Salesforce DevOps Lead

Summary

Join Darktrace, a global leader in cybersecurity AI, as an experienced Salesforce DevOps Lead. You will play a key role in a fast-paced Salesforce transformation project, driving all DevOps activity through designing, implementing, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines. As a Technical Leader, you will collaborate with engineers and partners to deploy, operate, and improve services. You will own and enhance standard processes for provisioning, application scaling, and monitoring, while mentoring team members. The ideal candidate possesses strong analytical and problem-solving skills, expertise in cloud-hosted systems, and proficiency in various tools. This role offers a competitive benefits package.

Requirements

• Have experience in DevOps or a similar role, and experience as a Technical Lead, supported by a related technical degree
• Possess strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Be fluent in one or more scripting languages
• Have expertise in managing cloud-hosted systems, including configuration, deployment, auto-scaling, performance tuning, and disaster recovery
• Be proficient in source control, CI/CD pipelines, and container orchestration tools like Kubernetes and Docker
• Have experience in AWS, Terraform, and Salesforce architecture
• Be adept at using Salesforce deployment tools such as Azure DevOps, Gearset, and Copado
• Demonstrate excellent communication, collaboration, and project management skills to scope work, manage backlogs, and ensure predictable project delivery
• Have good knowledge of basic networking and cloud security concepts
• Be able to logically work through problems, correlating and investigating patterns in behaviour and logging
• Have experience with continuous integration systems CI/CD (e.g., Git, Github)
• Have strong Git command-line skills

Responsibilities

• Drive all DevOps activity through designing, implementing, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, ensuring smooth Salesforce Sales Cloud deployments and maintaining the security and integrity of the platform
• Drive multi-functional collaboration with engineers, product managers, and external partners to deploy, operate, automate, monitor, and continuously improve services
• Ensure the delivery of high-quality products and a premium customer experience
• Provide strategic guidance on long-term platform requirements and operational guidelines, emphasising automation and the continuous improvement of platform service composability and availability
• Own and enhance standard processes and methodologies for provisioning, application scaling, configuration management, capacity planning, and monitoring, advancing organisation-wide visibility into the performance and interaction of distributed systems in production
• Manage daily operational goals and critical metrics
• Raise engineering standards by implementing best practices for coding, testing, and deployment
• Mentor and guide team members to foster their growth and expertise

Benefits

• 23 days’ holiday + all public holidays, rising to 25 days after 2 years of service
• Additional day off for your birthday
• Private medical insurance which covers you, your cohabiting partner and children
• Life insurance of 4 times your base salary
• Salary sacrifice pension scheme
• Enhanced family leave
• Confidential Employee Assistance Program
• Cycle to work scheme