Senior Forward Deployed Engineer - Infra Deployment Lead

Stem IT; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Stem IT is seeking a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to join a fast-growing cyber security team in the DC area. You will lead customer deployments for the Forward Deployed Engineering team and help scale the practice while evolving into a hands-on manager.

The role requires 8+ years in platform, DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering, plus hands-on experience with Kubernetes in air-gapped environments, Helm, Terraform, and major cloud providers.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of Platform, DevOps, SRE, and/or Infrastructure engineering experience.
• Experience with Helm, Terraform, CI/CD, and any of the major cloud providers.
• Scripting experience with Python and Bash.
• Ability to operate in a fast paced environment.
• Experience with bare-metal Kubernetes deployments in air-gapped environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead customer deployments for the FDE team.
• Scale and guide the deployment engineering effort for critical infrastructure.
• Support transition toward a hands-on manager of the team.

Skills

Platform engineering

DevOps

SRE

Python

Bash

Fast-paced environment adaptation

Tools

Helm

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

AWS

Azure

GCP

Kubernetes

Job description

Stem IT is seeking a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to join a fast-growing cyber security team in the DC area. You will lead customer deployments for the Forward Deployed Engineering team and help scale the practice while evolving into a hands-on manager.

The role requires 8+ years in platform, DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering, plus hands-on experience with Kubernetes in air-gapped environments, Helm, Terraform, and major cloud providers.