Senior DevOps Engineer (Salesforce) - MUST HAVE CURRENT SC CLEARANCE

Initial 3-month contract (possible extension)

£700-£800 per day (Inside IR35)

Hybrid - London, Glasgow or Cardiff - 2 days per week in the office

A leading UK regulatory body is seeking an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer (Salesforce) to support the enhancement, optimisation, and automation of its Salesforce delivery pipelines and wider DevOps capability. This is a senior hands-on engineering role within a complex, multi-workstream digital environment.

Role Overview

You will act as a technical specialist responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and automated release processes for Salesforce, using Azure DevOps (ADO). The role involves embedding testing automation, driving high coding and security standards, and improving DevOps maturity across multiple Salesforce workstreams.

This position requires deep technical knowledge of Salesforce DevOps, strong stakeholder collaboration, and the ability to deliver resilient, auditable, and repeatable deployment processes.

Key ResponsibilitiesPipeline & Release Engineering

• Design and optimise CI/CD pipelines for Salesforce using Azure DevOps.
• Enable source-driven and metadata deployments across multiple environments.
• Integrate automated testing using ADO Test Plans, BrowserStack, and Playwright.

Quality & Compliance

• Implement code quality tooling such as Salesforce Code Checker and (future) SonarCloud.
• Ensure releases meet security, compliance, and assurance standards.

Collaboration & Leadership

• Work closely with Salesforce developers, architects, delivery managers, and cloud/security teams.
• Provide technical coaching and support to improve delivery practices.
• Influence DevOps standards and continuous improvement initiatives.

Tooling & Automation

• Enhance automation frameworks across Salesforce and connected platforms.
• Promote Infrastructure as Code and Continuous Testing methodologies.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Strong experience delivering and maintaining Salesforce CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps.
• Hands-on integration with automated testing and quality tools (eg, Code Checker, BrowserStack, Playwright, SonarCloud).
• Deep understanding of modern DevOps practices, including automated deployments, pipeline optimisation, and cloud governance.
• Experience in troubleshooting Salesforce deployment and release issues.

Desirable

• Experience in enterprise or public-sector Salesforce environments.
• Exposure to cross-platform integrations and multi-team delivery ecosystems.

Key Behaviours

• Communicating & Influencing
• Making Effective Decisions
• Delivering at Pace