Salesforce DevOps Architect - Global Salesforce

$122,000 - $225,000/Yr

Slalom Consulting - Atlanta, GA

Full-time - Principal

Atlanta, GA

10,001+ employees

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

Slalom is seeking a Salesforce DevOps Architect to enhance our DevOps capabilities within the Global Enterprise Architecture Salesforce Team. This hands-on role is pivotal in collaborating with product owners, engineers, and architects to cultivate and mature a DevOps culture for our largest enterprise clients. The successful candidate will be responsible for supporting build teams by establishing Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) processes, setting a release cadence, and ensuring efficient scheduling and execution of deployments. Additionally, the role involves providing feedback and suggestions for process improvements and tooling recommendations. As a DevOps Architect, you will play a crucial role in pursuing new business opportunities, leveraging your expertise to detail assessment and delivery proposals. Your leadership will extend to mentoring and guiding our Salesforce DevOps Engineers, fostering their professional growth and advocating for their staffing needs on various projects. This position offers the opportunity to build strong, lasting relationships with team members, guiding them in their careers and helping them develop their skills. We are looking for a passionate Principal or Senior Principal to take on this role within our Salesforce practice, contributing to our commitment to diversity and inclusion while delivering impactful customer experiences. In this role, you will also be expected to develop and implement complex automation tasks and cloud architecture, advocate for DevOps culture and practices, assist in estimating work efforts for agile projects, and provide technical guidance to peers and clients. You will troubleshoot problems, design innovative CI/CD pipelines, and help develop project case studies and training materials. Your contributions will help grow our culture of learning through participation in technical conferences, community groups, and workshops, while also identifying opportunities for the maturation of our DevOps offerings.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement complex automation tasks and cloud architecture
• Advocate DevOps culture, tooling, delivery methods, and cultural practices within Slalom and with our clients
• Assist with estimating work efforts and story pointing required for each phase of an agile project
• Provide technical guidance and mentoring to peers, less experienced engineers, and client personnel
• Identify, qualify, and raise technical risks and issues
• Troubleshoot problems and automate responses for recurrent issues
• Design and build innovative, high-value CI/CD pipelines to deploy and manage Salesforce solutions
• Work with clients to meet business needs and solve problems
• Help develop project case studies, technology documentation, and training
• Help grow our culture of learning by taking part in and coordinating opportunities such as presenting at technical conferences, community groups, writing blog articles, and contributing to partner-coordinated workshops
• Identify opportunities for growth/maturation of DevOps offerings, and help set the direction for that growth
• Be a trusted advisor to client enterprise architects and program managers
• Build and develop relationships with DevOps Alliance partners as Slalom Global team leads, and market practice leaders
• Support recruiting and onboarding of new employees

Requirements

• Minimum 5 years working on the Salesforce Platform in Development
• 3+ years of experience in Salesforce Release Management
• Experience in the sandbox and environment management
• Experience managing Salesforce DevOps processes across multiple organizations and business units
• Experience designing and implementing end-to-end Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines
• Experience implementing and using tools such as GIT (or other version control systems), Jenkins, AutoRABIT, Copado, Flosum, Gearset, Azure DevOps, Salesforce DX or other equivalent tools
• Active certifications or ability to achieve relevant certifications upon hire
• Experience collaborating across multiple functional and/or technical teams to deliver an Agile-based project
• Ability to communicate with clients on a business level and translate their needs into technical solutions
• Excellent mentoring and leadership skills

Benefits

• Meaningful time off and paid holidays
• Parental leave
• 401(k) with a match
• Highly subsidized health, dental, & vision coverage
• Adoption and fertility assistance
• Short/long-term disability
• Yearly $350 reimbursement account for well-being related expenses
• Discounted home, auto, and pet insurance