Senior DevOps Engineer (Salesforce)

London - UK

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 2 days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Job Description

OFFICIAL

Role details

Role Title Role Profile	Senior DevOps Engineer (Salesforce)
Level	Level 2b
Directorate	Digital Data and Security Services (DDSS)
Location	London / Glasgow / Cardiff
Contract Type	Permanent / Fixed-Term
Approach	Choose an item.
Security Level Required	SC

Ofgem works on behalf of energy consumers to ensure that every household and business in the UK can rely on a safe affordable and environmentally sustainable energy supply. We are playing a vital part in accelerating the transition to Net Zero and a carbon neutral energy system a goal that everyone wants to achieve. Whatever your role youll be playing your part in creating new energy solutions that are great for customers and great for the environment.

Ofgem has a culture of inclusion that encourages supports and celebrates the diverse voices and experiences of our colleagues. It fuels our innovation and helps ensure we can best represent the consumers and the communities we serve. Everyone is welcome - as an inclusive workplace our employees are comfortable bringing their authentic selves to work.

This role aligns with the Senior DevOps Engineer role in the Government Digital and Data Capability Profession.

Purpose

A Senior DevOps Engineer is responsible for the integration and delivery of software components within a complete DevOps toolchain. This includes designing implementing and optimising solutions across multiple Salesforce workstreams and technical domains.

At Ofgem this means working as a senior technical specialist to architect build and operate resilient automated environments and deployment pipelines focused on the Salesforce platform using Azure DevOps (ADO) for Salesforce deployments integrating testing and code quality tools such as ADO Test Plans Salesforce Code Checker and SonarCloud (in future). You will manage work tracking through ADO Boards and Confluence contribute to testing automation with BrowserStack and Playwright and ensure that Salesforce delivery aligns with Ofgems cloud engineering and governance standards. You will influence delivery practices across Salesforce and adjacent platforms ensuring resilience repeatability and compliance in all pipeline activities.

At this role level you will:

transform technical requirements into an effective DevOps toolchain to enable product delivery
provide coaching and mentoring to more junior colleagues
ensure that deployment strategies for products are repeatable scalable and highly available
have deep technical knowledge providing support to delivery teams and solving complex problems

Key Responsibilities:

Pipeline and Release Engineering

Design maintain and optimise Salesforce CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps (ADO) supporting metadata and source-driven deployments. Implement automated testing integration via ADO Test Plans BrowserStack and Playwright.

Quality and Compliance Assurance

Integrate code quality and compliance tools such as Salesforce Code Checker and SonarCloud to enforce secure coding and testing standards ensuring releases meet Ofgems quality and assurance requirements.

Collaboration and Stakeholder Engagement

Collaborate with Salesforce product owners developers architects and the wider Cloud Engineering and Security teams to deliver reliable auditable and efficient DevOps solutions.

Tooling and Automation Leadership

Continuously improve DevOps tooling and automation frameworks across Salesforce and adjacent platforms. Champion Infrastructure as Code and Continuous Testing approaches.

Knowledge Sharing and Continuous Improvement

Contribute to Ofgems devops community. Share technical knowledge and identify opportunities to improve DevOps maturity delivery velocity and platform reliability.

Skills

Skill	Level	Description
Availability and capacity management	Practitioner	ensure the correct implementation of availability and capacity management standards and procedures identify capacity issues and implement the required changes initiate remedial action (applied to Salesforce and ADO environments)
Development process optimisation	Practitioner	analyse current processes identify and implement opportunities to optimise processes lead and develop a team of experts to deliver service improvements help to evaluate and establish requirements for the implementation of changes by setting policy and standards
Information security	Practitioner	design solutions and services with security controls included specifically engineered to mitigate security threats (including Salesforce-specific access and data security controls)
Modern development standards	Practitioner	apply modern development standards and support others in applying them (including Salesforce DX and ADO Pipelines)
Programming and build (software engineering)	Practitioner	collaborate with others when necessary to review specifications use the agreed specifications to design code test and document programs or scripts of medium-to-high complexity using the right standards and tools
Prototyping	Practitioner	approach prototyping as a team activity actively soliciting prototypes and testing with others establish design patterns and iterate them use a variety of prototyping methods and choose the most appropriate
Service support	Practitioner	identify locate and fix service faults (including Salesforce release issues and deployment troubleshooting)
Systems design	Practitioner	design systems characterised by medium levels of risk impact and business or technical complexity select appropriate design standards methods and tools and ensure they are applied effectively review the systems designs of others to ensure appropriate technology and integration
Systems integration	Practitioner	define the integration build co-ordinate build activities across systems understand how to undertake and support integration testing activities (particularly Salesforce integrations with Ofgem systems)
User focus	Practitioner	collaborate with user researchers and can represent users internally explain the difference between user needs and the desires of the user champion user research to focus on all users prioritise and define approaches to understand the user story guiding others in doing s offer recommendations on the best tools and methods to use

Key Outputs and Deliverables

Salesforce CI/CD pipelines and Azure DevOps (ADO) tooling configurations aligned with Ofgem delivery and compliance standards.
Code quality test automation and security integration (Code Checker SonarCloud BrowserStack Playwright) within DevOps pipelines.
Automated reliable and auditable Salesforce environments and release processes across sandboxes and production environments.
Dashboards and reports in ADO Boards and Confluence for tracking delivery progress and operational metrics.
Technical leadership in Salesforce DevOps best practices across Ofgems Devops Engineering community.

