Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

Candidates must reside in one of our approved hiring hubs: DC/Maryland/Virginia; Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill, NC; Denver/Colorado Springs, CO; Dallas/Fort Worth, TXFull-TimeSenior

SalaryThe base salary for this position will fall between $160,000 and $200,000. This opportunity includes potential eligibility for equity awards and discretionary bonuses.

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Experience: 7-10 years of experience in systems deployment, DevSecOps, or platform engineering in regulated/classified government environments
Required Skills: PythonGCPKubernetesLinuxTerraform

Requirements

Have 7-10 years of experience in systems deployment, DevSecOps, or platform engineering in regulated or classified government environments.
Demonstrate ownership of complex, mission-critical deployments.
Have hands-on experience deploying and hardening workloads across AWS GovCloud or Commercial, Microsoft Azure Government, and Google Cloud.
Have Infrastructure-as-Code experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, or an equivalent tool, including work tailored to DoD Impact Levels 2-6 and JWICS environments.
Have expertise securing Kubernetes, OpenShift, or equivalent container platforms, including image hardening, admission controls, network policies, and runtime security.
Have experience implementing logging, monitoring, and alerting stacks such as ELK, Splunk, or Prometheus/Grafana.
Have expert-level Linux server administration proficiency, including Talos or Red Hat, and experience deploying and maintaining Kubernetes on cloud platforms and varied compute hardware.
Have experience mentoring engineers, leading technical design reviews, or serving as a technical lead on customer-facing engagements.
Have scripting and automation ability in Go, Rust, Python, or Bash, and experience building internal tooling.
Hold an active DoD Top Secret/SCI clearance or be eligible for one; active clearance is strongly preferred.
Be a U.S. citizen.

Responsibilities

Own end-to-end technical delivery for complex government and defense engagements, including architecting, deploying, and sustaining Game Warden and integrated customer workloads.
Make architectural and risk-tradeoff decisions and serve as the senior technical escalation point and primary customer-facing authority.
Lead and mentor Forward Deployed and DevSecOps Engineers, review designs, and establish technical standards and playbooks.
Deploy and harden secure Kubernetes-based infrastructure across customer cloud and on-premises environments.
Translate field experience and deployment challenges into product and platform improvements with Engineering and Product leadership.
Drive accreditation and continuous ATO outcomes with the security and compliance team, producing and validating evidence against applicable controls.
Own remediation of findings from third-party assessments and penetration tests.
Maintain configuration management, security documentation, and audit-ready evidence, and support customer security reviews and audits.
Travel to client locations for deployments, updates, troubleshooting, exercises, integration, and training.

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