Lead Release DevOps Engineer

Job Category

Software Engineering

Job Details

**About Salesforce**

We’re Salesforce, the Customer Company, inspiring the future of business with AI+ Data +CRM. Leading with our core values, we help companies across every industry blaze new trails and connect with customers in a whole new way. And, we empower you to be a Trailblazer, too — driving your performance and career growth, charting new paths, and improving the state of the world. If you believe in business as the greatest platform for change and in companies doing well and doing good - you’ve come to the right place.

Release engineers are skilled in release methodologies and can perform most tasks required of release engineering - whether operational, process oriented, or project-based. They may represent release engineering in discussions with other groups; and can independently lead and direct small and medium-sized projects within release engineering. Their project results are complete and well-documented. Similarly, processes are well-documented and repeatable. Tools and software are scalable, robust, and well

**Responsibilities**:

- Gateway for releases into multiple, geographically-dispersed production data centers, 1P and managed services infrastructure as other type of substrate (e.g. AWS).
- Management and expansion of the existing infrastructure that supports our ability to turn concepts into code and deliver quality to our customers.
- Ability and proven record of writing serious code with deep understanding of SDLC and develop scripts to solve automation issues, using minimum of Java and/or GO or equivalent (such as C++ etc.).
- This job has duties which would rotate to weekend work. Proper compensation with time-off is in place for weekend coverage. This means once in a weekend shift, Saturday and Sunday would be devoted to the work. The shift with weekend included would have lesser number of days.

**Required Skills**:

- Experience will be evaluated based on alignment to the core competencies for the role (e.g. extracurricular leadership roles, military experience, volunteer work, etc.)
- Strong knowledge of Perforce, SVN, Clearcase, CVS, or GIT.
- Demonstrated ability to support Development Operations: dev, test environments, mission-critical internal tools administration in a Help Desk, and zero downtime framework.
- Strong command of code branching architecture.
- 3+ years experience with a scripting language (Perl, Python or GO) required.
- Experience supporting an on-demand environment is highly valued.
- Experience with orchestration and remote execution: Saltstack, Ansible, Fabric or similar.
- Proven track record of implementing build/release systems around new products

**Desired Skills**:

- Excellent inter personal skills.
- Proven ability to multi-task, prioritize, and work under deadlines.
- RHCSA, RHCE strongly preferred.
- High-level coding skills in Java, C++ or equivalent
- Strong customer-focus. We are here for the customer. Are you?

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