Forward Deployed Engineer

JUXT; Greater London; Vor Ort; GBP 90.000 - 120.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

JUXT is seeking experienced Forward Deployed Engineers to evangelize Continuous Delivery, automated testing, and safe automated deployments. This hands‑on role blends Software Engineering, DevOps and SRE, with ~70% coding and configuration.

Responsibilities include building test suites, upgrading runtimes, containerizing apps, keeping dependencies current, and implementing observability and secure coding practices. You will work across diverse teams to improve release velocity safely.

Qualifikationen

• Several years of experience with Test-Driven Development (TDD) using multiple test frameworks.
• Excellent understanding of automated testing approaches and driving 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.

Aufgaben

• Conduct targeted engagements with development teams to improve release cadence and vulnerability resolution.
• Perform hands‑on work including designing tests and running smoke tests as part of deployment.
• Source and integrate test data, implement data masking in lower environments.
• Upgrade runtimes and containerize applications where feasible.
• Upgrade libraries to latest major versions and keep dependencies current.
• Implement continuous library updates using Renovate and improve source control practices.
• Improve code review processes and ensure secure coding patterns.
• Automate deployment processes, including database changes with Liquibase and software with Ansible.
• Introduce standard observability patterns and overhaul exception handling and logging.

Kenntnisse

TDD

Automated testing

JVM/TypeScript

Code quality

CI/CD

Secure coding

Docker

Kubernetes/OpenShift

AI coding

Build tools

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Liquibase

Ansible

Renovate

Gradle

Maven

npm

Jobbeschreibung

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.