Engineering Manager: Frontline Deployment & Cloud Infra

Cohere; Dubai; On-site; AED 441,000 - 1,194,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Lunch stipend

Health benefits

RRSP matching/401K

Parental leave

Enrichment benefits

Vacation 6 weeks

Office travel

Home office stipend

Job summary

Cohere is a leading security-first enterprise AI company seeking an Engineering Manager to lead Forward Deployed Engineers in deploying Cohere's North platform into customer environments.

This role requires hands-on leadership, driving deployments from private cloud to on-prem, and mentoring a team to deliver impact. You will collaborate with Product, Engineering and Sales to scale solutions for enterprises.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with demonstrated leadership.
• Hands-on experience deploying enterprise software at scale.
• Strong expertise in cloud infrastructure (Azure, AWS, GCP).
• Experience with Kubernetes, Helm, and CI/CD pipelines.
• High agency — you dont wait for permission to solve problems
• A doer mentality — you dig in and get stuff done
• Experience managing engineers in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
• Excellent communication skills in English.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of Forward Deployed Engineers
• Drive end-to-end deployment of North in private cloud and on-premises environments
• Take ownership of customer success from technical implementation through delivery
• Collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, and Sales to shape how we deliver AI to enterprises
• Mentor your team on cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, and enterprise-grade deployments
• Optimize performance for OpenSearch, databases, and other K8s services
• Define scaling guidelines for GPU and CPU compute resources
• Build processes & technology that scales — were growing fast.

Skills

Leadership

Deploy at scale

Cloud infrastructure

Kubernetes

Helm

CI/CD

Proactiveness

People management

English communication

Tools

Kubernetes

Helm

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Cohere is a leading security-first enterprise AI company seeking an Engineering Manager to lead Forward Deployed Engineers in deploying Cohere's North platform into customer environments.

This role requires hands-on leadership, driving deployments from private cloud to on-prem, and mentoring a team to deliver impact. You will collaborate with Product, Engineering and Sales to scale solutions for enterprises.