Job Description

Forward Deployed Engineer (Infrastructure)

Hybrid - Palo Alto

Clearance: Secret or TS

About the company:

A leading national security software company is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer (Infrastructure) to support high-stakes government environments. This team is responsible for ensuring seamless operations of mission-critical platforms across cloud, on-prem, commercial, and classified networks. In this role, you’ll build, maintain, and scale high-performance infrastructure that supports defense and intelligence missions.

Core Responsibilities

• Operate and support complex software systems across government and commercial environments
• Perform infrastructure migrations and deploy new platforms at customer sites
• Troubleshoot, optimize, and debug distributed services with an eye toward long-term scalability
• Automate manual workflows and eliminate operational toil through scripting and tooling
• Provide fast, high-quality technical support during production incidents
• Participate in a shared on-call rotation with the engineering team

Experience

• 1–3 years in infrastructure engineering, DevOps, or site reliability roles
• Experience with system architecture in cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP), on-prem systems, and container platforms (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Familiarity with large-scale distributed systems, observability, and config management

Skills

• Strong ability to read and comprehend code
• Skilled in diagnosing and resolving complex systems
• Automation-focused mindset with experience writing scripts or infrastructure code
• Excellent communication skills and team collaboration
• Comfortable operating independently in fast-moving, mission-critical environments

Salary: $135K - $200K + Equity + Benefits

Sound interesting? Apply now!

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