DevOps Release Manager: Salesforce

 

Recruiter:

wePlace

Job Ref:

JHB000599/BB

Date posted:

Wednesday, October 26, 2022

Location:

Midrand, South Africa

Salary:

Market Annually


SUMMARY:
One of South Africa's Banking Giants is looking for a DevOps Release Manager with Salesforce experience to operationalise the Banks’s Business Banking Salesforce platform through  designing, testing, deploying and maintaining the platform in line with governance, standards and relevant frameworks.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Purpose Statement: 
  • Taking ownership of all aspects related to ensuring a healthy Salesforce.com platform.
  • Taking responsibility for scheduling, planning and controlling the software delivery life cycle (SDLC).
  • Enabling DevOps best practice, ideas, innovation and automation across the platform
Experience (minimum): 
  • Minimum 7 years’ experience on the Salesforce platform inclusive of release management, Salesforce Administrator, and implementing Salesforce.com technology-based solutions (and 3 - 5 years in a DevOps or IT Engineering role)
  • Must have experience with at least 2 different Salesforce Cloud platforms (for ex: Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud, and Financial Services Cloud) or Installed Applications.
  • Experience of working on enterprise Salesforce.com platform and the implications related to Release Management.
  • Experience managing the release processes for business on-boarding projects and data migrations.
    Hands on experience with Salesforce.com configurations, roles, profiles, strong APEX experience, and other permission controls.
  • Proven experience and proficiency in refreshing a sandbox, must know how to package and deploy metadata components, knowledge on release branching strategies, code merging and should have worked on conflict resolution strategies.
  • Proven experience managing DevOps teams and mentoring engineers
  • Industry experience working with Big Data platforms
  • Experience in using and manipulating API’s, API documentation
  • Visualization experience advantage (ELK, Grafana, Splunk)
Experience (Ideal):
  • 7+ years’ experience on the Salesforce platform
  • 5 years in a DevOps or IT Engineering role
Qualifications (Minimum)
  • Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology - Computer Science or Information Technology - IT Engineering
Qualifications (Ideal or Preferred)
  • Honours Degree in Information Technology - Computer Science or Information Technology - IT Engineering
Knowledge (minimum):
  • A strong understanding of CRM, Sales, Marketing, and other business processes.
  • Good knowledge and experience with AppExchange products and understanding of how to install/de-install.
  • Should have strong understanding of deployments using Force.com migration tools (Salesforce Tools IDE, GITlab, and Version Control i.e. AutoRabit ). 
Knowledge (Ideal):
  • Swagger, Postman 
  • Client experience principles
  • Salesforce.com – declarative and custom development
Skills
  • Communications Skills
  • Decision making skills
  • Influencing Skills
  • Planning, organising and coordination skills
  • Problem solving skills


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