Salesforce DevOps lead

London, England, United Kingdom

12/13/2024

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What will I be doing:

We are looking for an experienced Salesforce DevOps Lead with expertise in automating and operating critically important, web-scale distributed systems to join a fast-paced Salesforce transformation project. You will play a key role in driving all DevOps activity through designing, implementing, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, ensuring smooth Salesforce Sales Cloud deployments and maintaining the security and integrity of the platform.

As a Technical Leader and owner for DevOps with a focus on automation and operations, you will drive multi-functional collaboration with engineers, product managers, and external partners to deploy, operate, automate, monitor, and continuously improve services. Leading by example, you will ensure the delivery of high-quality products and a premium customer experience. Your role includes providing strategic guidance on long-term platform requirements and operational guidelines, emphasising automation and the continuous improvement of platform service composability and availability.

You will own and enhance standard processes and methodologies for provisioning, application scaling, configuration management, capacity planning, and monitoring, advancing organisation-wide visibility into the performance and interaction of distributed systems in production. Additionally, you will manage daily operational goals and critical metrics, raise engineering standards by implementing best practices for coding, testing, and deployment, and mentor and guide team members to foster their growth and expertise.

What experience do I need:

The ideal candidate has experience in DevOps or a similar role, and experience as a Technical Lead, supported by a related technical degree. You will possess strong analytical and problem-solving skills, fluency in one or more scripting languages, and expertise in managing cloud-hosted systems, including configuration, deployment, auto-scaling, performance tuning, and disaster recovery. Proficiency in source control, CI/CD pipelines, and container orchestration tools like Kubernetes and Docker is essential, along with experience in AWS, Terraform, and Salesforce architecture. You are adept at using Salesforce deployment tools such as Azure DevOps, Gearset, and Copado, and demonstrate excellent communication, collaboration, and project management skills to scope work, manage backlogs, and ensure predictable project delivery.

Other requirements include:

• Good knowledge of basic networking and cloud security concepts,
• Be able to logically work through problems, correlating and investigating patterns in behaviour and logging,
• Experience with continuous integration systems CI/CD (e.g., Git, Github),
• Strong Git command-line skills.
  
  

Benefits we offer:

• 23 days’ holiday + all public holidays, rising to 25 days after 2 years of service,
• Additional day off for your birthday,
• Private medical insurance which covers you, your cohabiting partner and children,
• Life insurance of 4 times your base salary,
• Salary sacrifice pension scheme,
• Enhanced family leave,
• Confidential Employee Assistance Program,
• Cycle to work scheme.