Senior Java Engineer – Release & Security Automation

RE Partners; Belfast City District; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

RE Partners in Belfast is seeking a Senior Java Engineer to join a newly formed Deployment Security and Software Reliability Engineering team. The role is hands‑on, focusing on Java, CI/CD, dependency modernization, automated testing, software supply‑chain security, and containerization.

You will work with development teams to remove blockers and accelerate safe releases, while modernizing dependencies and improving testing and security tooling in a hybrid Belfast environment.

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 SARIF, SBOM tooling, and 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

Dependency management

Containerization

Kubernetes

SAST/SCA tooling

Tools

Gradle

Maven

OpenRewrite

Renovate

Snyk

Black Duck

Checkmarx

Job description

RE Partners in Belfast is seeking a Senior Java Engineer to join a newly formed Deployment Security and Software Reliability Engineering team. The role is hands‑on, focusing on Java, CI/CD, dependency modernization, automated testing, software supply‑chain security, and containerization.

You will work with development teams to remove blockers and accelerate safe releases, while modernizing dependencies and improving testing and security tooling in a hybrid Belfast environment.