Forward Deployed Engineer (Infrastructure)

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