Forward-Deployed Engineer: Security & Modernization

Luxoft; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

DXC Luxoft Financial Services is seeking an experienced Forward Deployed Engineer to help modernise business-critical applications within a banking transformation programme. This hands-on role combines Software Engineering, DevOps, SRE, Test Automation, Application Security and Legacy Modernisation.

Working directly with development teams, you'll tackle complex challenges around security remediation, release reliability, testing, observability and platform modernisation.

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on software engineering experience within enterprise environments.
• Strong Java/JVM development background with recent coding experience.
• Deep expertise within the Spring ecosystem and modernising Java apps.
• Solid understanding of Test-Driven Development (TDD) and automated testing.
• Experience building and integrating testing into CI/CD pipelines.
• Secure coding practices and vulnerability remediation experience.
• Docker and container-based deployments; OpenShift/Kubernetes familiarity.
• Linux administration experience; Maven/Gradle/npm tooling knowledge.
• Advanced Git workflows and source control best practices.
• Proven ability to own projects from assessment to production deployment.

Responsibilities

• Lead engagements focused on security, reliability, testing, and modernisation.
• Assess architecture, CI/CD pipelines, dependencies, and risk.
• Write and debug production-quality code and configurations.
• Define remediation roadmaps with measurable outcomes.
• Build automated testing frameworks using TDD principles.
• Design and optimise CI/CD pipelines for safe releases.
• Containerise apps with Docker; support OpenShift deployments.
• Improve observability, logging, monitoring and diagnostics.

Skills

Java/JVM

Spring ecosystem

TDD

CI/CD pipelines

Docker

OpenShift

Kubernetes

Linux administration

Git workflows

Security testing

Tools

Maven/Gradle

npm

OpenShift

Kubernetes

Git

Ansible

Splunk/ELK

Dynatrace/AppDynamics

WebSphere/WebLogic

Job description

DXC Luxoft Financial Services is seeking an experienced Forward Deployed Engineer to help modernise business-critical applications within a banking transformation programme. This hands-on role combines Software Engineering, DevOps, SRE, Test Automation, Application Security and Legacy Modernisation.

Working directly with development teams, you'll tackle complex challenges around security remediation, release reliability, testing, observability and platform modernisation.