Hybrid Senior Software Deployment Engineer – Contract

at Mindera

• Job title: Senior Software Deployment Engineer – Contract
• Job type: Contract
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: No Education Requirement
• Tech skills: Android, Distributed Systems, Docker, Java, JavaScript, Kubernetes, TypeScript
• Location requirements: Hybrid, London, United Kingdom

About the role

• Senior Software Deployment Engineer responsible for delivery, configuration, and testing in complex environments. Overseeing deployments and mentoring engineers with a focus on automation and reliability.

Responsibilities

• Mindera are currently looking for a Senior Software Deployment Engineer who can lead the delivery, configuration, testing, and rollout of applications and retail device solutions across complex, large-scale environments.
• In this role you will help shape deployment strategy, drive automation, improve reliability, mentor engineers, and work closely with product, platform, and engineering teams to ensure smooth, secure, and high-quality releases that reaches thousands of customers.
• This is a hybrid role and you will be expected to be on site in Bracknell 3 days per week.

Requirements

• **Deployment & Configuration Leadership**
• Lead end-to-end deployment processes across Dev, Test, UAT, Pre-Prod, and Production.
• Design scalable, repeatable deployment workflows and environment strategies.
• Drive automation across CI/CD pipelines using scripting, IaC, and tooling improvements.
• Ensure environment readiness, configuration integrity, and release reliability.
• Define and enforce best practices for deployment validation, smoke testing, and post-deploy checks.
• **Testing & Release Quality**
• Lead integration, regression, and end-to-end testing activities in collaboration with QA.
• Oversee testing of applications and retail hardware (POS, handhelds, Android devices).
• Implement robust pre-release validation frameworks, including monitoring, logging, and configuration verification.
• Lead root-cause analysis for release issues and ensure continuous quality improvements.
• **Operational Excellence**
• Act as a senior escalation point for deployment failures and complex environment issues.
• Perform advanced log analysis to diagnose deep technical problems across distributed systems.
• Drive improvements in observability, monitoring dashboards, alerting, and runbook quality.**• Ensure production systems meet operational, security, and compliance requirements.**• Support incident management, including leading technical investigations.
• **What you bring**
• Significant experience deploying and configuring software across complex,multi-environment estates.
• Strong expertise in CI/CD principles, release orchestration, and environment management.
• Proven ability to test applications and hardware across Windows, Android, and retail platforms.
• Experience leading containerised application deployments (Docker/Kubernetes).
• Advanced troubleshooting skills with logs, distributed systems, and cross-service integrations.
• Strong understanding of REST APIs, configuration dependencies, and backend integrations.
• Experience working with POS systems, retail devices, or large enterprise environments.
• Ability to read and understand code (JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, shell scripts).
• Ability to influence engineering decisions and drive improvements across teams

Benefits

• Competitive day rate