Senior Technical Consultant — Salesforce DevOps
Informatica3 days ago
Bengaluru, IndiaSenior
Responsibilities
- Partner with client stakeholders, Technical Architects, and migration track teams to define DevOps requirements, deliverables, release plans, and expectations.
- Assess and improve branching strategies, environment management, deployment models, quality gates, and release governance across migration engagements.
- Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for Salesforce environment provisioning, metadata deployment, testing, scanning, and promotion.
- Lead Salesforce DevOps setup and execution for small-to-medium migration waves, including pipeline design, environment provisioning, branching, quality gates, and production cutover.
- Translate multi-track solution designs into deployment pipelines, environment dependency sequences, and release governance procedures.
- Maintain the Salesforce environment pyramid from development through production, including automated promotion gates, sandbox refreshes, and environment health monitoring.
- Build cutover automation, validation checklists, smoke tests, health dashboards, reusable pipeline templates, custom GitHub Actions, SFDX utilities, and deployment manifests.
- Govern metadata versioning, ownership, conflict resolution, branching, release standards, and DevOps metrics across concurrent migration waves.
- Represent DevOps in Architecture Review Board sessions and provide enablement for Salesforce DX, Git workflows, pipelines, and local development environments.
- Integrate automated testing, static analysis, security scanning, secrets management, compliance gates, and performance monitoring into deployment pipelines.
Requirements
- At least 6 years of hands-on Salesforce platform experience focused on DevOps, release management, and CI/CD implementation.
- At least 3 years of dedicated Salesforce CI/CD pipeline design involving multi-org environment strategies, sandbox lifecycle automation, and metadata deployment pipelines.
- Expert proficiency with Salesforce DX, Salesforce CLI, Metadata API, Apex, SFDX project structure, source tracking, scratch orgs, .forceignore, and Tooling API.
- Hands-on Apex and Lightning Web Components experience sufficient to build Salesforce-based DevOps tools such as dashboards, validators, and environment monitors.
- Strong experience with Copado, Jenkins, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps Pipelines, GitHub, and Bitbucket, including complex multi-stage pipelines and secrets management.
- Deep knowledge of Salesforce sandbox lifecycle management, source-driven development, Change Sets, unlocked and managed 2GP packages, and Metadata API deployments.
- Experience with Salesforce test automation and performance tools including Provar, Copado Robotic Testing, TOSCA, Selenium, ApexUnit, and JMeter.
- Experience integrating PMD, ESLint, SonarQube, Checkmarx, or comparable static analysis and security scanning tools into CI pipelines.
- Experience with Docker and orchestration patterns for hermetic CI environments and multi-track deployment dependencies.
- Understanding of Vault, Azure Key Vault, GitHub Secrets, Salesforce Event Monitoring, CloudWatch, and Azure Monitor for security and observability integration.
- Experience leading DevOps delivery for small-to-medium Salesforce projects and supporting Technical Architects on large enterprise programs.
- Experience supporting concurrent multi-track delivery, executing go-live cutovers for at least two Salesforce migration or implementation programs, and creating reusable DevOps accelerators and governance standards.
- Salesforce Platform Developer I, Salesforce Certified DevOps Accredited Professional, and Salesforce Administrator certifications are required.
- Preferred qualifications include Salesforce Platform Developer II, Copado, Gearset, GitHub Actions, Salesforce Application Architect, Terraform or Pulumi, Salesforce Shield, Salesforce DevOps Center, Veracode, Salesforce CLI plugins, cross-cloud deployment, Mockaroo, Snowfakery, and Python scripting experience.
Benefits
- Salesforce states that its benefits and resources support balance and personal well-being.
- Salesforce is an equal opportunity employer and provides reasonable accommodations during the application and recruiting process.
- Salesforce uses artificial intelligence tools to assist with resume assessment, while humans make candidate selection and hiring decisions.
Categories
Solutions Engineering
About Informatica
Informatica (NYSE: INFA), a leader in AI-powered enterprise cloud data management, helps businesses unlock the full value of their data and AI. As data grows in complexity and volume, Informatica’s Intelligent Data Management Cloud™ delivers a complete, end-to-end platform with a suite of industry-leading, integrated solutions to connect, manage and unify data across any cloud, hybrid or multi-cloud environment. Powered by CLAIRE® AI, Informatica’s platform integrates natively with all major cloud providers, data warehouses and analytics tools— giving organizations the freedom of choice, avoiding vendor lock-in and delivering better ROI by enabling access to governed data, simplifying operations and scaling with confidence. Trusted by approximately 5,000 customers in nearly 100 countries—including over 80 of the Fortune 100—Informatica is the backbone of platform-agnostic, cloud data-driven transformation. Informatica. Where data and AI come to life.™ Contact: PR@informatica.com