Forward Deployed Engineer
About The Position
Our team develops and delivers commercial-grade AI platforms and applications that support critical missions across the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community, civilian agencies, and commercial organizations. Working at the intersection of cyber and AI, team members build solutions for defensive cyber operations, counter-AI, intelligence, agentic AI, and cyber defense. Day to day, this work may include shaping strategy, architecting solutions, integrating Booz Allen and commercial products into customer environments, supporting presales and customer success, and playing a leading role across forward deployed engineering activities that ensure successful integration of AI solutions with production settings. Team members also have opportunities to partner with industry leaders, including leading cyber companies, frontier model providers, and defense technology startups, through strategic collaborations and go-to-market initiatives. Through this work, the team establishes reusable, gold-standard approaches that allow government customers to adopt secure, scalable AI capabilities as shared services. Our Forward Deployed Engineers will deploy and configure an enterprise defense against AI attackers with precise alerts of agentic threats and extreme denial of AI capabilities. This role will work directly with customers to understand their technical environments, implement containerized components and playbooks, and integrate with existing security tools. The engineer will also troubleshoot deployments, validate system performance, and help translate customer feedback into product and operational improvements. Join us. The world can’t wait.
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience designing, deploying, and troubleshooting DevOps infrastructure across cloud service providers such as AWS, Azure, GCP, and on-premises environments
- 4+ years of experience with container technologies such as Docker, container orchestration, virtual machines, and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) environments
- 3+ years of experience with DevOps and automation platforms such as GitLab, GitHub, Jenkins, ArgoCD, or Flux
- Experience with data routing and integrating new tools into existing technical environments, and designing, implementing, and maintaining CI/CD workflows and DevOps automation platforms
- Experience with network and system troubleshooting across UNIX or Linux environments
- Experience in front-facing or forward-deployed engineering roles
- Knowledge of Python, SDLC, Bash scripting, and basic cybersecurity concepts
- Ability to travel up to 20% of the time
- Ability to obtain a Secret clearance
- Bachelor’s degree in a CS or Engineering field and 2+ years of experience in software engineering, or 6+ years of experience in software engineering in lieu of a degree
Nice To Haves
- Experience developing enterprise cloud-native solutions involving Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, Jenkins, or Azure
- Experience creating and improving continuous automation across multiple technical stacks
- Experience creating and improving continuous deployment tools built on Kubernetes
- Experience triaging and resolving issues related to both open-source and commercial tools in public cloud environments
- Knowledge of scripting languages such as Python and Linux Shell Script
- TS/SCI clearance
- Master’s degree
Responsibilities
- Deploy and configure an enterprise defense against AI attackers with precise alerts of agentic threats and extreme denial of AI capabilities.
- Work directly with customers to understand their technical environments.
- Implement containerized components and playbooks.
- Integrate with existing security tools.
- Troubleshoot deployments.
- Validate system performance.
- Translate customer feedback into product and operational improvements.
- Shape strategy.
- Architect solutions.
- Integrate Booz Allen and commercial products into customer environments.
- Support presales and customer success.
- Play a leading role across forward deployed engineering activities that ensure successful integration of AI solutions with production settings.
- Partner with industry leaders, including leading cyber companies, frontier model providers, and defense technology startups, through strategic collaborations and go-to-market initiatives.
- Establish reusable, gold-standard approaches that allow government customers to adopt secure, scalable AI capabilities as shared services.
Benefits
- health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits
- paid leave
- professional development
- tuition assistance
- work-life programs
- dependent care
- recognition awards program
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
