Salesforce Release Manager (Copado)

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About The Position

As a Release Manager, you will be entrusted to lead enterprise-level software release orchestration supporting federal IT modernization programs. You will operate at the intersection of engineering, DevSecOps, cybersecurity, and program delivery to drive secure, compliant, and high-velocity releases across complex environments.

Requirements

6+ years of experience in Release Management, DevOps Engineering, or Software Delivery Leadership.
Experience in Salesforce with Copado
Experience managing complex, multi-team release cycles in enterprise environments.
Strong expertise with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and automation frameworks.
Hands-on experience with Jira, Git, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, or GitHub.
Experience using Copado for branching strategies, user stories, deployments, back promotions, and release planning.
Familiarity with Copado CI/CD capabilities including automated testing, quality gates, and pipeline management.
Experience managing Salesforce deployments across multiple environments (Development, QA, UAT, Staging, and Production).
Understanding of Salesforce metadata, source control, and package-based deployment methodologies.
Experience supporting change management, audit traceability, and release governance within regulated or enterprise environments.
Ability to troubleshoot deployment issues and coordinate remediation activities across development, QA, and platform teams.

Responsibilities

Architect, manage, and optimize release management lifecycles across development, testing, staging, and production environments.
Establish and enforce release governance frameworks including change control, versioning, rollback strategies, and audit traceability.
Integrate release processes with CI/CD pipelines using DevOps toolchains such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and Azure DevOps.
Ensure releases comply with federal security standards including NIST 800-53, FedRAMP, and VA security controls.
Coordinate across engineering, QA, product, cybersecurity, and government stakeholders to maintain release alignment.
Maintain release calendars, deployment schedules, and risk registers.
Lead go/no-go release decisions based on readiness criteria and risk assessments.