Sr. Release Engineer & Administration Manager (Salesforce)

Description

Who We Are

Through our service brands Hyundai Motor Finance, Genesis Finance, and Kia Finance, Hyundai Capital America offers a wide range of financial products tailored to meet the needs of Hyundai, Genesis, and Kia customers and dealerships.We provide vehicle financing, leasing, subscription, and insurance solutions to over 3 million consumers and businesses. Embodying our commitment to grow, innovate, and diversify, we strive to reimagine the customer and dealer experience and launch innovative new products that broaden our market reach. We believe that success comes from within and are proud to support our team members through skill development and career advancement. Hyundai Capital America is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to creating a diverse and inclusive culture for our workforce. We are a values-driven company dedicated to supporting both internal and external communities through volunteering, philanthropy, and the empowerment of our Employee Resource Groups. Together, we strive to be the leader in financing freedom of movement.

We Take Care of Our People

Along with competitive pay, as an employee of HCA, you are eligible for:

·Medical, dental, and vision plans with no-cost and low-cost options

·Annual employer HSA contribution

·401(k) matching and immediate vesting

·Vehicle purchase and lease discounts, plus monthly vehicle allowances by job level:

oAssociate / Sr. Associate: $350

oManager / Sr. Manager: $600

oDirector: $800

oExecutive Director: $900

oVP or Above: $1,000

·100% employer-paid life and disability insurance

·No-cost health and wellbeing programs, including a gym benefit

·Six weeks of paid parental leave

·Paid Volunteer Time Off, plus a company donation to a charity of your choice

What to Expect

The Sr. Release Engineer & Administration Manager (Salesforce) is responsible for owning the end-to-end Salesforce release lifecycle and core platform administration.This role serves as a technical expert and execution leader, ensuring reliable deployments, platform stability, and strong governance across a complex Salesforce ecosystem.

What You Will Do

1.DevOps & Release Management

·Manage DevOps across multiple Salesforce orgs including:

oPipelines, environments, and promotion paths

oUser stories, commits, and deployment artifacts

oAutomated validations, test level enforcement, and rollback strategies

·Define and enforce branching and deployment strategies aligned with DevOps best practices.

·Manage release cycles, including planned releases, hotfixes, emergency fixes, and freeze windows.

·Ensure all deployments meet quality gates (test coverage, static code analysis, approvals.

·Troubleshoot Copado deployment failures, conflicts, and metadata issues.

·Partner with Copado support and Salesforce teams for upgrades, enhancements, and best practices.

·Act as a senior technical advisor to Product, Development, QA, and Business teams on release feasibility and platform constraints.

·Participate in design and planning discussions to influence solutions that align with release strategy and platform best practices.

2.Salesforce Administration & Configuration Governance

·Lead Salesforce administrative operations, including:

oUser provisioning, roles, profiles, permission sets

oSecurity controls, MFA, login IP relaxations

oAudit logging, monitoring, and compliance support

·Perform advanced Salesforce administration across applicable clouds (e.g., Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Experience Cloud, Industry Clouds).

·Design and maintain scalable configurations including objects, fields, automation, validation rules, flows, and security controls.

·Coordinate Salesforce seasonal releases and mandatory platform updates.

·Ensure compliance with enterprise security, audit, and data protection requirements.

·Own operational runbooks and incident response for Salesforce production issues.

·Support audits and internal controls by ensuring changes align with governance, security, and compliance requirements.

3.Environment Strategy & Platform Stability

·Own Salesforce environment strategy (Dev, SIT, UAT, Pre‑Prod, Prod).

·Govern sandbox creation, refresh schedules, and data seeding strategies.

·Manage forward and backward promotions using Copado while keeping multi orgs in sync.

·Oversee production deployment users, access provisioning, and segregation of duties.

·Ensure platform changes are deployed with minimal disruption and clear communication to stakeholders.

4.Continuous Improvement & DevOps Optimization

·Identify opportunities to improve release efficiency, automation, and reliability.

·Evaluate and recommend Salesforce DevOps tools, processes, and best practices.

·Establish and track operational metrics such as deployment success, defect escapes, and rollback

·frequency.

·Stay current on Salesforce seasonal releases, DevOps advancements, and platform changes.

Qualifications

What You Will Bring

·Minimum 8 years progressive IT experience with 5+ years’ experience with the Salesforce platform and supporting enterprise-scale Salesforce implementations with multiple stakeholders.

·Experience with Copado DevOps tool in an enterprise

environment.