Salesforce DevOps / Release Engineer - Remote

Company Overview

Req ID: 397030

NTT DATA strives to hire exceptional, innovative and passionate individuals who want to grow with us. If you want to be part of an inclusive, adaptable, and forward-thinking organization, apply now.

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced Salesforce DevOps / Release Engineer to manage end-to-end Salesforce releases, CI/CD automation, environment management, and production support. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in Copado, Salesforce DX, Git, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, and Salesforce deployment best practices.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead release planning, validation, deployment, production cutovers, and post-deployment support across Dev, QA, UAT, and Production environments.
• Design, implement, and optimize CI/CD pipelines for Salesforce metadata, code, configurations, and Vlocity/OmniStudio components.
• Manage Copado user stories, commits, validations, promotions, back-promotions, deployment pipelines, and release governance.
• Define and enforce Git branching strategies, pull requests, code reviews, tagging, and version-control standards.
• Resolve deployment failures, merge conflicts, test-class errors, metadata dependencies, and environment synchronization issues.
• Manage sandbox strategy, org refreshes, post-refresh configurations, back-promotions, and environment alignment.
• Coordinate code freezes, defect prioritization, release communications, go-live activities, and hotfix deployments.
• Build release dashboards, deployment reports, audit documentation, and release runbooks.
• Collaborate with developers, QA teams, architects, product owners, and business stakeholders.
• Train development and QA teams on Copado, Git workflows, and deployment troubleshooting.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Salesforce DevOps, release management, CI/CD engineering, or Salesforce administration.
• Strong hands-on experience with Copado and Salesforce CI/CD pipeline implementation.
• Strong knowledge of Salesforce CLI, Salesforce DX, Metadata API, source-format deployments, and deployment validation.
• Experience with Git, GitHub, Bitbucket, Gerrit, Azure Repos, branching strategies, and merge conflict resolution.
• Experience managing Salesforce sandboxes, environment strategy, refreshes, deployments, and production releases.
• Experience supporting Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Experience Cloud, Salesforce CPQ, and Vlocity/OmniStudio.
• Strong troubleshooting, documentation, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.

Technical Skills

• DevOps Tools: Copado, Gearset, Flosum, Salesforce DevOps Center, Opsera.
• CI/CD: Jenkins, Kokoro, Azure DevOps, AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild, and CodeCommit.
• Deployment: Salesforce CLI, Metadata API, Change Sets, Workbench, Salesforce Inspector, and Data Loader.
• Vlocity: IDX Workbench, OmniScripts, DataRaptors, Integration Procedures, and FlexCards.
• Infrastructure: AWS EC2, IAM, S3, RDS, VPC, Ansible, Docker, and Shell scripting.
• Quality Tools: SonarQube, PMD, static code analysis, Salesforce Reports, and Dashboards.
• Project Tools: Jira, Agile/Scrum, and Kanban.

Preferred Qualifications

• Salesforce Administrator and Copado certifications.
• Gearset, Flosum, or Opsera certifications.
• Experience with Jenkins Groovy scripting, Maven, Nexus Repository Manager, and AWS automation.
• Experience supporting secure, regulated, or audit-driven Salesforce release environments.

About NTT DATA

NTT DATA is a $30 billion trusted global innovator of business and technology services. We serve 75% of the Fortune Global 100 and are committed to helping clients innovate, optimize and transform for long term success. As a Global Top Employer, we have diverse experts in more than 50 countries and a robust partner ecosystem of established and start-up companies. Our services include business and technology consulting, data and artificial intelligence, industry solutions, as well as the development, implementation and management of applications, infrastructure and connectivity. We are one of the leading providers of digital and AI infrastructure in the world. NTT DATA is a part of NTT Group, which invests over $3.6 billion each year in R&D to help organizations and society move confidently and sustainably into the digital future.

Compensation

Where required by law, NTT DATA provides a reasonable range of compensation for specific roles. The starting hourly range for this remote role is ($65.00-$75.00/Hour). This range reflects the minimum and maximum target compensation for the position across all US locations. Actual compensation will depend on several factors, including the candidate's actual work location, relevant experience, technical skills, and other qualifications.

Equal Opportunity & Accessibility

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NTT DATA is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.