DevOps Release Engineer

Lead release planning, validation, deployment, production cutovers, and post-deployment support across Dev, QA, UAT, and Production environments.
- Design, implement, and optimize CI/CD pipelines for Salesforce metadata, code, configurations, and Vlocity/OmniStudio components.
- Manage Copado user stories, commits, validations, promotions, back-promotions, deployment pipelines, and release governance.
- Define and enforce Git branching strategies, pull requests, code reviews, tagging, and version-control standards.
- Resolve deployment failures, merge conflicts, test-class errors, metadata dependencies, and environment synchronization issues.
- Manage sandbox strategy, org refreshes, post-refresh configurations, back-promotions, and environment alignment.
- Coordinate code freezes, defect prioritization, release communications, go-live activities, and hotfix deployments.
- Build release dashboards, deployment reports, audit documentation, and release runbooks.
- Collaborate with developers, QA teams, architects, product owners, and business stakeholders.
- Train development and QA teams on Copado, Git workflows, and deployment troubleshooting.