Salesforce DevOps Engineer - AutoRABIT

Position: Salesforce DevOps Engineer



Engagement: Long-term / Ongoing



Location: McLean, VA - Onsite Monday Friday



Team: Corporate Systems / Salesforce Engineering

The Corporate Systems team is seeking an experienced Salesforce DevOps Engineer with strong hands-on expertise in AutoRABIT and Salesforce CI/CD.

The ideal candidate will be responsible for designing, implementing, and supporting Salesforce deployment pipelines across Development, SIT, QA, UAT, and Production environments. The candidate should have strong experience with AutoRABIT, Git, Salesforce DX, metadata management, deployment automation, release management, Salesforce environments, and CI/CD best practices .

The candidate will work closely with Salesforce developers, architects, administrators, QA teams, Business Analysts, and project managers to ensure reliable, repeatable, and auditable Salesforce releases.

• Provide hands-on administration and implementation of AutoRABIT for Salesforce deployments.
• Design and maintain Salesforce CI/CD pipelines using AutoRABIT.
• Configure AutoRABIT repositories, environments, deployment pipelines, and release processes.
• Manage Salesforce metadata deployments across multiple environments.
• Configure automated validation, deployment, testing, and rollback processes.
• Troubleshoot AutoRABIT deployment failures and metadata conflicts.
• Manage deployment dependencies and sequencing.
• Monitor deployment status and resolve pipeline issues.
• Establish Salesforce DevOps standards and best practices using AutoRABIT.
• Support developers and administrators with AutoRABIT deployment processes.

• Build and maintain automated Salesforce CI/CD pipelines.
• Implement continuous integration and continuous deployment across Salesforce environments.
• Automate:
  • Metadata validation
  • Apex testing
  • Code deployment
  • Static code analysis
  • Package creation
  • Release promotion
• Establish appropriate deployment gates and approvals.
• Reduce manual deployment activities and deployment-related errors.
• Implement repeatable and auditable release processes.

Manage and coordinate deployments across:

• Development
• Integration/SIT
• QA
• UAT
• Pre-Production
• Production

Responsibilities include:

• Environment synchronization.
• Sandbox refresh coordination.
• Deployment sequencing.
• Environment readiness checks.
• Metadata comparison.
• Release validation.
• Production deployment coordination.

• Manage Salesforce source code using Git .
• Work with GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, or similar repositories.
• Implement branching strategies for Salesforce development.
• Manage pull requests, merges, branches, and releases.
• Resolve merge conflicts.
• Maintain source-code repositories and metadata.
• Establish appropriate branching and version-control standards.

• Strong understanding of Salesforce DX / SFDX .
• Work with Salesforce CLI and source-driven development.
• Manage Salesforce metadata in source control.
• Create and manage scratch orgs where applicable.
• Execute Salesforce CLI commands for deployments, validation, testing, and metadata retrieval.
• Support source-format and metadata-format conversions.
• Automate Salesforce DX activities within CI/CD pipelines.

• Coordinate Salesforce releases across development and production environments.
• Create deployment plans and release schedules.
• Manage deployment dependencies.
• Coordinate with developers, QA, business analysts, and release managers.
• Perform pre-deployment validation.
• Support production releases and post-deployment validation.
• Maintain release documentation and deployment records.
• Implement rollback and recovery procedures.
• Track deployment metrics and release quality.

Strong understanding of Salesforce metadata including:

• Apex Classes
• Apex Triggers
• Lightning Web Components
• Aura Components
• Flows
• Permission Sets
• Profiles
• Custom Objects
• Custom Fields
• Record Types
• Validation Rules
• Reports
• Dashboards
• Lightning Pages
• Custom Labels
• Email Templates
• Named Credentials
• External Credentials
• Experience Cloud components
• Custom Metadata Types
• Custom Settings

• Integrate automated Apex testing into CI/CD pipelines.
• Ensure appropriate test coverage before production deployment.
• Support automated regression testing.
• Implement deployment validation gates.
• Integrate static code analysis and quality checks.
• Monitor deployment quality and failure trends.
• Work with QA teams to automate testing wherever possible.

• Analyze and resolve Salesforce deployment failures.
• Troubleshoot:
  • Metadata dependencies
  • Component failures
  • Apex test failures
  • Validation failures
  • Permission issues
  • Package conflicts
  • Deployment sequencing issues
  • Git merge conflicts
  • Environment inconsistencies
• Perform root-cause analysis and recommend preventive solutions.

• Implement secure DevOps practices for Salesforce.
• Manage access to repositories and deployment tools.
• Follow enterprise change-management processes.
• Maintain appropriate separation of duties between development and production.
• Ensure deployment processes are auditable.
• Support compliance and release governance requirements.

• Work within an Agile/Scrum environment.
• Participate in sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily standups, and release planning.
• Work with Jira for deployment and release-related stories.
• Coordinate with developers and QA on sprint releases.
• Provide deployment estimates and communicate risks and dependencies.

• 5+ years of Salesforce DevOps / release management experience.
• 3+ years of hands-on AutoRABIT experience.
• Strong hands-on experience building and managing Salesforce CI/CD pipelines .
• Strong Salesforce metadata and deployment knowledge.
• Strong Git/source-control experience.
• Strong Salesforce DX/SFDX experience.
• Experience managing Salesforce deployments across multiple environments.
• Experience with Apex testing and automated validation.
• Experience troubleshooting complex Salesforce deployment failures.
• Experience working with Salesforce developers, architects, QA, and administrators.
• Strong understanding of Agile development and release processes.
• Strong Jira experience.
• Excellent troubleshooting, analytical, communication, and documentation skills.

• AutoRABIT certification or advanced AutoRABIT training.
• Salesforce Platform Developer certification.
• Salesforce Administrator certification.
• Salesforce DevOps certification.
• Experience with AutoRABIT ARM and CI/CD capabilities .
• Jenkins experience.
• Azure DevOps experience.
• GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket experience.
• Copado experience.
• Ant Migration Tool experience.
• Salesforce CLI.
• Salesforce Experience Cloud deployment experience.
• Agentforce deployment experience.
• Data Cloud deployment experience.
• Experience with Salesforce managed/unmanaged packages.
• Experience with large enterprise Salesforce environments.
• Banking or financial-services experience.

DevOps:
AutoRABIT, AutoRABIT ARM, CI/CD, Release Management, Deployment Automation

Salesforce:
Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Experience Cloud, Apex, LWC, Aura, Flow, Metadata API

Source Control:
Git, GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket

Salesforce Development Tools:
Salesforce DX, SFDX, Salesforce CLI, VS Code, Ant Migration Tool

CI/CD & Automation:
AutoRABIT, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Copado

Testing:
Apex Testing, Automated Testing, Validation, Regression Testing, Code Quality

Agile:
Jira, Scrum, Sprint Planning, Release Planning

The ideal candidate is a hands-on Salesforce DevOps Engineer with strong AutoRABIT expertise who can independently manage the Salesforce release lifecycle.

They should be able to demonstrate:

Git/source control AutoRABIT configuration CI/CD pipeline Salesforce metadata validation automated Apex testing deployment UAT production release post-deployment validation.

1. Hands-on AutoRABIT experience
2. Salesforce CI/CD pipeline experience
3. Salesforce metadata/deployment experience
4. Git + Salesforce DX/SFDX
5. Multi-environment Salesforce release management
6. Apex testing/validation
7. Deployment troubleshooting
8. Jira/Agile experience

Important: For this role, AutoRABIT should be treated as a hands-on requirement , not simply a tool listed in the candidate's technical-skills section.