Frontline DevOps & Testing Engineer (Hybrid)

Grid Dynamics; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Pension

Flexible hybrid work

Professional development

Corporate events

Well-equipped office

Job summary

Grid Dynamics is seeking experienced Forward Deployed Engineers to evangelize Continuous Delivery, automated testing, and safe deployments. The role blends software engineering, DevOps and SRE with roughly 70% coding and configuration.

You will drive testing, data masking, runtime upgrades, containerization, and CD pipelines. Ideal candidates have several years in TDD, JVM or TypeScript, Docker/OpenShift/Kubernetes, and strong security practices.

Qualifications

• Proven experience with Test-Driven Development across multiple frameworks.
• Ability to select testing strategies and drive outcomes with AI support.
• Proficiency in JVM languages and/or TypeScript.
• Strong understanding of secure coding practices and deployment architectures.

Responsibilities

• Engage development teams to enable safe, rapid releases and vulnerability resolution.
• Hands-on work: build test suites, run smoke tests, and manage data masking in lower environments.
• Upgrade runtimes and migrate dependencies to latest major versions; keep base images current.
• Containerize applications where feasible and implement Continuous Delivery pipelines.
• Introduce and enforce best practice source control and branch management; improve code reviews.
• Ensure observability, logging, and exception handling are robust across deployments.
• Implement resilient cross‑datacenter deployment strategies and automated DB changes with Liquibase.

Skills

JVM languages

TypeScript

CI/CD

TDD

AI coding

Build tools

Linux

Security

Code quality

Observability

Tools

Docker

OpenShift

Kubernetes

Liquibase

Ansible

Renovate

Gradle

Maven

npm

Git

Job description

Grid Dynamics is seeking experienced Forward Deployed Engineers to evangelize Continuous Delivery, automated testing, and safe deployments. The role blends software engineering, DevOps and SRE with roughly 70% coding and configuration.

You will drive testing, data masking, runtime upgrades, containerization, and CD pipelines. Ideal candidates have several years in TDD, JVM or TypeScript, Docker/OpenShift/Kubernetes, and strong security practices.