain points in our current DevOps Setup. The successful candidate will be expected to develop and execute a roadmap to address the following:
- Org/Repository synchronization gaps causing code overwrites and lack of a clear source of truth
- Developer productivity loss (20–30% of time on manual code migration)
- High pipeline complexity and steep learning curves for new teams
- Long pipeline execution times (~20–30 min per deployment in lower orgs)
- Slow, manual PR review and approval processes
- Difficulty executing hotfixes and anytime deployments
- Missing automated rollback mechanisms and unreliable cherry-pick revert strategies
- Shared UAT environment conflicts across multiple concurrent release trains
- Manual post-deployment validation steps for dark-deployed features
- Long Apex test suite execution times (~6 hours)
- Outdated/undeleted feature branches causing code conflicts
- Knowledge gaps and CI/CD literacy challenges across development teams
- QA/UAT sandbox refresh complexity with external system dependencies
- Component dependency identification and inter-relationship management

Success Metrics (First 12 Months):

- Pipeline execution time reduction ≥ 50% reduction from current baseline
- Developer time on code migration Reduced to < 5%
- Org/repo synchronization Process established and fully automated
- Automated rollback mechanism Implemented and tested
- Shared-environment deployment conflicts Zero conflicts across release trains
- POD team pipeline onboarding All 10+ teams on standardized templates
- Apex test execution time ≥ 40% reduction
- Post-deployment manual steps ≥ 80% reduction through automation