Virtual Labs
Website:
vlabs.iitb.ac.in
Company:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/virtual-labb
Seniority: Mid-Senior level
Industries: IT Services and IT Consulting
Job details:
Job Title: Salesforce Release Engineer
Location: Bengaluru, India
Work Model: Hybrid
Experience: 5–8 Years
Job Summary
We are looking for an experienced Salesforce Release Engineer / Release Manager with strong hands-on experience in Salesforce deployments, release management, CI/CD, and DevOps practices. The ideal candidate will manage Salesforce releases across multiple environments and work closely with Salesforce developers, architects, QA, and business teams to ensure smooth and reliable deployments.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage end-to-end Salesforce release management across Development, QA, UAT, and Production environments.
- Plan and coordinate Salesforce releases, deployment schedules, and release calendars.
- Perform and support deployments using Salesforce CLI, Metadata API, Change Sets, ANT, or DevOps tools.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for Salesforce deployments.
- Manage source control using Git/GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket.
- Work with Salesforce development teams to package and promote code/configuration between environments.
- Perform deployment validation, troubleshooting, rollback planning, and post-release verification.
- Coordinate with QA teams for test execution, regression testing, and UAT readiness.
- Manage Salesforce metadata including Apex, Lightning Web Components (LWC), Flows, Profiles, Permission Sets, Objects, Reports, and Custom Metadata.
- Implement and maintain Salesforce DevOps/release best practices.
- Monitor deployment failures and resolve issues related to dependencies, metadata conflicts, and environment inconsistencies.
- Maintain release documentation, deployment checklists, and audit trails.
- Collaborate with Salesforce Architects, Developers, QA, Business Analysts, and Product Owners.
- Support production deployments and participate in scheduled release activities when required.
Required Skills
- 5+ years of experience in Salesforce/SFDC, with strong exposure to release management.
- Hands-on experience with Salesforce deployment and release processes.
- Strong knowledge of Salesforce DX (SFDX) and Salesforce CLI.
- Experience with Git and CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience with tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, Copado, Gearset, or Flosum.
- Good understanding of Salesforce Apex, LWC, Flows, Profiles, Permission Sets, Objects, and Metadata.
- Experience managing multiple Salesforce environments and deployment dependencies.
- Strong understanding of DevOps, version control, branching, merging, and release strategies.
- Experience with deployment troubleshooting and rollback procedures.
- Good understanding of Salesforce security and environment management.
Preferred Skills
- Salesforce Sales Cloud / Service Cloud experience.
- Experience with Copado or Gearset.
- Salesforce DevOps Center experience.
- Knowledge of Jira, ServiceNow, or other ITSM/change-management tools.
- Salesforce Administrator or Platform Developer certification.
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.
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