Salesforce Release Management

Salesforce Platform / DevOps Engineer – Responsibilities

Act as the primary administrator for Salesforce Production and Full Sandbox environments.

Design, maintain, and optimize Salesforce CI/CD pipelines (Git-based) to automate metadata deployments and reduce manual release effort.

Manage source control, branching strategy, and merge coordination in collaboration with Salesforce developers.

Own environment and sandbox strategy, including refresh planning, AppExchange package installations, storage management, data archiving, and non-production data cleanup.

Enforce code quality and deployment readiness by ensuring Apex tests, static code analysis (PMD/CodeScan), and sandbox validations are completed prior to releases.

Lead Salesforce release management, including deployments, cutover activities, rollback planning, and platform upgrade readiness.

Manage Salesforce security and access controls, including SSO, BYOK, certificates, connected apps, access reviews, and compliance with organizational security standards.

Support user provisioning, IDMS integration, and Infosec reviews and assessments.

Implement and maintain backup, recovery, and rollback strategies to ensure business continuity.

Monitor org health, performance, storage, and system limits, and drive corrective actions based on platform metrics.

Administer and support platform tools and admin orgs and identify opportunities to automate operational tasks.

Handle data operations, including imports, exports, deduplication, translations, and backups.

Manage global org-level settings and picklists.

Maintain platform-level documentation, technical guidelines, and metadata inventories.

Assist with Salesforce license usage analysis and cost optimization.

Troubleshoot complex Salesforce platform issues related to security, performance, access, and elevated permissions.

Collaborate closely with Salesforce Admins, Developers, and cross-functional teams.