Salesforce Security Specialist

Job Title: Salesforce Security Specialist.
Location: San Antonio, TX (Remote).
Employment Type: Contract (W2 through Zip Staff — No C2C or 1099) - 3 week assignment.

Zip Staff is seeking a Salesforce Security Specialist to lead security assessments of Salesforce environments for a leading financial services organization.

The role runs the review, performs the hands-on checks, and signs off every finding that goes to the client. The specialist is the senior technical voice in front of client security, platform, and leadership teams. This assignment is a three-week security review covering two Salesforce orgs (an established org with accumulated technical debt and a new Financial Services Cloud org approaching launch), the Okta sign-in path into both orgs, and roughly a dozen integrations that run through AWS Lambda.

All work is read-only in production, with anything hands-on done in a sandbox. This is a remote role.

• Lead end-to-end Salesforce security assessments, including planning, execution, and sign-off of findings.
• Perform hands-on checks of identity and sign-in configurations (Okta to Salesforce).
• Review integrations and related AWS components (including Lambda).
• Assess permissions, sharing models, and code for security risks.
• Evaluate logging and response capabilities.
• Prepare clear reporting and communicate findings to client security, platform, and leadership teams.
• Serve as the senior technical voice throughout the review process.

• Proven experience leading Salesforce security assessments.
• 5+ years of hands-on Salesforce security experience, including leading or owning security assessments, identity configurations (Okta or equivalent), and permissions/sharing reviews.
• Strong hands-on knowledge of Identity and sign-in configurations (Okta to Salesforce).
• Experience reviewing integrations and AWS components (including Lambda).
• Deep understanding of Salesforce permissions, sharing, and code security.
• Experience with logging and response in Salesforce environments.
• Strong reporting and client communication skills.
• Ability to act as the senior technical authority in front of client security, platform, and leadership teams.
• Experience with Financial Services Cloud or complex multi-org Salesforce environments is strongly preferred.
• Ability to work fully remote.

• Prior experience conducting security reviews of Financial Services Cloud orgs.
• Hands-on experience with technical debt assessment in established Salesforce environments.
• Familiarity with read-only production review processes and sandbox-based validation.
• Background supporting financial services or regulated industry Salesforce security assessments.

• Health Insurance.
• Dental Insurance.
• Vision Insurance.
• 401(k) + 401(k) matching.
• Paid time off.
• Referral Program.

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