Salesforce DevOps Architect

**Job Category **:Customer Success Group

**Job Details**:
At Salesforce, the **DevOps Technical Architect **will be part of the Global Delivery Centre (GDC) within the Salesforce Professional Services organization. The GDC includes technical and functional domain experts who implement Salesforce products, to meet customer needs whilst demonstrating Salesforce standard processes.

This individual will play a strategic role by using their more technically oriented abilities to service and support clients during and post-launch. In this role, one must drive ongoing innovation and collaborate with our Customer Success teams using up-to-date programs and tools to assist our customers in achieving successful outcomes, and growing their business on the Salesforce platform.

**Your Impact**
- Analyzing, executing, and streamlining DevOps practices and facilitating the development process and automation.
- Review existing DevOps strategies and provide recommendations for improvement.
- Ideate, Solution, Present & Roll out ‘best-fit’ DevOps solution that takes into account customer & end-user needs while accounting for the tooling preferences & commercial landscape
- Gather requirements, design, and implement new DevOps strategies and architect overall, comprehensive and efficient practices.
- Design and implement CI/CD pipeline by enabling suitable DevOps channels across the organization.
- Design and write build scripts in scripting languages like perl, shell, or python.
- Design process/schedule to deliver completed development to various environments.
- Verify successful continuous delivery deployments to various environments.
- Design org and branching strategies and maintain version control repositories.
- Monitor and review continuous delivery validation build for failures.
- Guide developers and operations teams in case of an issue and resolve deployment issues with the team.
- Seek out and understand new technologies which can play a key role in the near future direction of our system, designed using modern technologies and approaches to provide orchestration and relevant tooling to allow fast development and deployment.
- Proactively collaborate across multiple teams in the organization to ensure that the requirements are captured and met by tooling provided
- Developing the POCs to demonstrate the viability of new ideas and technologies to support the innovation
- Ability to manage teams with a leadership mindset.

**Required Skills/Experience**
- 10+ years of experience in software development with a strong automation approach.
- Strong understanding of version control (git), branching & merging strategies, and build setup.
- Programming and scripting abilities across a range of languages e.g. Ruby, Java, Go, Python, etc.
- Continuous integration/continuous delivery tools - Jenkins/Jenkins Pipelines, Gitlab, CircleCI, Sauce Labs, and Nexus.
- Experience with build automation tools such as Maven, and Grunt or Gulp
- In-depth understanding of software configuration management (Chef) and release management
- Docker image building, maintenance, orchestration, and pipelining.
- Experience in AWS infrastructure (EC2, VPC, IAM, and CloudWatch, etc) and related automation tooling
- Experience with test automation skills - TestNG, Selenium, Web Driver, JUnit, JMeter, and ApexUnit testing frameworks
- Experience in setting up handling code quality tools such as SonarQube
- Good knowledge and hands-on experience on Linux based operating systems with experience in bash scripting
- An organized way of working, with the ability to consider multiple issues in parallel and prioritize them appropriately
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Technology or equivalent experience

**Preferred Requirements**
- Deep understanding of DevOps standard processes, version control, and CI/CD
- Hands-on experience with Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or other CI/CD tools
- Experience in handling salesforce metadata/environment/sandbox management
- Experience in building a proven CI/CD pipeline for Salesforce code & metadata

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