Senior Java Engineer — Release Automation & Security

jobboard; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

jobboard is seeking an experienced Senior Java Engineer to join a Deployment Security & Software Reliability team supporting a world-leading financial institution. You will shape releases to be faster, safer, and more secure, working hands-on with Java, CI/CD, containerization, and software supply-chain security.

The role focuses on reducing barriers to rapid delivery, improving tooling and automation, and collaborating across development teams to implement robust release processes in a hybrid

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with strong hands-on expertise in Java.
• Strong experience designing, developing, troubleshooting, and improving enterprise applications.
• Strong understanding of modern Java / Spring Boot development and architecture.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD, build pipelines, and software release processes.
• Experience with Gradle and/or Maven and dependency management.
• Experience with automated testing and improving release confidence.
• Experience with dependency upgrades and application modernization.
• Understanding of application security, vulnerability remediation, and software supply-chain security.
• Experience with static analysis, code quality gates, SAST/SCA tooling, or platforms such as Snyk, Black Duck, or Checkmarx.
• Familiarity with SBOM concepts, CycloneDX, or SARIF.
• Experience with containerized applications and Kubernetes environments.
• Ability to work across application code, configuration, builds, testing, and deployment processes.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work directly with development teams to understand problems and drive solutions through implementation.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, troubleshoot, and improve enterprise Java applications and services.
• Work directly with development teams to identify and resolve technical barriers to safe and rapid software delivery.
• Improve and modernize applications through dependency upgrades and automated code transformation, using tools such as Renovate and OpenRewrite.
• Improve CI/CD build and release processes, including release branching, cascading merges, semantic or calendar versioning, and deployment automation.
• Build and improve automated, local, and smoke testing.
• Work with build and package ecosystems including Gradle, Maven, npm, and related tooling.
• Integrate and improve static code analysis, code quality gates, and application security scanning.
• Support integrations with tools such as Snyk, Black Duck, and Checkmarx.
• Work with SBOM tooling, CycloneDX to improve software supply-chain visibility and security.
• Support and improve containerized and Kubernetes-based application deployments.
• Troubleshoot complex issues across application code, dependencies, builds, configuration, testing, and deployment processes.
• Contribute to reusable engineering practices and automation that can be adopted across development teams.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

CI/CD

Build pipelines

Software architecture

Communication

Tools

Gradle

Maven

Renovate

OpenRewrite

Job description

jobboard is seeking an experienced Senior Java Engineer to join a Deployment Security & Software Reliability team supporting a world-leading financial institution. You will shape releases to be faster, safer, and more secure, working hands-on with Java, CI/CD, containerization, and software supply-chain security.

The role focuses on reducing barriers to rapid delivery, improving tooling and automation, and collaborating across development teams to implement robust release processes in a hybrid