Key Stakeholder Relationships

Internal

Salesforce Developers and Administrators
Technical and Solution Architects
Programme and Delivery Managers
Security Data and Operations Teams
Product Owners and Business Analysts

External

Salesforce and Azure DevOps Vendors
Suppliers and Service Providers (tooling automation testing)
Government Digital Service (GDS) and central assurance bodies
Cabinet Office and cross-government capability leads
Cross-government communities of practice (DevOps CRM automation)

Role Criteria

Essential	Proven experience implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for Salesforce using Azure DevOps (ADO). Experience integrating automated testing and code quality tools (Code Checker BrowserStack Playwright and SonarCloud.
Desirable	Experience supporting Salesforce deployments in public sector or enterprise-scale environments with cross-platform integrations.

Behaviours

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Communicating and Influencing

Delivering at Pace

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Job DescriptionOFFICIALRole details Role Title Role Profile Senior DevOps Engineer (Salesforce) Level Level 2b Directorate Digital Data and Security Services (DDSS) Location London / Glasgow / Cardiff Contract Type Permanent / Fixed-Term Approach Choose an item. Security Level Required SCOfgem wor...

Job Description

OFFICIAL

Role details

Role Title Role Profile	Senior DevOps Engineer (Salesforce)
Level	Level 2b
Directorate	Digital Data and Security Services (DDSS)
Location	London / Glasgow / Cardiff
Contract Type	Permanent / Fixed-Term
Approach	Choose an item.
Security Level Required	SC

This role aligns with the Senior DevOps Engineer role in the Government Digital and Data Capability Profession.

Purpose

At this role level you will:

transform technical requirements into an effective DevOps toolchain to enable product delivery
provide coaching and mentoring to more junior colleagues
ensure that deployment strategies for products are repeatable scalable and highly available
have deep technical knowledge providing support to delivery teams and solving complex problems

Key Responsibilities:

Pipeline and Release Engineering

Design maintain and optimise Salesforce CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps (ADO) supporting metadata and source-driven deployments. Implement automated testing integration via ADO Test Plans BrowserStack and Playwright.

Quality and Compliance Assurance

Integrate code quality and compliance tools such as Salesforce Code Checker and SonarCloud to enforce secure coding and testing standards ensuring releases meet Ofgems quality and assurance requirements.

Collaboration and Stakeholder Engagement

Collaborate with Salesforce product owners developers architects and the wider Cloud Engineering and Security teams to deliver reliable auditable and efficient DevOps solutions.

Tooling and Automation Leadership

Continuously improve DevOps tooling and automation frameworks across Salesforce and adjacent platforms. Champion Infrastructure as Code and Continuous Testing approaches.

Knowledge Sharing and Continuous Improvement

Contribute to Ofgems devops community. Share technical knowledge and identify opportunities to improve DevOps maturity delivery velocity and platform reliability.

Skills

Skill	Level	Description
Availability and capacity management	Practitioner	ensure the correct implementation of availability and capacity management standards and procedures identify capacity issues and implement the required changes initiate remedial action (applied to Salesforce and ADO environments)
Development process optimisation	Practitioner	analyse current processes identify and implement opportunities to optimise processes lead and develop a team of experts to deliver service improvements help to evaluate and establish requirements for the implementation of changes by setting policy and standards
Information security	Practitioner	design solutions and services with security controls included specifically engineered to mitigate security threats (including Salesforce-specific access and data security controls)
Modern development standards	Practitioner	apply modern development standards and support others in applying them (including Salesforce DX and ADO Pipelines)
Programming and build (software engineering)	Practitioner	collaborate with others when necessary to review specifications use the agreed specifications to design code test and document programs or scripts of medium-to-high complexity using the right standards and tools
Prototyping	Practitioner	approach prototyping as a team activity actively soliciting prototypes and testing with others establish design patterns and iterate them use a variety of prototyping methods and choose the most appropriate
Service support	Practitioner	identify locate and fix service faults (including Salesforce release issues and deployment troubleshooting)
Systems design	Practitioner	design systems characterised by medium levels of risk impact and business or technical complexity select appropriate design standards methods and tools and ensure they are applied effectively review the systems designs of others to ensure appropriate technology and integration
Systems integration	Practitioner	define the integration build co-ordinate build activities across systems understand how to undertake and support integration testing activities (particularly Salesforce integrations with Ofgem systems)
User focus	Practitioner	collaborate with user researchers and can represent users internally explain the difference between user needs and the desires of the user champion user research to focus on all users prioritise and define approaches to understand the user story guiding others in doing s offer recommendations on the best tools and methods to use

Key Outputs and Deliverables

Salesforce CI/CD pipelines and Azure DevOps (ADO) tooling configurations aligned with Ofgem delivery and compliance standards.
Code quality test automation and security integration (Code Checker SonarCloud BrowserStack Playwright) within DevOps pipelines.
Automated reliable and auditable Salesforce environments and release processes across sandboxes and production environments.
Dashboards and reports in ADO Boards and Confluence for tracking delivery progress and operational metrics.
Technical leadership in Salesforce DevOps best practices across Ofgems Devops Engineering community.

Key Stakeholder Relationships

Internal

Salesforce Developers and Administrators
Technical and Solution Architects
Programme and Delivery Managers
Security Data and Operations Teams
Product Owners and Business Analysts

External

Salesforce and Azure DevOps Vendors
Suppliers and Service Providers (tooling automation testing)
Government Digital Service (GDS) and central assurance bodies
Cabinet Office and cross-government capability leads
Cross-government communities of practice (DevOps CRM automation)

Role Criteria

Essential	Proven experience implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for Salesforce using Azure DevOps (ADO). Experience integrating automated testing and code quality tools (Code Checker BrowserStack Playwright and SonarCloud.
Desirable	Experience supporting Salesforce deployments in public sector or enterprise-scale environments with cross-platform integrations.