Job Title: Forward Deployed DevOps Engineer

Company Name: a37

Job Details: RemoteFull,Time

Job Url: https://hiring.cafe/viewjob/fwuq6zh5c5rdexe4

Job Description: Posted 7mo agoForward Deployed DevOps Engineer@ a37View All JobsWebsiteUnited StatesRemoteFull TimeResponsibilities:design pipelines, lead engagements, debug outagesRequirements Summary:4+ years in production cloud infra; Kubernetes; Terraform; CI/CD; observability; security fundamentals.Technical Tools Mentioned:Terraform, Pulumi/CDK, GitHub Actions, CircleCI, GitLab, Buildkite, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, OpenTelemetry, Linux, Networking, Containers, Security
Forge is building the world’s first AI-native DevOps workspace, a unified environment that learns from every deployment, automates runbooks, and gives engineers superpowers. We're looking for clear communicators with a breadth of DevOps skills that take pride and ownership in their work. If you crave variety, love green-field challenges, and want to shape the future of AI-powered infrastructure, you’ll thrive here.This job is fully remote.QualificationsAs a Forward Deployed DevOps Engineer, you’ll embed directly with companies, shipping infrastructure that keeps them moving fast without sacrificing reliability, best practices, or security.What you’ll doOwn green-field & brown-field infra. Design, build, and operate CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration, IaC, monitoring, and incident response.Lead “day-zero” engagements. In your first week on a new account, run a lightweight discovery, draft a 30–60–90-day infra plan, and drive exec buy-in.Ship fixes, not tickets. You’ll hold the pager, debug outages, and push code that prevents the next one.Level-up teams. Pair-program, run brownbags, and write concise runbooks so founders can stay focused on product.Feedback-loop back home. Capture patterns from the field to improve our internal tooling and playbooks.You likely have4+ years building and operating production cloud infrastructure.Proven success juggling multiple projects or consulting engagements.Deep experience with at least one major cloud plus Kubernetes.Hands-on Terraform (or Pulumi/CDK) and modern CI/CD (GitHub Actions, CircleCI, GitLab, Buildkite).Observability chops: Prometheus/Grafana, Datadog, OpenTelemetry, etc.Strong fundamentals in networking, Linux, containers, and security.(Titles and exact years matter less than demonstrated skill and learning speed.)Nice-to-havesPrior “forward-deployed” or consulting experience.Experience hardening SOC 2 / ISO 27001 / HIPAA environments.Serverless, data-platform, or multi-cloud routing expertise.Go or Python for bespoke tooling (we use both).