Senior DevOps Engineer (Salesforce)

Senior DevOps Engineer (Salesforce) 3-month contract (possible extension) £700-£800 per day (Inside IR35) Full time - 1 day per week in either London / Cardiff / Glasgow office MUST HAVE ACTIVE SC CLEARANCE

Overview

A Governing Body is seeking a highly skilled Senior DevOps Engineer (Salesforce) to join its Digital, Data and Security Services function. This role sits within a multidisciplinary team responsible for delivering secure, scalable, and automated DevOps capabilities across multiple Salesforce workstreams. The successful candidate will be responsible for designing, implementing, and optimising CI/CD pipelines, ensuring high-quality, compliant, and resilient delivery of Salesforce services. This position requires an experienced DevOps professional with deep technical expertise and the ability to influence delivery practices across a complex environment.

Purpose of the Role

The Senior DevOps Engineer will take the lead in integrating and delivering software components through a complete DevOps toolchain. You will architect, build, and operate automated deployment environments for Salesforce, primarily using Azure DevOps.

Key aspects of the role include:

• Designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for Salesforce
• Integrating automated testing and code-quality tools (ADO Test Plans, Salesforce Code Checker, BrowserStack, Playwright, SonarCloud)
• Managing work tracking through ADO Boards and Confluence
• Ensuring DevOps practices align with cloud engineering and governance standards
• Coaching and mentoring junior DevOps team members
• Providing technical leadership across Salesforce and adjacent platforms

Key Responsibilities

Pipeline & Release Engineering

• Design, maintain, and optimise Salesforce CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps.
• Implement automated testing using ADO Test Plans, BrowserStack, and Playwright.

Quality & Compliance Assurance

• Integrate quality and security tools such as Salesforce Code Checker and SonarCloud.
• Ensure all releases meet required governance and assurance standards.

Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement

• Work closely with Salesforce developers, architects, cloud engineering teams, and security specialists.
• Support cross-functional delivery of secure and reliable DevOps capabilities.

Tooling & Automation Leadership

• Enhance DevOps tooling frameworks and automation across Salesforce and related platforms.
• Champion IaC, continuous testing, and industry-standard DevOps practices.

Knowledge Sharing & Continuous Improvement

• Contribute to DevOps communities of practice.
• Identify opportunities to improve delivery velocity, automation, and platform reliability.

Skills & Experience Required

Essential

• Proven experience implementing and maintaining Salesforce CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps (ADO).
• Experience integrating automated testing and code-quality tools (Code Checker, SonarCloud, BrowserStack, Playwright).
• Strong understanding of availability, capacity management, modern development standards, and secure solution design.
• Ability to troubleshoot Salesforce deployment issues and lead DevOps process optimisation.
• Experience designing medium-complexity systems and supporting integration testing across connected platforms.
• ACTIVE SC CLEARANCE (mandatory).

Desirable

• Experience supporting Salesforce delivery in public-sector or enterprise-scale environments.
• Familiarity with cross-platform integrations and cloud governance frameworks.

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