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Salesforce DevOps Lead

Reading
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Salesforce DevOps Lead
Location: Reading
Salary: Up to £75,000 per annum (depending on experience)
Working Model: Hybrid - 2 days in the office per week
Type: Permanent, full-time

About the Role:
Our client is looking for a highly skilled and experienced Salesforce DevOps Lead to join their growing Digital Transformation team. This role plays a key part in shaping and implementing DevOps best practices across the Salesforce platform, ensuring stability, scalability, and security while driving automation and continuous improvement.

You'll define and implement CI/CD pipelines, enhance developer workflows, and lead initiatives to improve platform performance and reliability. This position requires strong technical expertise in Salesforce DevOps, CI/CD tools, environment management, and automation, as well as the ability to collaborate across multiple teams to deliver seamless deployments and robust systems.

Key Responsibilities

DevOps Strategy & Implementation

Develop and implement DevOps strategies for the Salesforce platform.
Define best practices for CI/CD, release management, and automated testing.
Enhance deployment automation to support Salesforce solutions.CI/CD Pipeline Management

Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for Salesforce development.
Ensure conflict-free and automated deployments with minimal downtime.
Continuously monitor and improve pipeline efficiency.Environment & Release Management

Manage Salesforce environments, ensuring consistency across development, testing, and production.
Establish and enforce version control strategies.
Oversee release schedules to ensure incident-free deployments with minimal business impact.Infrastructure & Security

Implement security best practices, including role-based access control and compliance monitoring.
Work closely with security teams to mitigate risks and enforce governance policies.
Optimise performance and scalability of Salesforce infrastructure.Monitoring & Incident Management

Establish monitoring and logging solutions for proactive issue detection.
Respond to production incidents, conduct root cause analysis, and implement preventive measures.
Collaborate with platform teams to resolve performance bottlenecks.Automation & Continuous Improvement

Identify opportunities to automate manual processes within the Salesforce estate.
Lead efforts to enhance development workflows and manage code across projects and teams.

What You'll Bring

Proven experience in Salesforce development and DevOps.
Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools such as Git, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Bitbucket, or Copado.
Expertise in Salesforce deployment strategies, including change sets, Salesforce DX, and metadata API.
Strong understanding of version control and branching strategies.
Experience with automation frameworks for testing and deployment.
Experience working in agile and DevOps environments.
Strong experience with Salesforce DX, CLI, and automation tools.
Proficiency in APEX, Visualforce, LWC, and JavaScript.
Experience in Salesforce API integration (REST, SOAP, Platform Events).
Demonstrated experience in Agile and DevOps frameworks.
Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code (IaC) and scripting languages such as Python or Shell.
Experience with microservices architecture, integration/middleware, source control, CI/CD deployment, and security.
Salesforce certifications such as Salesforce DevOps Specialist, Salesforce Administrator, or Salesforce Platform Developer.

Desirable Experience

Previous experience in the utilities industry.
Knowledge of Salesforce CPQ, Commerce Cloud, Service Cloud, and Field Service.
Experience with test automation tools.
Familiarity with VRA or OwnBackup.
Experience with cloud-based infrastructure services such as AWS or Azure.
Previous involvement in digital transformation projects.

Desirable Technical Skills & Qualifications

Understanding of Salesforce security best practices.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with confidence presenting to senior stakeholders and translating technical concepts for non-technical audiences.What's in it for You

Competitive salary up to £75,000 per annum (depending on experience).
26 days of annual leave (rising to 30 with length of service) plus bank holidays.
Performance-related pay plan tied to company and individual success.
Generous pension scheme through AON.
A wide range of benefits to support health, wellbeing, and financial security - including annual health MOTs, physiotherapy, counselling, Cycle to Work schemes, shopping vouchers, and life assurance

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