Salesforce Devops Specialist

Description:

We are looking for a Salesforce DevOps Specialist who wants to join a team that works hard, has fun, and makes a difference in the market. You need to love challenges, be curious to learn, and aspire to make great things happen. If this is you, we want to hear about your experience, achievements, and vision that will carry our business forward.

Responsibilities:

• Create, modify and maintain of CI/CD pipeline based on project and operational requirements

• Provide recommendations for code branching strategies to ensure integrity of development pipeline

• Perform all releases, strictly adhering to the team’s Software Development Lifecycle and definition of done

• Perform any necessary roll-backs and assists in trouble-shooting where release is deemed to be root cause of a service affecting incident

• Create and maintain automated regression tests using the devops tooling

• Work with teams on defect detection

• Prepare all Salesforce product releases including identifying timing, working with Product Owner to schedule activities around testing compatibility and prepares environments to comply with release cycles

• Work with InfoSec to ensure any DevSecOps expectations are met within the pipeline

• Ensure that backup and recovery strategies and procedures are in place, tested and documented for the platform (DR & BCP strategies)

• Ensure backups are performed

• Identify and recommend technical and operational improvements resulting in improved reliability and/or efficiencies in maintaining and/or developing the application.

• Complete regular internal system audits and prepare for upgrades.

• Carry out deployments and support the platform.

• Participate in various Agile/Scrum meetings including participation in estimation and ensuring quality of user stories and tasks to meet expected outcomes.

Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology or Software Engineering or a combination of education and equivalent work experience.

• 2 + years of experience in a comparable role

• Experience with respect to Salesforce Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, and Experience Cloud

• Experience with GearSet, Copado or a similar DevOps enablement tool used for Salesforce

• Demonstrated experience with respect to code branching practices

• Knowledge of Vlocity (Salesforce Industries products) is preferred

• Experience with automated test suite products

• Solid understanding of operational best practices with respect to DR and BCP strategies

• Demonstrated experience delivering products in Agile/Scrum mode.

Additional Knowledge /Skill Requirements:

• Experience with Salesforce DevOps tooling (GearSet, Copado, etc) and processes

• Fluent with the primary Salesforce.com programmatic technologies: Apex, SOQL/SOSL, Visualforce, and Lightning Components an asset.

• Fluent with Vlocity employed development methods and techniques -data raptors and omniscripting an asset.

• Understanding APIs, REST, and SOAP services is an asset.

• Ability to interpret existing code for the purpose of detecting potential conflicts and trouble-shooting between environments to resolution.

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and planning skills.

• Excellent written and spoken communication skills; can effectively communicate with a non-technical audience.