DevOps Consultant with Salesforce expereince - Bethesda - Smart IT Frame

Description

Location: Bethesda, Maryland (3 days onsite / week)

Mode: Contract

About Smart IT Frame:

At Smart IT Frame, we connect top talent with leading organizations across the USA. With over a decade of staffing excellence, we specialize in IT, healthcare, and professional roles, empowering both clients and candidates to grow together.

Job Description:

This role supports the enterprise Loyalty Technology Transformation LTT program migrating loyalty capabilities from legacy platforms to SaaS based Salesforce.

The DevOps Engineer will enable repeatable secure and compliant releases across multi sandbox orgs working closely with architects developers data migration and testing PODs.

Role Summary

You will own Salesforce DevOps for the Loyalty migration establishing and operating CICD pipelines environment strategy and release governance.

You will automate deployments of metadata and packages manage version control branching enforce quality gates and coordinate cutovers while collaborating across PODs integration data migration.

QA Experience with Copado Gearset Flosum SFDX CLI and GitHub Harness is essential.

Key Responsibilities

• Release CICD
• Design, implement and run CICD pipelines for Salesforce metadata unlocked packages integrating build test and deploy stages across DevQAUATProd.
• Configure pipelines in Copado, Gearset, Flosum, GitHub Actions, Harness, Jenkins including approvals back promotion and rollbacks.
• Manage SFDX project structure, CLI commands and automation scripts for repeatable deployments.
• Define sandbox taxonomy, refresh cadence, scratchorg lifecycle ensure environment parity and data compliance.
• Orchestrate release calendars and cutovers aligned to program milestones enforce freeze and change windows.
• Establish Git standards branching PRs code reviews merge strategies tagging and maintain release branches with traceability to user stories and change tickets.
• Autoate movement of metadata and configuration using SFDX Metadata API change sets and unlocked packages parameterize environment variablessecrets securely.
• Integrate automated testing Apex unit tests regression packs and quality gates PMDCodeScanSonar.
• Partner with Data Migration POD to validate data loads support ETL tooling and Salesforce APIs and assist with dress rehearsalscutover plans.
• Implement data quality checks and reconciliation scripts triage and resolve datarelated deployment issues.
• Enforce DevSecOps practices RBAC secrets management audit trails and align with Salesforce COE governance and releasemanagement standards.
• Maintain deployment documentation SOPs and evidences for auditcompliance.
• Set up monitoring ing for pipeline health and release outcomes deployment success rate test pass rate MTTR drive continuous improvement of DevOps maturity.

Collaboration Ways of Working

Work closely with architects developers admins QA and release managers proactively debug deployment failures and unblock teams.

Onshore Responsibilities

• Act as the primary liaison between offshore teams and client stakeholders ensuring smooth communication and alignment on priorities.
• Participate in daily standups sprint planning and release readiness meetings with client teams.
• Provide realtime support during critical cutovers production deployments and incident resolution.
• Ensure compliance with clientspecific governance security and audit requirements.
• Conduct knowledge transfer sessions and mentor offshore team members on best practices.
• Represent DevOps in onshore architecturedesign discussions and provide input on environment strategy and release planning.
• Coordinate with business and QA teams for UAT signoffs and production readiness.
• Serve as escalation point for deployment issues and facilitate quick resolution with crossfunctional teams.

Required Qualifications

• 5 - 8 years in DevOps Release Engineering with 3 years focused on Salesforce enterprise implementations.
• Hands on with SFDX CLI Visual Studio Code Harness and CICD GitHub Actions Harness Jenkins.
• Proficiency with Copado Gearset Flosum for pipeline management and governance.
• Strong grasp of Salesforce metadata models change sets unlocked packages and Metadata API.
• Experience migrating data using Data Loader ETL tools APIs and partnering on end-to-end cutovers.
• Solid Git fundamentals branching strategies PR reviews conflict resolution and automation scripting Bash Python Node as applicable.
• Clear concise documentation skills ability to coordinate multiteam releases in a fast-paced program.

Preferred Qualifications

• Exposure to Salesforce Data Cloud and Snowflake integrations data pipelines.
• Familiarity with Jira Azure DevOps for work item traceability and release notes.
• Experience with API middleware integration patterns during Salesforce migrations.
• Knowledge of quality tools PMD Code Scan SonarQube and security controls Vault KMS SSO.
• Prior work in loyalty CRM domain migrations.

Skills

• Docker

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