Salesforce Release Engineer

We’re building a world of health around every individual — shaping a more connected, convenient and compassionate health experience. At CVS Health®, you’ll be surrounded by passionate colleagues who care deeply, innovate with purpose, hold ourselves accountable and prioritize safety and quality in everything we do. Join us and be part of something bigger – helping to simplify health care one person, one family and one community at a time.

Position Summary
The Salesforce Release Engineer is responsible for planning, coordinating, and executing reliable, secure, and repeatable releases across Salesforce environments. This role ensures high‑quality deployments aligned with enterprise DevOps standards, compliance requirements, and release calendars while enabling development teams to deliver features at speed and scale. The Release Engineer closely partners with Salesforce Developers, Architects, QA, DevOps, Platform Support, and business stakeholders to manage end‑to‑end release activities across multiple Salesforce clouds and orgs.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Salesforce Release engineering , DevOps ,Salesforce development
• Strong hands‑on experience with Salesforce metadata deployments
• Experience with Salesforce DevOps tools (Copado, AutoRabit, Gearset, or equivalent)
• Strong understanding of Release management and change management processes,  Git/version control concepts ,CI/CD pipelines
• Ability to manage complex, multi‑team releases under tight timelines
• Excellent communication and coordination skills

Key Responsibilities

Deployment & Automation

• Execute and/or orchestrate deployments using Salesforce DevOps tools (e.g., Copado, AutoRabit, Gearset, Git‑based pipelines)
• Manage change sets, metadata deployments, version control merges, and CI/CD pipelines
• Automate deployments and validations to reduce manual error and improve reliability
• Validate deployments with appropriate pre‑ and post‑release checks

Environment & Configuration Management

• Coordinate sandbox strategy (refreshes, usage, access controls)
• Manage environment‑specific configurations, feature flags, and release toggles
• Partner with External teams & Development teams to ensure environment readiness

Continuous Improvement

• Identify and implement improvements to release processes, tooling, and automation
• Monitor deployment metrics (failure rates, lead time, rollback frequency)
• Drive standardization across teams and Salesforce orgs

Release Planning & Coordination

• Own the Salesforce release calendar across sandboxes, staging, and production
• Plan and coordinate major, minor, and hotfix releases across multiple teams
• Facilitate release readiness reviews, go/no‑go decisions, and rollback planning
• Ensure dependency tracking across features, integrations, and environments
• Produce release documentation, audit artifacts, and deployment evidence

Stakeholder Communication

• Communicate release scope, timelines, risks, and deployment outcomes
• Publish release notes and post‑release summaries
• Serve as the central point of coordination during release windows and incident response

Preferred Qualifications

• Salesforce certifications (e.g., Platform Developer I/II, DevOps certifications)
• Experience supporting large enterprise Salesforce footprints (multiple orgs, multiple clouds)
• Exposure to  Salesforce Data Cloud / Agentforce Deployments
• Familiarity with ServiceNow, Jira, or similar ITSM / ALM tools

Education

Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related Field

Anticipated Weekly Hours

40

Time Type

Full time

Pay Range

The typical pay range for this role is:

$101,970.00 - $203,940.00

This pay range represents the base hourly rate or base annual full-time salary for all positions in the job grade within which this position falls.  The actual base salary offer will depend on a variety of factors including experience, education, geography and other relevant factors.  This position is eligible for a CVS Health bonus, commission or short-term incentive program in addition to the base pay range listed above. 
 

Our people fuel our future. Our teams reflect the customers, patients, members and communities we serve and we are committed to fostering a workplace where every colleague feels valued and that they belong.

Great benefits for great people

We take pride in offering a comprehensive and competitive mix of pay and benefits that reflects our commitment to our colleagues and their families.

This full‑time position is eligible for a comprehensive benefits package designed to support the physical, emotional, and financial well‑being of colleagues and their families. The benefits for this position include medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, retirement savings options, wellness programs, and other resources, based on eligibility.

Additional details about available benefits are provided during the application process and on Benefits Moments.

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on: 07/29/2026

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state and local laws.