Software Engineer

Fortice; United Kingdom; Híbrido; GBP 65.000 - 85.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

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.

Formación

• 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.

Responsabilidades

• 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.

Conocimientos

Linux

Networking

APIs

Troubleshooting

Customer-facing

Cloud/On-prem

Docker

Kubernetes

Herramientas

Docker

Kubernetes

Cloud/On-prem

Descripción del empleo

Must hold current SC Clearance minimum (DV preferred).

Please note that we can only consider sole British Citizens for this role.

The hottest new job role in Tech - The Forward Deployed Engineer.

We're working with one of Europe's fastest-scaling technology companies in the sensing, AI, and communications space.

This is a genuinely hybrid role: part engineer, part embedded consultant. You'll spend significant time on-site with customers, in their operational environments, turning complex real-world problems into deployed technical capability. It's not a role for engineers who want to stay behind a desk shipping features against a fixed spec. The requirements here are ambiguous, environments are challenging, and you'll be trusted to work it out alongside the people using the product.

What you'll actually be doing:

• Embedding with customers and end users to understand their missions, workflows and technical constraints — often before anyone's written a requirement down
• 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 potentially disconnected/edge environments
• Acting as the feedback loop between customers in the field and the Product/Engineering teams back home

What we're looking for:

• Solid grounding in Linux, networking, APIs and modern software practices
• Real experience deploying and troubleshooting systems across cloud and/or on-prem environments
• Familiarity with Docker/Kubernetes
• A track record of working directly with customers to understand problems and deliver solutions — not just build against someone else's brief
• Comfort owning ambiguous problems end-to-end, and making sound engineering trade-offs under pressure

Nice-to-haves: experience in live operational or mission-critical environments, AI/ML or geospatial/data engineering exposure, work in disconnected or bandwidth-constrained settings, or a background in defense, NS and emergency services or critical infrastructure.

Expect travel to customer site.

Salary is flexible for the right person. £65-85k, with room to go higher depending on experience.

If this sounds like you or you know someone who fits the bill then get in touch.