Salesforce Release Manager and DevOps Lead

Alliant Insurance Services is one of the nation's largest and fastest-growing insurance brokerage and consulting firms. We operate through a network of specialized national platforms and local offices to offer our clients a comprehensive portfolio of solutions built on innovative thinking and personal service. Alliant is changing the way our clients approach risk management and benefits, so they can capitalize on new opportunities to grow and protect their organizations.

More information is available on the company's website at: www.alliant.com.

SUMMARY

The Salesforce Release Manager & DevOps Lead is responsible for defining and executing the release management, DevOps, and test automation strategy for Salesforce at Alliant. This role oversees release planning, environment management, CI/CD automation, and quality gatekeeping to ensure changes are deployed reliably, securely, and with minimal disruption. This role is central to ensuring that Salesforce development and configuration changes move seamlessly from design to production in a repeatable, low-risk way.
*Travel is required for this role up to 20% frequency. Hybrid work schedule in Alliant Offices - Los Angeles, CA; Chicago, IL; Tampa, FL; Naples, FL; or Atlanta, GA.*

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Define release calendars (semi-monthly small releases, monthly major releases) and align teams to those cadences.

Manage change freeze windows and coordinate with stakeholders to minimize disruption.

Ensure backlog grooming accounts for Definition of Ready/Done from a DevOps perspective.

Maintain release readiness checklists including test sign-offs, UAT approvals, and rollback plans.

Prepare deployment plans and manage execution during scheduled windows.

Manage test data seeding, anonymization, and environment data integrity.

Oversee Salesforce environments (dev, QA, UAT, staging, prod) and enforce parity across them.

Define environment naming conventions, refresh schedules, and access policies and enforce DevOps policies, release standards, and quality gates.

Ensure environment security and compliance with company regulatory standards.

Build, maintain, and optimize Salesforce CI/CD pipelines (Gearset, Copado, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps).

Automate deployment validation, regression testing, code quality checks (PMD, SonarQube), and release rollbacks.

Establish and enforce branching, version control, and packaging strategies (unlocked/managed packages).

Manage automated backup and recovery processes for Salesforce environments.

Manage the infrastructure and tooling for automated UI testing (Provar, Selenium, Robot Framework, etc.).

Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines (unit, regression, smoke, integration).

Ensure code coverage thresholds, static analysis, and security scans are met before release.

Drive innovation in self-service release tooling and platform reliability engineering.

Mentor developers, admins, and analysts on DevOps practices and tools.

Stay ahead of Salesforce release cycles and ensure the org is prepared to adopt new features.

Act as advisor on COE governance and architectural decisions related to release management.

QUALIFICATIONS

EDUCATION / EXPERIENCE

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field (or equivalent experience).

Seven (7) or more years experience with Salesforce.

Three (3) or more years experience in release management or DevOps leadership.

Salesforce Certified Advanced Administrator

Salesforce Platform Developer I

Salesforce Platform Developer II

Salesforce Application or System Architect

DevOps-related certifications (e.g., GitHub, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Copado, Gearset)

SKILLS

Knowledge of Salesforce DX, metadata management, scratch orgs, and packaging strategies.

Knowledge of automated deployments, regression testing, and rollback strategies.

Knowledge of automated validation of UI, integrations, and regression scenarios.

Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation).

Strong experience with Salesforce DX, Git-based workflows, and CI/CD automation.

Strong understanding of static code analysis (PMD, SonarQube) and security scanning (Snyk, Checkmarx).

Strong understanding of Salesforce release cycles and enterprise adoption planning.

Strong collaboration and coordination across technical and business teams.

Strong background in Agile delivery and cross-team release coordination.

Skilled in monitoring, logging, and incident response (Splunk, Datadog, PagerDuty).

Skilled in articulating release plans, risks, and trade-offs to leadership.

Skilled in CI/CD tools: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab, Azure DevOps, Copado, Gearset.

Skilled in test automation tools such as: Provar, Selenium, Robot Framework, or equivalent.

Ability to mentor others in DevOps, QA, and automation practices.

Ability to manage releases in enterprise Salesforce orgs with multiple environments.

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We are proud to provide comprehensive, high quality employee programs to meet employees' needs now and in the future, including a very competitive financial package. We encourage you to explore what we have to offer.

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Alliant Insurance Services, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, age, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or any other protected status.

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