Remote Salesforce Release Engineer

Summary

PingWind is hiring a Salesforce Release Engineer to support VBA's Solutions Delivery Center of Excellence contract work. The role involves implementing scalable solutions using CI/CD within Agile development framework and providing support for various applications like Salesforce, ServiceNow, Pega, Microsoft Power Platform. Responsibilities include planning releases, coordinating resources, managing risks, and preparing release notes.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, electronics engineering, or other engineering or technical discipline is required, with 4 years of experience
• Experience working with Salesforce development and testing environments
• Intimate knowledge of source control principles and working in a Git environment
• Previous experience working in a government contract environment is highly desired
• Experience working with the Copado DevOps toolset in Salesforce
• Overall experience in System Design and SDLC lifecycle
• Previous release and/or project management experience
• Experience in all phases of the software development lifecycle including analysis, design, implementation, test, integration, and maintenance
• Experience managing releases for diverse environments with multiple applications and platform types
• Familiarity with Salesforce development best practices
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate cross-functional work teams toward task completion
• Demonstrated effective leadership and analytical skills
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, with demonstrated experience

Responsibilities

• Plan the release of project deliverables and Salesforce release life cycle
• Oversight and governance of project release deliverables and assets
• Participate in Sprint cycles to ensure that release assets are throughout the development cycle
• Support the preparation of deployment assets of the product to the target audience in the production environment
• Support the Digital Transformation Center (DTC) in the implementation and release of the configured application into production for end user use
• Prepare Release notes, traceability matrix, deployment guides and system design documents to document the changes in functionality being deployed
• Communicate project-related tasks such as plans, timelines, requirements, etc
• Coordinate the release schedule and resources required depending upon the third-party applications, defect backlogs, planned releases, and infrastructure updates
• Identify the risks that can delay the release and manage them, such that the scope scheduled, and quality of the release is not affected
• Capture information for new features and enhancements, as well as for the entire release package for the configuration, development and integration services, quality assurance and automation testing

Benefits

• Paid Federal Holidays
• Robust Health & Dental Insurance Options
• 401k with matching
• Paid vacation and sick leave
• Continuing education assistance
• Short Term / Long Term Disability & Life Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program through Sun Life Financial EAP Guidance Resources