Senior Forward-Deployed Engineer: Security & CI/CD

Luxoft Poland; Warszawa; On-site; PLN 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Luxoft Poland seeks a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to lead hands-on engagements improving security, testing, release reliability, and resilience of banking applications. The role blends software engineering, DevOps, SRE, test automation, and legacy modernization, with about 70% hands-on coding and configuration.

The Expert FDE will work directly with client teams, define remediation approaches, implement changes, and enable client engineers to sustain improved practices across projects.

Qualifications

• Hands-on software engineering experience focused on production applications.
• Expertise in Java/JVM and Spring; strong TypeScript skills are a plus.
• Proficient in TDD, automated testing, and CI/CD integration.
• Experience with Docker/OpenShift, Linux, Maven/Gradle/npm, and modern tooling.
• Ability to lead technical workshops and communicate effectively with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead targeted technical engagements addressing security, testing, release, resilience, and legacy technology challenges with development teams.
• Assess application code, dependencies, runtime environment, test coverage, deployment architecture, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and operational risks.
• Write, debug, review, and enhance production-quality code and configuration throughout engagements.
• Define and implement practical modernization and remediation plans with clear priorities, dependencies, risks, and measurable outcomes.
• Develop or improve unit, integration, component, contract, and deployment smoke tests using Test-Driven Development practices.
• Select appropriate automation-testing approaches per application and drive implementation, including the use of AI coding assistance.
• Source suitable test data and implement secure data masking for lower environments.
• Conduct vulnerability triage, root-cause and dependency reachability analyses, remediation prioritization, secure code changes, and regression testing.
• Upgrade Java, JVM, NPM, Spring, open-source libraries, internal dependencies, installed software, base images, and operating systems to supported versions.
• Establish sustainable dependency-management processes with continuous library updates using Renovate or equivalent tools.
• Modernize legacy applications and middleware stacks, including those deployed on WebSphere or WebLogic.
• Containerize applications using Docker and support deployment to OpenShift.
• Improve source control, branch management, pull-request, and code-review practices.
• Design, implement, and optimize CI/CD pipelines to ensure safe, repeatable, automated, and easy releases.
• Automate installed software and environment changes using Ansible or equivalent configuration management tools.
• Implement secure coding patterns, secrets management, authentication, authorization, and least-privilege controls.
• Introduce standard observability patterns, including structured logging, application metrics, tracing, dashboards, alerting, and actionable health checks.
• Enhance exception handling, operational diagnostics, rollback procedures, and production-validation controls.
• Design or improve resilient deployment architectures, including hot-hot cross-datacenter deployments where required.
• Lead technical workshops and effectively communicate technical decisions, risks, blockers, trade-offs, and progress to engineering, security, architecture, operations, project management, and stakeholders.
• Provide technical leadership through code reviews, coaching, reusable standards, documentation, and knowledge transfer to development teams.
• Take ownership from initial assessment through implementation, production deployment, stabilization, and handover.

Skills

Java/JVM

TypeScript

Test-Driven Development

CI/CD

AI-assisted coding tools

Tools

Maven

Gradle

npm

Docker

OpenShift

Git

Job description

Luxoft Poland seeks a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to lead hands-on engagements improving security, testing, release reliability, and resilience of banking applications. The role blends software engineering, DevOps, SRE, test automation, and legacy modernization, with about 70% hands-on coding and configuration.

The Expert FDE will work directly with client teams, define remediation approaches, implement changes, and enable client engineers to sustain improved practices across projects.