Senior ANZ Forward Deploy Engineer and Platform Owner

Armada; Alice Springs; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Armada is seeking a Senior Forward Deploy Engineer for ANZ to own hands-on deployment and long-term technical account ownership across Australia and New Zealand. You will lead platform bring-up, configure systems, and drive production readiness while coordinating with cross-functional teams to ensure secure, compliant operations.

In this role you will maintain Joint Success Plans, accelerate time-to-value, and foster customer trust through strong governance, risk management and proactive

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in infrastructure, platform engineering, SRE, forward‑deployed engineering, or technical account roles.
• Proven ability to own both hands‑on delivery and long‑term customer technical relationships.
• Deep technical expertise across Linux, networking, Kubernetes, storage, and GPU‑accelerated compute.
• Strong troubleshooting skills in live, production environments.
• Experience supporting enterprise customers across Australia and or New Zealand.
• Willingness to travel across ANZ as required.
• Clear, confident communication style suited for executive and senior engineering audiences.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end deployment of Armada platforms including Atlas, Galleon with AEP, and Leviathan AI Factory integrated with Bridge GPU‑as‑a‑Service
• Execute deployments across the ND8 region, including multi‑country and multi‑site environments
• Own infrastructure bring‑up, platform configuration, and production readiness validation
• Make real‑time technical decisions across hardware, networking, Kubernetes, storage, and GPU layers
• Serve as the primary technical point of contact for assigned ANZ customers post go‑live
• Own the technical success plan, adoption milestones, and operational maturity roadmap
• Build trusted, long‑term relationships with customer engineering, IT, platform, and security teams
• Lead technical governance discussions, roadmap planning, and platform optimization conversations

Skills

Linux

Networking

Kubernetes

Storage

GPU-accelerated compute

SRE

Troubleshooting

Edge compute

Tools

Bridge GPUaaS

Atlas

Galleon

AEP

Job description

Armada is seeking a Senior Forward Deploy Engineer for ANZ to own hands-on deployment and long-term technical account ownership across Australia and New Zealand. You will lead platform bring-up, configure systems, and drive production readiness while coordinating with cross-functional teams to ensure secure, compliant operations.

In this role you will maintain Joint Success Plans, accelerate time-to-value, and foster customer trust through strong governance, risk management and proactive