Role Summary
We are seeking an experienced Salesforce DevSecOps Engineer with strong hands-on expertise in Copado to design, implement, and manage secure CI/CD pipelines across Salesforce environments. The role involves close collaboration with Salesforce developers, architects, QA, and release managers to ensure high-quality, secure, and compliant deployments across Sales, Service, and Marketing Cloud platforms.
Key Responsibilities
DevSecOps & Release Management
- Design, implement, and manage end-to-end Salesforce CI/CD pipelines using Copado.
- Drive branching strategies, user story-based deployments, and environment promotion using Copado.
- Manage Salesforce deployments across Dev, QA, UAT, Pre-Prod, and Production environments.
- Ensure zero/low-downtime deployments with rollback strategies and release governance.
- Automate deployment validation, code quality checks, and test execution.
Security & Compliance
- Embed security best practices into Salesforce CI/CD pipelines (DevSecOps approach).
- Ensure compliance with Salesforce security standards, code scanning, and vulnerability checks.
- Enforce access controls, deployment approvals, and audit trails within Copado.
- Collaborate with InfoSec teams to align deployments with enterprise security policies.
Source Control & Version Management
- Strong hands-on experience with Git-based repositories:
- GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Azure DevOps
- Manage branching, merging, conflict resolution, and version tagging.
- Enforce best practices for metadata management and source-driven development.
- Maintain repository hygiene and deployment consistency across teams.
Salesforce Platform Expertise
- Deep understanding of Salesforce Core Platform including:
- Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud (working knowledge)
- Apex, Lightning Web Components (LWC), Flows, Profiles, Permission Sets
- Support deployments for Apex classes, triggers, LWC, integrations, Flows, and metadata components.
- Coordinate deployments involving managed packages, integrations, and data migrations.
Agile & Collaboration
- Work closely with Agile/Scrum teams to support sprint-based releases.
- Participate in release planning, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
- Enable faster feedback cycles for developers through automation and tooling.
- Act as a bridge between development, QA, security, and operations teams.
Monitoring & Continuous Improvement
- Monitor deployment success rates, failure trends, and lead time metrics.
- Continuously optimize CI/CD pipelines for speed, reliability, and security.
- Provide guidance and best practices to Salesforce development teams.
Mandatory Skills & Qualifications
- 5+ years of overall Salesforce experience with strong DevOps exposure.
- Mandatory hands-on expertise in Copado (Admin & Advanced deployment features).
- Strong experience with Git, GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Azure DevOps.
- Deep knowledge of Salesforce Sales, Service, and Marketing Cloud.
- Experience with Salesforce metadata, SFDX, and source-driven development.
- Solid understanding of CI/CD, DevSecOps principles, and release governance.
- Strong exposure to Agile / Scrum methodologies.
- Ability to troubleshoot deployment failures and environment issues.