Enterprise Deployment Architect - Infra & Cloud

OpenTalent; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Sierra is seeking a Forward Deployed Infrastructure Engineer to own end-to-end customer deployments and shape how Sierra’s AI platform is deployed in enterprise environments. You will architect, deploy, upgrade, and manage infrastructure while ensuring security, compliance, and operational excellence.

You will collaborate with Engineering, Product, Sales, and Customer Success, defining scalable deployment strategies and building repeatable processes for complex engagements across customer

Qualifications

• 4+ years in infrastructure, DevOps, or solutions architecture with customer-facing deployment work.
• Deep experience with AWS, Terraform, container orchestration, and cloud networking (VPCs, IAM, DNS).
• Proven deployments in customer-owned cloud environments, navigating security reviews and compliance.
• Strong change-management mindset for upgrades, rollbacks, monitoring and failure modes.

Responsibilities

• Own deployment architecture conversations and execution — designing and implementing deployment strategies across customer environments, including VPC configuration, permissioning, networking, and infrastructure provisioning.
• Manage the full infrastructure lifecycle for some of Sierra’s most critical customers: initial deployment, ongoing upgrades, scaling, and incident support.
• Develop and maintain deployment runbooks, upgrade procedures, and automation tooling to make operations repeatable and reliable.
• Partner with engineering teams to ensure Sierra's platform is deployable and operable across diverse customer environments.

Skills

AWS

Terraform

Container orchestration

Cloud networking

Tools

Terraform

Job description

Sierra is seeking a Forward Deployed Infrastructure Engineer to own end-to-end customer deployments and shape how Sierra’s AI platform is deployed in enterprise environments. You will architect, deploy, upgrade, and manage infrastructure while ensuring security, compliance, and operational excellence.

You will collaborate with Engineering, Product, Sales, and Customer Success, defining scalable deployment strategies and building repeatable processes for complex engagements across customer