Salesforce DevOps Engineer (Contract) – Outside IR35 at Khonsu tech solutions, United Kingdom, £Contract Rate

Role: Salesforce DevOps Engineer

Contract Type: Outside IR35

Location: Remote / Hybrid (UK)

Duration: 6–12 months (with possible extension)

Start Date: Immediate / ASAP

We are seeking an experienced Salesforce DevOps Engineer to support and enhance our multi-cloud Salesforce delivery pipeline. The ideal contractor will have strong expertise in source-driven development, CI/CD automation, environment management, and release governance across complex Salesforce landscapes (Sales, Service, CPQ, Experience Cloud, custom domains).

The role focuses on ensuring high-quality, scalable, and auditable deployments, working closely with engineering leads, architects, QA, and product teams.

• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Copado, Gearset, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or Bitbucket Pipelines.
• Implement source-driven development processes: branching strategy, pull request gating, version control governance.
• Automate deployments, validations, back-promotions, and environment sync processes.
• Maintain automated testing pipelines including Apex tests, static code analysis, PMD, and SFDX scanner.

• Own the end-to-end release process for Dev → QA/SIT → UAT → Pre-Prod → Prod.
• Define and enforce deployment guardrails (approvals, change tracking, release notes).
• Analyse and resolve deployment failures, metadata conflicts, and dependency issues.
• Manage sandbox refresh strategy, including post-refresh configuration and data seeding.

• Support development teams with SFDX modularisation, source tracking, packaging, and versioning.
• Ensure metadata consistency across multi-sandbox architectures (Service Dev, CPQ Dev, Sales Dev, Shared Dev).
• Implement automated delta-deploy and destructive changes strategies.
• Oversee integration of org-specific components such as flows, Omnistudio/Vlocity, CPQ metadata, custom objects, and permission sets.

• Maintain audit trails, release reporting, and environment dashboards.
• Ensure adherence to SDLC, change management, and SOX / ISO governance as applicable.
• Create and maintain DevOps documentation, runbooks, deployment checklists, and knowledge articles.

• 4–8+ years hands-on Salesforce platform experience.
• Strong proficiency with:
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• SFDX / Salesforce CLI
• Git (GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket)
• Copado, Gearset, AutoRABIT or equivalent DevOps tooling
• Metadata API & org-diff analysis
• Apex test frameworks, Lightning metadata, Flows
• Experience with CI tooling:
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• GitHub Actions / Azure DevOps / Jenkins / CircleCI
• Experience with data migrations:
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• Data Loader, Data Import Wizard, SOQL queries
• Understanding of API integrations, Managed Packages, and unlock/second-gen packaging (nice to have).

• Strong problem-solving ability during release conflicts, merge failures, and validation errors.
• Excellent communication skills for working with developers, QA, architects, and product owners.
• Self-driven contractor comfortable working independently under Outside IR35 arrangements.

• Experience with Salesforce CPQ, Vlocity/OmniStudio, FSC, or Experience Cloud.
• Exposure to AWS, Docker, Kubernetes (for CI/CD infrastructure).
• Knowledge of Test Automation (Provar, Selenium, Jest for LWC).
• Understanding of Data Cloud and Event-Driven Architectures.

• Outside IR35 contract
• Competitive daily rate
• Opportunity to shape enterprise-grade DevOps strategy
• Work with a modern, multi-cloud Salesforce platform
• Flexible remote working model