Forward-Deployed Platform Architect: CI/CD & DevSecOps

Hidden Jobs; United States; Remote; USD 160,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary range

Equity & bonus

Remote engagement

Job summary

Hidden Jobs seeks a forward deployed engineer to embed within customer environments, accelerating adoption of an integrated software delivery platform spanning CI/CD, cloud cost management, feature flags, and security modules.

As a hands-on builder and advisor, you will drive platform-centric outcomes, guide architecture decisions, and collaborate with sales and success teams to influence roadmap while delivering measurable improvements in deployment velocity, reliability, cost, and security

Qualifications

• 7+ years in software engineering, solutions architecture, DevOps, or technical consulting roles.
• Background in deeply technical, customer-facing positions such as forward deployed, consulting, or professional services.
• Demonstrated success leading complex implementations and driving measurable customer outcomes.
• Working knowledge across cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and IaC tools (Terraform, CloudFormation), containers and orchestration (Kubernetes, Helm, Kustomize, OpenShift), CI/CD systems (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI), and scripting languages such as Python, Bash, and YAML.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to influence both engineers and senior stakeholders.
• Comfort operating across several technical domains and navigating ambiguity in fast-paced settings.
• Hands-on builder mindset with strong problem-solving skills and a commitment to continuous learning.

Responsibilities

• Embed with customer engineering and platform teams to design, implement, and optimize CI/CD, infrastructure, and DevSecOps workflows tailored to their architectures.
• Lead onboarding, implementation, and enablement programs that accelerate time-to-value across multiple platform modules.
• Architect solutions spanning pipelines, infrastructure, security, and cloud cost management to drive platform-centric adoption rather than point solutions.
• Analyze usage and pipeline data to surface gaps, deliver actionable recommendations, and proactively mitigate adoption or retention risks.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to engineering and platform leadership through technical and business reviews aligned to defined business and technical outcomes.
• Partner with internal product, engineering, sales, and customer success teams to relay customer feedback, shape expansion strategy, and influence roadmap.

Skills

Software engineering

Solutions architecture

DevOps

Technical consulting

Communication

Ambiguity tolerance

Learning mindset

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

Terraform

CloudFormation

Kubernetes

Helm

Kustomize

OpenShift

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Python

Bash

YAML

Job description

Hidden Jobs seeks a forward deployed engineer to embed within customer environments, accelerating adoption of an integrated software delivery platform spanning CI/CD, cloud cost management, feature flags, and security modules.

As a hands-on builder and advisor, you will drive platform-centric outcomes, guide architecture decisions, and collaborate with sales and success teams to influence roadmap while delivering measurable improvements in deployment velocity, reliability, cost, and security