Forward Deployment Engineer

Grid Dynamics; Greater London; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bleeding-edge projects

Competitive salary

Flexible schedule

Medical insurance

Sports

Corporate social events

Professional development

Well-equipped office

Job summary

Grid Dynamics is seeking a Senior Forward Deployment Engineer to join an internal enablement practice embedded within a Tier 1 global investment bank. You will deploy directly into application teams to reduce release friction, modernize pipelines, and elevate engineering standards across mission-critical systems.

You will lead initiatives in test automation, CI/CD, and secure coding practices, while containerizing apps and upgrading dependencies.

Qualifications

• Experience with Test-Driven Development (TDD) across multiple test frameworks.
• Ability to select and drive automated testing strategies with AI support.
• Proficiency in JVM languages and/or TypeScript.
• Ability to write high-quality, maintainable code with good taste.
• Strong understanding of secure coding practices for critical systems.

Responsibilities

• Engage with development teams to enable rapid, safe releases and improve vulnerability handling.
• Build and maintain test suites and data provisioning, including data masking.
• Upgrade runtimes and containerize applications where feasible.
• Implement and improve continuous delivery pipelines and automated database changes (Liquibase).
• Introduce standard observability patterns and robust logging/security patterns.

Skills

TDD

Automated testing

JVM/TypeScript

Code quality

CI/CD

Security best practices

Docker

Kubernetes/OpenShift

AI coding

Build tools

Linux

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes/OpenShift

Gradle

Maven

npm

Job description

We are seeking a senior Forward Deployment Engineer to join a high-impact, internal enablement practice embedded within a Tier 1 global investment bank. In this role, you will work on the front lines of software engineering, deploying directly into application teams to eliminate release friction, modernize pipeline architectures, and elevate engineering standards across mission-critical systems.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Implementing continuous delivery pipelines.
• 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.
• Implementing resilient cross-datacenter deployment strategies.

Requirements

• 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.
• Competent with (RedHat ) Linux

We offer

• Opportunity to work on bleeding-edge projects
• Work with a highly motivated and dedicated team
• Competitive salary
• Flexible schedule
• Benefits package - medical insurance, sports
• Corporate social events
• Professional development opportunities
• Well-equipped office

About Us

Grid Dynamics (NASDAQ: GDYN) is a leading provider of technology consulting, platform and product engineering, AI, and advanced analytics services. Fusing technical vision with business acumen, we solve the most pressing technical challenges and enable positive business outcomes for enterprise companies undergoing business transformation. A key differentiator for Grid Dynamics is our 8 years of experience and leadership in enterprise AI, supported by profound expertise and ongoing investment in data, analytics, cloud & DevOps, application modernization and customer experience. Founded in 2006, Grid Dynamics is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices across the Americas, Europe, and India.