Salesforce DevOps Engineer with Copado - 100% Remote

ALTA IT has a Contract to Hire position open for a Salesforce DevOps Engineer. *100% Remote*

As a Salesforce DevOps Engineer, the ideal candidate will be trusted to lead the Salesforce DevOps strategy, including but not limited to: source code control, continuous integration / continuous delivery (CI/CD), testing, monitoring, and automation of Salesforce deployments using Copado.
We are looking for candidates who are experienced hands-on Salesforce Developers with CI/CD automation experience
In this role, a typical day will include:

• Setting-up the CD/CI pipeline and environment from scratch, using Copado and related tools.
• Having a daily impact overseeing the DevOps release process for the MATS Salesforce instance and assisting our developers throughout their release process.
• Deeply understanding our release process, thinking strategically about continuous improvement and automation that enables our developers to release efficiently and on-time.
• Ensuring code delivery through the development lifecycle is simple, seamless, and consistent, and providing long-term resolutions and an overall roadmap for the completion of this process.
• Developing, maintaining and advancing our CI/CD pipeline.
• Maintaining GIT repositories and deploying of all the MATS software releases.
• Supporting post deployment activities, including knowledge transfer, process documentation and application bug fixes.
• Collaborating with team members to ensure safe and secure environments for development, quality assurance, user acceptance testing, and deployment.
• Acting as a single point of contact to plan, coordinate, and oversee our releases, patches, and emergency change requests.

Required Qualifications:

• 8+ total years of hands-on experience as a Salesforce Admin and/or Developer, with at least 6+ years working with Salesforce deployments and DevOps/release management, with an understanding of CI/CD processes, integration concepts in an enterprise IT software development environment
• Possess Valid Copado Admin and Copado Developer Certifications
• Expertise with branching strategies, version control, pipeline automation and orchestration utilizing Copado and related tools like Git, Jenkins, BitBucket, GitHub, Ant, etc.
• Experience of Coordinate Branching and Merging strategies with development and QA teams
• Implemented complex Salesforce DevOps pipeline for Salesforce releases with Copado
• Excellent knowledge in code deployment version conflict resolution
• Mastery of advanced Git (e.g. conflict resolution, cherry-picking, rebasing), one or more popular CICD tools
• Experience with Salesforce configuration such as managing users, profiles and permission sets.

Citizenship Requirement:

• Candidate must have lived in the United States at least three (3) out of the last five (5) years and must be able to obtain Public Trust clearance.
• Position requires candidate must be US Citizenship or Permanent Resident (Green Card Holder).

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree
• Salesforce Platform Developer I or II certification
• Healthcare Service Industry or Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services experience
• Experience working with JIRA, Confluence, and SharePoint
• Experience with infrastructure in a cloud environment (AWS preferred)
• Experience with Agile methodologies and frameworks such as, but not limited to: SAFe, Scrum, Kanban
• Certified SAFe Agilist, SAFe Practitioner or other Agile certification
• Ability to manage time effectively, to work under time pressure, to meet schedules and deadlines, to multi-task, to plan, organize and prioritize work assignments and pay close attention to detail