DevSecOps Engineer

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.