Working Title: Senior Salesforce DevOps Engineer
Job Class: Information Technology Specialist 5
Agency: Minnesota IT Services
Job ID : 96056
Location : St. Paul
Telework Eligible : Yes, #LI-Hybrid
Full/Part Time : Full-Time
Regular/Temporary : Unlimited
Who May Apply : Open to all qualified job seekers
Date Posted : 09/05/2026
Closing Date : 09/21/2026
Hiring Agency/Seniority Unit : Minnesota IT Services
Division/Unit : Department of Human Services (DHS)
Work Shift/Work Hours : Day Shift
Days of Work : Monday - Friday
Travel Required : No
Salary Range: $40.43 - $69.11 / hourly; $84,417 - $144,301 / annually
Job Class Option : Application
Classified Status : Classified
Bargaining Unit/Union : 214 - MN Assoc of Professional Empl/MAPE
FLSA Status : Exempt - Professional
Designated in Connect 700 Program for Applicants with Disabilities (https://mn.gov/mmb/careers/diverse-workforce/people-with-disabilities/connect700/) : Yes
The work you'll do is more than just a job.
At the State of Minnesota, employees play a critical role in developing policies, providing essential services, and working to improve the well-being and quality of life for all Minnesotans. The State of Minnesota is committed to equity and inclusion, and invests in employees by providing benefits, support resources, and training and development opportunities.
Join the 2,800+ professionals of Minnesota IT Services (https://mn.gov/mnit/about-mnit/careers/) (MNIT) who connect Minnesotans to services that will improve their lives. This position serves our partners at Minnesota's largest state agency, the Department of Human Services (DHS). The MNIT DHS team supports complex and varied technical needs, including systems that provide health care coverage, deliver child protection and welfare services, and provide support for Minnesotans with special needs including mental illness, chemical dependencies, and physical or developmental disabilities.
Salesforce is a complex, cloud-based platform requiring specialized expertise to optimize its utilization as an application development environment. The production of efficient, stable, and secure Salesforce applications demands a deep understanding of both declarative and programmatic development, as well as robust DevOps practices. As the Salesforce DevOps Engineer you are responsible for the architecture, design, implementation, and ongoing maintenance of the Salesforce DevOps environment within the MNIT DHS and MNsure enterprise. This position is pivotal in ensuring the efficient, secure, and reliable delivery of Salesforce applications that align with agency strategic objectives. By establishing and maintaining standardized DevOps practices, this position will contribute to the optimization of development, testing, and deployment processes. This position requires a deep understanding of GitHub CI/CD capabilities, DevOps methodologies, and industry best practices to effectively support the agency's mission.
This position requires an employee to work onsite at 540 Cedar St. Saint Paul, Minnesota at least 50% [or more or less if space limitations remain] of the time, with limited telework available. Telework (https://mn.gov/mmb-stat/policies/1422-telework.pdf) eligibility depends on residence:
Candidates living in Minnesota or within 50 miles of the worksite in a bordering state (Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin) may telework up to 50%.
Minnesota residents living more than 50 miles from the worksite may be eligible to telework more than 50%.
Candidates living 50 miles or more from the worksite in a bordering state may work onsite 100% or may be telework eligible if relocating within 50 miles.
Minimum Qualifications
Position requires a minimum of five (5) years of hands-on IT CI/CD experience supporting the development, configuration, deployment, administration, integration, or ongoing maintenance of enterprise applications in development, testing, and production environments.
Experience must include:
Experience with GitHub DevOps and application deployment processes, including designing, implementing, maintaining, or troubleshooting CI/CD pipelines used to validate, test, and deploy application changes.
Experience managing environments throughout the application development lifecycle, including sandboxes, development, test, and production environments; environment provisioning and configuration; sandbox refreshes; access and permissions; deployment coordination; environment governance; and resolution of environment-related issues.
Experience using git-based version control and CI/CD technologies in a development environment, including source control, branching strategies, pull-request workflows, code or metadata integration, automated validation, and deployment using Azure DevOps, GitHub, GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins, Gearset, Copado, or comparable enterprise DevOps technologies.
Experience developing or maintaining automation supporting development, administration, or deployment activities using scripting or programming languages such as Python, Bash, PowerShell, Java, Apex, or comparable technologies, including integration of automation into CI/CD processes.
Experience providing technical leadership and troubleshooting support for application delivery, including diagnosing deployment, pipeline, environment, application, or production issues; coordinating resolution across development, testing, operations, security, and business teams; providing technical guidance; and communicating technical decisions, risks, and implementation activities to affected stakeholders.
Demonstrated ability to communicate clearly and effectively in a manner that facilitates mutual understanding.
Customer-focused approach grounded in active listening, empathy, and solution-oriented problem-solving to deliver positive user experiences.
Education in Information Technology (IT) or an IT related field may substitute for experience as follows: a master's degree for eighteen (18) months of experience; a bachelor's degree for one (1) year; and an associate's degree for six (6) months.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience designing and implementing enterprise DevOps architecture and standards, including CI/CD architecture, branching strategies, release processes, environment governance, automated testing, deployment controls, and integration with enterprise DevOps practices, and incorporation of automated security, and accessibility scanning tools (such as Veracode and a a11Y)
Experience with Salesforce security and compliance, including Salesforce security configuration, access controls, vulnerability remediation, data protection, security assessments, and implementation of security requirements in collaboration with information security teams, including interpreting and responding to results from automated security scanning tools such as Veracode.
Experience monitoring and optimizing Salesforce application performance, including performance metrics, monitoring tools or dashboards, bottleneck analysis, load or performance testing, implementation of performance improvements.
Experience working within Agile application development environments and coordinating development, testing, release, deployment, and production-support activities across multiple technical teams.
Strongly Preferred Qualifications
Experience with Salesforce Public Sector Solutions and/or Salesforce Service Cloud, including development, configuration, deployment, administration, integration, or DevOps support. These Salesforce products are expressly identified in the PD.
Experience serving as a senior Salesforce DevOps technical lead, including establishing Salesforce DevOps standards and practices, providing technical direction to development teams, reviewing deployment and release processes, resolving complex Salesforce DevOps issues, and mentoring developers or administrators in CI/CD, version control, and deployment practices. The PD identifies this position as a Senior DevOps resource and mentor to junior developers.
Experience supporting Salesforce within a large enterprise environment involving multiple applications, development teams, environments, and concurrent releases, including responsibility for coordinating cross-team dependencies, enterprise DevOps standards, production changes, security requirements, and application availability.
Additional Requirements
It is the policy of Minnesota IT Services that a successful candidate must pass all legally required checks prior to employment which may consist of the following:
SEMA4 Records Check (applies to current and past state employees only)
Criminal History Check
Reference Check
Social Security and Address Verification
Other legally required checks
Minnesota IT Services does not participate in the federal E-Verify program. Minnesota IT Services is unable to sponsor applicants for work visas, including F-1 STEM OPT extensions, and cannot complete Form I-9 or any other documentation requiring employer participation in E-Verify. All applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States at the time of application.
AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER
Minnesota State Colleges and Universities is an Equal Opportunity employer/educator committed to the principles of diversity. We prohibit discrimination against qualified individuals based on their race, sex, color, creed, religion, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, or membership in a local commission as defined by law. As an affirmative action employer, we actively seek and encourage applications from women, minorities, persons with disabilities, and individuals with protected veteran status.
Reasonable accommodations will be made to all qualified applicants with disabilities. If you are an individual with a disability who needs assistance or cannot access the online job application system, please contact the job information line at 651-259-3637 or email careers@state.mn.us . Please indicate what assistance is needed.
