DevOps Engineer

Salesforce DevOps/Release Engineer

Resource type - Salesforce DevOps/Release Engineer

Experience - 5 to 8 years

Norms - PF & UAN mandatory

Resource Availability - Immediate or Joining time in less than 15 days

Job - Remote

Shift timings - UK timing (1pm to 10 pm or 2pm to 11pm)

Required Experience:

• 5–6 years of hands-on experience in Salesforce DevOps, release engineering, or deployment management.
• Strong expertise in Salesforce deployment processes, including CI/CD pipelines.
• Significant hands-on experience with at least two of the following tools: Gearset, Copado,Flosum.
• Solid understanding of Salesforce architecture, metadata, and development lifecycle.
• Familiarity with version control systems (e.g., Git) and agile methodologies

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and manage CI/CD pipelines for Salesforce deployments using Gearset, Copado, or Flosum.
• Automate and optimize deployment processes to ensure efficient, reliable, and repeatable releases across Salesforce environments.
• Collaborate with development, QA, and operations teams to gather requirements and ensurealignment of deployment strategies.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve deployment and release issues.
• Maintain documentation for deployment processes and provide training on best practices.
• Stay updated on the latest Salesforce DevOps tools, features, and best practices.

Technical Skills:

• Deployment ToolsHands-on with Gearset, Copado, Flosum for Salesforce deployments
• CI/CDBuilding and maintaining pipelines, automation, and release management
• Version ControlProficiency with Git and related workflows
• Salesforce PlatformUnderstanding of metadata, SFDX, and environment management
• Scripting
• Familiarity with scripting (e.g., Shell, Python) for automation (preferred)
• Communication
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Preferred Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.

Certifications:

Salesforce certifications (e.g., Salesforce Administrator, Platform Developer I/II) are a plus.

Experience with additional DevOps tools (Jenkins, GitLab, Azure DevOps) is beneficial.

Experience with Salesforce DX and deployment strategies for large-scale orgs. 

Job Overview:

We are looking for a seasoned OpenStack Administrator with strong expertise in managing large-scale production environments. The ideal candidate should have hands-on experience with Linux, Kubernetes, and OpenShift, and be capable of performing routine maintenance, upgrades, and troubleshooting in complex cloud infrastructures.

The candidate must also be comfortable working with Red Hat support, managing escalations, and communicating effectively with both internal teams and external clients.

Key Skills & Qualifications:

• Proven experience managing OpenStack infrastructure in production.
• Strong proficiency in Linux system administration (RHEL/CentOS preferred).
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and OpenShift.
• Experience with system monitoring, log management, and troubleshooting tools.
• Familiarity with RH support portal, managing cases, and following up on resolutions.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to work under pressure.
• Strong client communication skills and ability to articulate technical issues clearly.
• Proven ability to work in and manage large-scale production environments.

Candidates with OpenStack certification will be preferred.

Role 

We are looking for an experienced DevOps engineer that will help our team establish DevOps practice. You will work closely with the technical lead to identify and establish DevOps practices in the company.

You will also help us build scalable, efficient cloud infrastructure. You’ll implement monitoring for automated system health checks. Lastly, you’ll build our CI pipeline, and train and guide the team in DevOps practices.

This would be a hybrid role and the person would be expected to also do some application level programming in their downtime.

Responsibilities

• Deployment, automation, management, and maintenance of production systems.
• Ensuring availability, performance, security, and scalability of production systems.
• Evaluation of new technology alternatives and vendor products.
• System troubleshooting and problem resolution across various application domains and platforms.
• Providing recommendations for architecture and process improvements.
• Definition and deployment of systems for metrics, logging, and monitoring on AWS platform.
• Manage the establishment and configuration of SaaS infrastructure in an agile way by storing infrastructure as code and employing automated configuration management tools with a goal to be able to re-provision environments at any point in time.
• Be accountable for proper backup and disaster recovery procedures.
• Drive operational cost reductions through service optimizations and demand based auto scaling.
• Have on call responsibilities.
• Perform root cause analysis for production errors
• Uses open source technologies and tools to accomplish specific use cases encountered within the project.
• Uses coding languages or scripting methodologies to solve a problem with a custom workflow.

Requirements

• Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with strong communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive.

