Senior Forward Deployment Engineer - Hands-On SRE & Security

Luxoft Poland; Warszawa; On-site; PLN 240,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

Luxoft Poland is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to improve security, release reliability, and resilience of business-critical banking apps. You will lead hands-on engagements with development teams, implement modernization and remediation, and drive secure coding practices across Java/JVM and TypeScript projects.

You'll build automated tests, enhance CI/CD pipelines, containerize applications with Docker/OpenShift, and coach engineers toward sustainable engineering standards while

Qualifications

• The role demands extensive hands-on software engineering experience, with focus on developing and maintaining production applications.
• Expertise in Java and JVM-based development is essential, while strong TypeScript skills are valued for Node.js-centric projects.
• Proficiency with the Spring ecosystem and modernizing Java enterprise applications is required.
• Recent personal involvement in coding, debugging, and reviewing production code is expected.
• Experience with Test-Driven Development across multiple testing frameworks and CI/CD integration is necessary.
• Security-focused practices, vulnerability remediation, and dependency risk analysis are required.
• Experience upgrading runtimes, frameworks, libraries, and container platforms (Docker/OpenShift) is important.

Responsibilities

• Lead targeted engagements addressing security, testing, release, resilience, and legacy technology challenges with development teams.
• Assess application code, dependencies, runtime, 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 modernization and remediation plans with clear priorities, risks, and measurable outcomes.
• Develop or improve unit, integration, and deployment tests using Test-Driven Development practices.
• Drive automation approaches including AI coding assistance and secure data handling.

Skills

Java/JVM development

TypeScript

CI/CD

Test-Driven Development

Secure coding

Linux system administration

Git workflows

Observability

AI coding tools

Production debugging

Tools

Maven/Gradle

npm

Docker

OpenShift

Kubernetes

Renovate/Dependabot

Job description

Luxoft Poland is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to improve security, release reliability, and resilience of business-critical banking apps. You will lead hands-on engagements with development teams, implement modernization and remediation, and drive secure coding practices across Java/JVM and TypeScript projects.

You'll build automated tests, enhance CI/CD pipelines, containerize applications with Docker/OpenShift, and coach engineers toward sustainable engineering standards while