Forward Deployed Engineer

JUXT; England; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

JUXT in the United Kingdom seeks experienced Forward Deployed Engineers to evangelize Continuous Delivery, automated testing, and safe automated deployments. The role blends Software Engineering, DevOps and SRE, with a practical, hands-on focus (roughly 70% coding).

You will conduct targeted engagements, build test suites, upgrade runtimes, containerize apps, and champion secure, observable deployments across teams.

Qualifications

• Several years of experience with TDD using multiple frameworks.
• Strong grasp of automated testing approaches and selecting the best strategy (with AI support).
• Proficiency in JVM languages and TypeScript.
• Ability to write high quality, maintainable code.
• Knowledge of safe practices for critical systems, deployment architecture and observability.
• Experience with multiple CI/CD systems.
• Strong secure coding practices knowledge.
• Competent with Docker and OpenShift/Kubernetes.
• Active engagement with AI-driven coding.
• Familiar with Gradle, Maven, and npm.

Responsibilities

• Engage with development teams to improve release cadence.
• Hands-on work including building test suites and smoke tests.
• Source and mock data, implement data masking.
• Upgrade runtimes (Java or NPM) and containerize apps.
• Upgrade dependencies and ensure ongoing current state.
• Automate library updates with Renovate.
• Introduce best practice source control and branch management.
• Improve code review processes and security patterns.
• Automate deployment processes and database changes with Liquibase and Ansible.
• Establish standard observability and improve logging.

Skills

TDD

Automation testing

JVM languages

TypeScript

CI/CD

AI coding

Tools

Docker

OpenShift

Kubernetes

Gradle

Maven

npm

Job description

We’re seeking experienced, hands‑on Forward Deployed Engineers to act as evangelists for Continuous Delivery, automated testing, and safe, automated deployments. This is a practical role blending Software Engineering, DevOps and SRE, for practitioners who lead by example to make change safe and easy for development teams. The position is hands‑on, roughly 70% coding and configuration.

Essential functions

• Conduct targeted engagements with development teams facing challenges getting to safe and rapid release cadence, or struggling with vulnerability resolution.
• Perform hands‑on work including, but not limited to:
• Building suites of well‑designed tests, most of which can run locally, including smoke tests to be run as part of the deployment process.
• Sourcing and integrating appropriate test data, implementing data masking in lower environments
• Upgrading to supported runtimes (generally Java or NPM).
• Containerizing applications where feasible.
• Upgrading open‑source libraries to their latest available major versions (e.g., migrating from Spring 2). Upgrading to the latest version of all dependencies, whether installed software, libraries, internal code, base images or operating system. Implementing processes that allow us seamlessly to stay current
• Implementing continuous library updates using Renovate.
• Introducing best practice source control and branch management
• Improving code review processes
• Ensuring best practice security patterns, secrets management, authentication and authorisation
• Simplifying and automating application deployment processes, including automated database changes with Liquibase and installed software with Ansible.
• Introducing standard observability patterns.
• Overhauling exception handling and logging.

Qualifications

• Several years of experience with Test‑Driven Development (TDD) using multiple test frameworks.
• Excellent understanding of the different approaches to automated testing and an ability to choose the best approach and drive outcomes (with AI support).
• Proficiency in JVM languages and/or TypeScript.
• Ability to write high quality code with good taste.
• Understanding of safe practices for critical systems, including deployment architecture and observability
• At home with multiple continuous integration and deployment systems
• Excellent understanding of secure coding practices
• Competent with Docker, and Openshift/Kubernetes/or similar
• Actively embracing AI coding
• Comfortable with build tools such as Gradle, Maven, and npm.