Principal Salesforce DevOps Engineer​/DevOps Lead

Job Title:
Principal Salesforce Dev Ops Engineer / Dev Ops Lead

Location: Tysons Corner, VA (Hybrid / Remote)

Employment Type: Full-Time

We are seeking a highly experienced Principal Salesforce Dev Ops Engineer / Dev Ops Lead to design, establish, and implement the Dev Ops architecture and CI/CD framework supporting a large-scale Salesforce Health Cloud platform
.
This is a highly hands-on engineering role
.

The successful candidate will be responsible for establishing the Git-based development model, repository strategy, branching approach, CI/CD pipelines, environment promotion processes, deployment automation, and engineering standards used by multiple Salesforce development teams.
The immediate priority is to evaluate the existing Salesforce Dev Ops approach and establish a more scalable, developer-friendly Git Hub/Git Lab-based CI/CD model
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including the potential transition from Salesforce-specific deployment tools such as Flosum, Gearset, or Copado to custom automated pipelines.
This role requires someone who has personally architected and built enterprise CI/CD pipelines
,
not simply managed releases or coordinated deployment activities.

• Design and implement the overall Salesforce Dev Ops and CI/CD architecture
  .
• Establish Git-based source control and repository structures supporting Salesforce development teams.
• Build YAML-based CI/CD pipelines using Git Hub Actions, Git Lab CI/CD, or similar technologies
  .
• Develop reusable scripts, workflows, and automation supporting Salesforce deployments.
• Establish appropriate branching, pull request, merging, validation, and code promotion processes
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• Automate deployments across Development, QA, SIT, UAT, Staging, and Production environments
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• Design the Dev Ops approach for a multi-org, multi-application Salesforce environment
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• Establish appropriate Salesforce sandbox and environment strategies for multiple development teams.
• Address developer productivity issues including merge conflicts, overwritten changes, code synchronization, and parallel development
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• Evaluate the existing use of Flosum, Gearset, Copado, and Salesforce-native deployment capabilities and recommend the appropriate long-term Dev Ops approach.
• Lead the transition from the current deployment model toward a standardized Git-centric engineering model
  .
• Build automation using Salesforce CLI (SF CLI) for validation, testing, metadata deployment, and environment promotion.
• Establish automated quality gates including code validation, automated testing, deployment validation, and approval workflows.
• Support Salesforce metadata and configuration deployments across multiple environments and organizations.
• Establish processes for delta/incremental deployments
  ,
  dependency management, rollback, hotfixes, and production recovery.
• Integrate automated testing into the CI/CD pipeline and help establish the organization's test automation framework
  .
• Develop reusable pipeline components and standardized workflows that can support additional Salesforce applications and organizations.
• Troubleshoot complex Salesforce deployment, Git, pipeline, metadata, and environment issues.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership and guidance to senior Salesforce engineers.
• Define Dev Ops standards, documentation, governance, and engineering best practices while remaining actively involved in implementation.

We are looking for someone who can actually set up the repository, developer feature-branch process, and pipeline all the way through production
,
rather than merely define the strategy.

• Extensive experience as a Senior, Lead, Principal, or Architect-level Dev Ops Engineer
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• Strong hands-on experience designing and building CI/CD pipelines from the ground up
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• Strong experience supporting Salesforce development and deployment environments
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• Experience with Salesforce Health Cloud or other enterprise Salesforce Cloud platforms
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• Advanced experience with Git Hub and/or Git Lab
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• Hands-on experience building Git Hub Actions and/or Git Lab CI/CD pipelines
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• Strong experience developing YAML-based CI/CD workflows
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• Strong experience with Git including:
  • Repository architecture
  • Feature branching
  • Pull requests
  • Merging
  • Version control
  • Conflict resolution
  • Branch protection and governance
• Hands-on experience with Salesforce CLI / SF CLI and Salesforce deployment automation.
• Strong understanding of Salesforce metadata, Apex, Flows, configuration, dependencies, and deployment processes
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• Experience designing pipelines supporting multiple environments…