Remote Forward-Deployed DevOps Engineer (AI-Driven Infra)

a37; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Forge is building the world’s first AI-native DevOps workspace. We’re seeking clear communicators with broad DevOps skills who take ownership of their work. This fully remote role calls for experience shipping production infrastructure and leading day-zero engagements across multiple accounts.

You will design, build, and operate CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration, IaC, and observability tooling while guiding teams and driving reliability, security, and best practices across engagements.

Qualifications

• 4+ years building and operating production cloud infrastructure.
• Proven success juggling multiple projects or consulting engagements.
• Deep experience with at least one major cloud plus Kubernetes.
• Hands-on Terraform (or Pulumi/CDK) and modern CI/CD (GitHub Actions, CircleCI, GitLab, Buildkite).
• Observability chops: Prometheus/Grafana, Datadog, OpenTelemetry, etc.
• Strong fundamentals in networking, Linux, containers, and security.
• Titles and exact years matter less than demonstrated skill and learning speed.

Responsibilities

• Own green-field & brown-field infra. Design, build, and operate CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration, IaC, monitoring, and incident response.
• Lead “day-zero” engagements. In your first week on a new account, run a lightweight discovery, draft a 30-60-90-day infra plan, and drive exec buy-in.
• Ship fixes, not tickets. You’ll hold the pager, debug outages, and push code that prevents the next one.
• Level-up teams. Pair-program, run brownbags, and write concise runbooks so founders can stay focused on product.
• Feedback-loop back home. Capture patterns from the field to improve our internal tooling and playbooks.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure

Kubernetes

Terraform

Pulumi/CDK

CI/CD pipelines

GitHub Actions

CircleCI

GitLab CI

Buildkite

Observability

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

OpenTelemetry

Networking

Linux

Containers

Security

Go

Python

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

Pulumi/CDK

GitHub Actions

CircleCI

GitLab CI

Buildkite

Job description

Forge is building the world’s first AI-native DevOps workspace. We’re seeking clear communicators with broad DevOps skills who take ownership of their work. This fully remote role calls for experience shipping production infrastructure and leading day-zero engagements across multiple accounts.

You will design, build, and operate CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration, IaC, and observability tooling while guiding teams and driving reliability, security, and best practices across engagements.