Salesforce DevOps Engineer in Edinburgh

This role is graded as: Senior Associate - Regulatory

About the FCA and team

We regulate financial services firms in the UK, to keep financial markets fair, thriving and effective. By joining us, you will play a key part in protecting consumers, driving economic growth, and shaping the future of UK finance.

The Data, Technology and Innovation (DTI) division enables the FCA to be a digital-first, data-led smart regulator by delivering a secure, agile, and cost-effective technology and data ecosystem that drives better decisions, transparency, and operational efficiency.

Sitting within DTI, the Digital Systems team delivers the systems that enable the FCA to be a more effective and smarter regulator. The DevOps Team manages and optimises DevSecOps platforms, focusing on secure, high-performing deployment pipelines and scalable technical solutions aligned with strategic goals. Core technologies include Salesforce and Copado for case management and AWS for cloud infrastructure.

Role responsibilities

• Provide DevOps service to the Product Group, building, improving and operating Salesforce cloud infrastructure and applications.
• Be responsible to ensure that all the Salesforce environments used in route to Live are managed, controlled and maintained to a high standard to support the Product Group's change and run needs.
• Deliver and support cloud services that meet company standards, ensuring quality and reliability.
• Monitor cloud platforms for compliance with security and design rules, managing incidents and changes effectively.
• Oversee environment management by maintaining inventories, scheduling usage and aligning test systems with live environments.
• Collaborate with project and support teams to resolve issues, address risks and improve infrastructure usability.
• Test and validate environments to ensure they meet standards, while continuously enhancing platform performance and cost-efficiency.
• Develop and maintain environment management processes, promote security compliance and support adoption across teams.

Skills required

Minimum

• Demonstrated experience as a Salesforce DevOps Engineer with experience as a Salesforce Administrator within a large organisation.
• Extensive knowledge of DevOps for Salesforce cloud infrastructure, DevOps concepts, methods and tooling, agile delivery methods, collaboration tooling with Kanban and Scrum teams, product management, operational service acceptance requirements, ITIL enterprise operations frameworks.
• Manage technical deliverables and work with suppliers to implement solutions.

Essential

• A Salesforce admin or Developer certification.
• Significant experience with branching models, automated deployment and release processes, and technologies such as Git, PowerShell/Bash scripting, Jenkins or GitHub Actions; Copado familiarity is preferred but optional.
• Solid understanding of collaboration tools such as JIRA, monitoring and logging platforms like Datadog, and familiarity with industry standards and how large organisations design, build, and run critical systems using Agile/DevOps practices.
• Demonstrated ability to lead post-incident analyses to determine root causes and implement preventive actions.
• Effective communication skills and the ability to work effectively with developers and product owners to discuss and resolve issues.
• Experience with Agile software development practices and Scrum methodology; involvement in project lifecycles with knowledge of Programme Management and DevOps methodologies, including frameworks such as Prince2 and Agile; experience coaching others in environment-management frameworks, processes and procedures.
• Experience overseeing outsourced and offshore infrastructure operations; practical experience with Salesforce DevOps tools such as Copado; skilled in authoring AWS cloud infrastructure code to support enterprise-scale architectures.

Benefits

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
• Hybrid model where employees work a minimum of 40% in the office each month (expectation of 50% for senior leaders). Changing from September to a minimum of 50% in the office each month (expectation of 60% for Directors and Executive Directors).
• Non-contributory pension (8–12% depending on age) and life assurance at eight times your salary.
• Private healthcare with Bupa, income protection, and 24/7 Employee Assistance.
• 35 hours of paid volunteering annually.
• A flexible benefits scheme designed around your lifestyle.

Our values & culture

Our colleagues are the key to our success as a regulator. We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture: one that’s free from discrimination and bias, celebrates difference, and supports colleagues to deliver at their best. We believe that our differences and similarities enable us to be a better organisation – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation, and delivers better regulation.

If you require any adjustments due to a disability or condition, your recruiter is here to help - reach out for tailored support. We welcome diverse working styles and aim to find flexible solutions that suit both the role and individual needs, including options like part-time and job sharing where applicable.

Disability confident: Our hiring approach

We’re proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, and therefore, people or individuals with disabilities and long-term conditions who best meet the minimum criteria for a role will go through to the next stage of the recruitment process. In cases of high application volumes we may progress applicants whose experience most closely matches the role's key requirements.

Useful information and timelines

Timeline:

• Advert Closing Date: 15 March at 11:59pm
• CV Review/Shortlist: 17 March
• Interviews W/C: from 24 March

Your Recruiter will discuss the process in detail with you during screening for the role, therefore, please make them aware if you are going to be unavailable for any date during this time.