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Position Summary
The Salesforce Release Engineer is responsible for planning, coordinating, and executing reliable, secure, and repeatable releases across Salesforce environments. This role ensures high‑quality deployments aligned with enterprise DevOps standards, compliance requirements, and release calendars while enabling development teams to deliver features at speed and scale. The Release Engineer closely partners with Salesforce Developers, Architects, QA, DevOps, Platform Support, and business stakeholders to manage end‑to‑end release activities across multiple Salesforce clouds and orgs.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in Salesforce Release engineering , DevOps ,Salesforce development
- Strong hands‑on experience with Salesforce metadata deployments
- Experience with Salesforce DevOps tools (Copado, AutoRabit, Gearset, or equivalent)
- Strong understanding of Release management and change management processes, Git/version control concepts ,CI/CD pipelines
- Ability to manage complex, multi‑team releases under tight timelines
- Excellent communication and coordination skills
Key Responsibilities
Deployment & Automation
- Execute and/or orchestrate deployments using Salesforce DevOps tools (e.g., Copado, AutoRabit, Gearset, Git‑based pipelines)
- Manage change sets, metadata deployments, version control merges, and CI/CD pipelines
- Automate deployments and validations to reduce manual error and improve reliability
- Validate deployments with appropriate pre‑ and post‑release checks
Environment & Configuration Management
- Coordinate sandbox strategy (refreshes, usage, access controls)
- Manage environment‑specific configurations, feature flags, and release toggles
- Partner with External teams & Development teams to ensure environment readiness
Continuous Improvement
- Identify and implement improvements to release processes, tooling, and automation
- Monitor deployment metrics (failure rates, lead time, rollback frequency)
- Drive standardization across teams and Salesforce orgs
Release Planning & Coordination
- Own the Salesforce release calendar across sandboxes, staging, and production
- Plan and coordinate major, minor, and hotfix releases across multiple teams
- Facilitate release readiness reviews, go/no‑go decisions, and rollback planning
- Ensure dependency tracking across features, integrations, and environments
- Produce release documentation, audit artifacts, and deployment evidence
Stakeholder Communication
- Communicate release scope, timelines, risks, and deployment outcomes
- Publish release notes and post‑release summaries
- Serve as the central point of coordination during release windows and incident response
Preferred Qualifications
- Salesforce certifications (e.g., Platform Developer I/II, DevOps certifications)
- Experience supporting large enterprise Salesforce footprints (multiple orgs, multiple clouds)
- Exposure to Salesforce Data Cloud / Agentforce Deployments
- Familiarity with ServiceNow, Jira, or similar ITSM / ALM tools
Education
Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related Field
Anticipated Weekly Hours
Time Type
Pay Range
The typical pay range for this role is:
This pay range represents the base hourly rate or base annual full-time salary for all positions in the job grade within which this position falls. The actual base salary offer will depend on a variety of factors including experience, education, geography and other relevant factors. This position is eligible for a CVS Health bonus, commission or short-term incentive program in addition to the base pay range listed above.
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Great benefits for great people
We take pride in offering a comprehensive and competitive mix of pay and benefits that reflects our commitment to our colleagues and their families.
Additional details about available benefits are provided during the application process and on Benefits Moments.
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