VP- Salesforce DevOps Engineer

IB Tech, CRM & Analytics is a strategic, agile and cross-functional team responsible for leading the firm's global digitalization effort through innovative technology, data science and deep analytics. The team partners with all client-facing business units and corporate functions, as well as industry experts, to build transformational technology impacting investment banking, trading, sales, and research teams to drive revenue, maximize efficiency, and optimize client service.

We are at the forefront of Jefferies' cloud initiative, leveraging best-in-class cloud-based technologies to replace legacy on-premises solutions to provide intelligent trend insights, actionable opportunities, decision support, and transparency into all client and business-related activities.

Job Summary:

We are seeking a hands-on Salesforce DevOps Engineer, VP with strong technical depth and the ability to collaborate with global consultants to deliver and execute a DevOps roadmap. The ideal candidate has extensive experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines within the Salesforce ecosystem, a strong understanding of integrated systems—particularly AWS—and a proven track record of managing infrastructure and production releases with minimal downtime. This role requires a balance of hands-on engineering, DevOps strategy execution, and cross‑functional collaboration.

Key Responsibilities:

• Partner with Salesforce Engineering Leads to create, drive and own yearly DevOps strategy
• Build a culture of metrics driven DevOps ecosystem – deployment frequency, pipeline stability
• Design, implement, and maintain scalable CI/CD pipelines for Salesforce using Jenkins and GitHub Actions
• Build automated deployment workflows enabling continuous integration and continuous delivery in collaboration with development teams
• Define and implement pipelines as code wherever possible
• Develop automation to identify and remediate configuration and code issues early in the delivery lifecycle
• Manage test environments, including environment setup, data management, and coordination with integrated systems
• Integrate test automation, unit tests, and other quality gates into CI/CD pipelines
• Ensure adherence to configuration management, change management, and release management processes
• Maintain a complete and up-to-date inventory of all Salesforce environments
• Monitor environment health and perform initial troubleshooting of issues
• Coordinate Salesforce code, metadata, and data migrations across environments
• Promote a culture of continuous improvement, automation, and operational excellence

Mandatory Qualifications & Skills:

DevOps & CI/CD

• Jenkins: pipeline creation, job configuration, optimization, and troubleshooting
• GitHub Actions: workflow design and CI/CD automation
• Git: branching strategies, version control best practices, and release workflows
• End‑to‑end CI/CD expertise, including integration of automated tests and quality gates

Salesforce DevOps

• Salesforce deployment expertise including Metadata API, SFDX, and production deployment handling
• Experience coordinating code, metadata, and data deployments across environments
• Strong understanding of Salesforce release management and change management

Coding

• Strong Python, Groovy scripting for automation, orchestration, and tool integration

Infrastructure & Cloud

• Hands-on experience building, managing, and maintaining infrastructure to support DevOps activities
• Strong understanding of integrations and deployments within the AWS ecosystem

Productivity & Modern Tooling

• Experience leveraging AI tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude Code) to enhance engineering productivity

Operational Excellence

• Experience managing production releases with minimal downtime
• Ability to perform L1 troubleshooting and environment health monitoring

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
• 7+ years of overall IT experience, with at least 3+ years focused on Salesforce DevOps
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication skills and proven ability to collaborate effectively with global teams

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