Forward Deployed Engineer - Field, Hybrid, SC Clearance

Fortice; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Fortice is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer in the United Kingdom. The role blends engineering with embedded consulting, requiring on-site work with customers to translate complex real-world problems into deployed technical solutions.

You’ll tackle ambiguous problems, work across cloud, on-prem, and edge environments, and travel to client sites as needed. Strong Linux, networking, and API skills are essential, with Docker/Kubernetes familiarity a plus.

Qualifications

• Strong background in Linux, networking and APIs.
• Experience deploying and troubleshooting systems across cloud and on-prem.
• Familiar with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Direct customer engagement to understand problems and deliver solutions.
• Comfort handling ambiguous problems and making engineering trade-offs under pressure.

Responsibilities

• Embedding with customers and end users to understand their missions, workflows and constraints.
• Designing and building pragmatic technical solutions across software, APIs, data, infrastructure and networks.
• Rapidly prototyping to test ideas directly with users.
• Owning deployment end-to-end—configuring, integrating, testing and troubleshooting across cloud, on-prem, and edge environments.
• Serving as the feedback loop between customers in the field and Product/Engineering teams.

Skills

Linux

Networking

APIs

Troubleshooting

Customer-facing

Cloud/On-prem

Docker

Kubernetes

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Cloud/On-prem

Job description

Fortice is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer in the United Kingdom. The role blends engineering with embedded consulting, requiring on-site work with customers to translate complex real-world problems into deployed technical solutions.

You’ll tackle ambiguous problems, work across cloud, on-prem, and edge environments, and travel to client sites as needed. Strong Linux, networking, and API skills are essential, with Docker/Kubernetes familiarity a plus.