• Prior experience as a software developer in a couple of high level programming languages.

• Extensive experience in any Javascript based framework since we will be deploying services to NodeJS on AWS Lambda (Serverless)

• Extensive experience with web servers such as Nginx/Apache

• Strong Linux system administration background.
• Ability to present and communicate the architecture in a visual form.
• Strong knowledge of AWS (e.g. IAM, EC2, VPC, ELB, ALB, Autoscaling, Lambda, NAT gateway, DynamoDB)
• Experience maintaining and deploying highly-available, fault-tolerant systems at scale (~ 1 Lakh users a day)
• A drive towards automating repetitive tasks (e.g. scripting via Bash, Python, Ruby, etc)
• Expertise with Git
• Experience implementing CI/CD (e.g. Jenkins, TravisCI)
• Strong experience with databases such as MySQL, NoSQL, Elasticsearch, Redis and/or Mongo.
• Stellar troubleshooting skills with the ability to spot issues before they become problems.
• Current with industry trends, IT ops and industry best practices, and able to identify the ones we should implement.
• Time and project management skills, with the capability to prioritize and multitask as needed.

• Define and document best practices and strategies regarding application deployment and infrastructure maintenance.
• Ensure limited system failure and increase up-time and availability of the various company apps.
• Understand the current application infrastructure and strive for making it better.
• Automate infrastructure and develop tools and processes to improve the customer experience and reduce support time.
• Work closely with a team of developers and solution strategists to develop, deploy and troubleshoot the deployment and infrastructure issues.
• Manage full application stacks from the OS through custom applications using Amazon cloud-based computing environments.
• Set up a monitoring stack.
• Implement the application’s CI/CD pipeline using the AWS stack. Increasingly automate and improve the testing plans and development workflows and tools.
• Work closely with the engineers to design networks, systems, and storage environments that effectively reflect business needs, security requirements, and service level requirements.
• Manage a continuous integration/continuous deployment methodology for the server-based technologies.
• Proficient in leveraging CI and CD tools to automate testing and deployment. Experience working in an Agile, fast-paced, DevOps environment.
• Support internal and external customers on multiple platforms.
• First point of contact for handling customer issues, providing guidance and recommendations to increase efficiency and reduce customer incidents.
• Learn on the job and explore new technologies with little supervision.
• In addition to providing customer support, will be responsible for helping build tools and processes necessary for excellent customer outcomes.

Skills:

• Experience with the core AWS services, plus the specifics mentioned in this job description.
• Experience working with at least one of the following languages: Node.js, Python, PHP, Ruby, Kotlin or Java.
• Proficient with Git and Git workflows and hosted enterprise Git solutions like GitHub.
• Ability to troubleshoot distributed systems.
• Experience with. AWS EKS Kubernetes infrastructure setup.
• Experience creating Cloud Formation Template to create Auto Scaling Groups, Route 53, DNS, back-end database, Elastic load balancer, VPCs, Subnets, Security Groups, Cloud Watch, S3, IAM roles, RDS DB instances, and to provide those instances and configure those resources to work together reducing the manual effort.
• Experience in deploying and monitoring microservices on Kubernetes, AWS ECS, and AWS EKS
• Security aware and ensures that all systems are security standards-compliant.
• Good background in Linux/Unix administration.
• Experience with building or maintaining cloud-native applications.
• Minimum 3-5 years of cloud development experience, preferably AWS
• Experience with CI/CD tools like Jenkins preferred.
• Good analytical and communication skills
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related technical discipline

Requirements:-

• Must have good understanding of  Python and Shell scripting with industry standard coding conventions
• Must possess good coding debugging skills
• Experience in Design & Development of test framework
• Experience in Automation testing
• Good to have experience in Jenkins framework tool
• Good to have exposure to Continuous Integration process
• Experience in Linux and Windows OS
• Desirable to have Build  & Release  Process knowledge
• Experience in  Automating Manual test cases
• Experienced in automating OS / FW related tasks
• Understanding of BIOS / FW QA  is a strong plus
• OpenCV experience is a plus
• Good to have platform exposure
• Must have good Communication skills
• Good Leadership capabilities & collaboration capabilities, as individual will have to work with multiple teams and single handedly maintain the automation framework and enable the Manual validation team