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Must have6
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
Nice to have4
Prior forward-deployed or consulting experience
Experience hardening SOC 2 / ISO 27001 / HIPAA environments
Serverless, data-platform, or multi-cloud routing expertise
Go or Python for bespoke tooling (we use both)
Skills
Terraform
Pulumi
CDK
GitHub Actions
CircleCI
GitLab
Buildkite
Prometheus
Grafana
Datadog
OpenTelemetry
Kubernetes
Go
Python
AWS
About the company
Forge is building the world’s first AI-native DevOps workspace, a unified environment that learns from every deployment, automates runbooks, and gives engineers superpowers. We’re looking for clear communicators with a breadth of DevOps skills that take pride and ownership in their work. If you crave variety, love green-field challenges, and want to shape the future of AI-powered infrastructure, you’ll thrive here.
This job is fully remote.
Qualifications
About the role
As a Forward Deployed DevOps Engineer, you’ll embed directly with companies, shipping infrastructure that keeps them moving fast without sacrificing reliability, best practices, or security.
What you’ll do
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Own green-field & brown-field infra. Design, build, and operate CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration, IaC, monitoring, and incident response.
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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.
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Ship fixes, not tickets. You’ll hold the pager, debug outages, and push code that prevents the next one.
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Level-up teams. Pair-program, run brownbags, and write concise runbooks so founders can stay focused on product.
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Feedback-loop back home. Capture patterns from the field to improve our internal tooling and playbooks.
You likely have
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4+ years building and operating production cloud infrastructure.
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Proven success juggling multiple projects or consulting engagements.
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Deep experience with at least one major cloud plus Kubernetes.
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Hands-on Terraform (or Pulumi/CDK) and modern CI/CD (GitHub Actions, CircleCI, GitLab, Buildkite).
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Observability chops: Prometheus/Grafana, Datadog, OpenTelemetry, etc.
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Strong fundamentals in networking, Linux, containers, and security.
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(Titles and exact years matter less than demonstrated skill and learning speed.)
Nice-to-haves
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Prior “forward-deployed” or consulting experience.
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Experience hardening SOC 2 / ISO 27001 / HIPAA environments.
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Serverless, data-platform, or multi-cloud routing expertise.
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Go or Python for bespoke tooling (we use both).
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