Title: Release Engineer
Location: Plano, TX (5 Days Onsite)
Rate: ***/hr
Role Summary
The Salesforce DevOps / Release Engineer will support the optimization, automation, and governance of the Salesforce development and release lifecycle. This role is essential to reducing manual release effort, improving deployment quality and traceability, strengthening environment governance, and driving continuous improvement across Copado, Jira, source control, and Salesforce environments.
Key Responsibilities
Manage and support Salesforce deployments and release activities using Copado and Git/source control.
Perform release readiness reviews, deployment validation, dependency analysis, package verification, and post deployment validation.
Automate manual release checks and controls to improve efficiency and reduce human error.
Implement and maintain automated code quality and static analysis controls, including quality gates.
Support the proposed Salesforce environment restructuring and governance model across sandboxes and Production.
Monitor environment, repository alignment, identify metadata and source control discrepancies.
Analyze deployment failures and release incidents, participate in RCA, and convert findings into preventive controls.
Improve Copado configuration, branching, promotion, validation, and release processes.
Develop release dashboards and metrics covering release efficiency, quality, DevOps maturity, and process compliance.
Maintain release procedures, standards, documentation, and developer training materials.
Partner with Salesforce architects, developers, QA, business teams, and Release Management to continuously improve delivery practices.
Required Skills
Salesforce : Salesforce metadata and deployment architecture, Apex, Flow, permissions, and environment management.
DevOps : Copado, Git/source control, CI/CD concepts, branching and merging, release management, and environment strategy.
Quality : Salesforce Code Analyzer, PMD, or equivalent static analysis tooling; automated validation, testing, and quality gates.
Integration
Automation : Jira integration, REST APIs, and scripting or automation experience.
Operational : Strong troubleshooting and RCA skills, with the ability to identify systemic improvements rather than only resolving individual deployment issues.
The pay range for this role is
***/hr max
including any bonuses or variable pay. *** also offers benefits like medical, vision, dental, life, disability insurance and paid time off (including holidays, parental leave, and sick leave, as required by law). Ask our recruiters for more details on our Benefits package. The exact offer terms will depend on the skill level, educational qualifications, experience and location of the candidate.
*** is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We promote and support a diverse workforce at all levels of the company. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin, or disability. All applicants will be evaluated solely on the basis of their ability, competence, and performance of the essential functions of their positions with or without reasonable accommodations. Reasonable accommodations also are available in the hiring process for applicants with disabilities. Candidates can request a reasonable accommodation by contacting the company ADA Coordinator at ***.