Senior Software Deployment Engineer - Contract - Ouside IR35
Location: London, England, United Kingdom
Department: Engineering
Workplace: hybrid
Description
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
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